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The above shown armored Packard is one of many cars in a Yugoslav museum, dedicated to Tito. It houses another Packard, here a tourist photo.

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"This 1926 Packard Limousine (VIN 96824) was first purchased by General Tiburcio Carias Andino, who later became President of Honduras. .. the General was inaugurated in this car when he became the President of Honduras in 1932."

Okay, Mr. Andino became two times President of Honduras, 1923 as well as 1933, so either he protracted the stay in his Packard longer than commonly known or he started early the extensive preparations for being inaugurated.





pictures sources
pic #1 - histounahblog.wordpress.com
pic # 2 - ebay item number: 261570453688

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General Andino, hadn't been a real General without loving tanks. He even drove a 1938 Packard tank, received as a gift from nobody less than Franklin D. Roosevelt, if the Honduran newspaper El Heraldo is to believed. According to this and other sources, the gift was intended as expression of thanks for the Honduran participation in both world wars. The Honduran declaration of war dated 12.12.1941 and I've certain difficulties to believe, that Mr. Roosevelt was a second-hand car dealer. None of the Honduran soldiers had ever partaken in the world wars. So there is something wrong. Is it a 1938 model?

pictures sources
pic #1 - El Heraldo Oct 10, 2014
pic #2 - El Heraldo Oct 3, 2014

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I take particular note of the crooked bumper of Tito's Packard 12.

Please take note of the embrasure.


picture source: ruta5hn.com

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"...In the 1930s, Chilean dictator (later elected president) Carlos Ib??ez del Campo outfitted his 1928 Packard limo ... with wheels that could ride the rails between Santiago and the southern city of Puerto Montt..."

There had been at least three railated threads:
- in 2008: Canadian Pacific Railway Inspection Packards
- in 2012: how to rail a Packard
- in 2014: For the Zis fan with everything...

sources
quotation - southernconeguidebooks
pic #1 - museoferroviariotemuco.cl
pic #2 to #4 - patrimonioferroviariochileno.cl

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The car had a hard life and served on rails until 1987. Since 2004 the 533 lives on a small pension in a Chilean railroad museum.

Intermediate state
A world map has been attached to illustrated the countries, whose government leaders (regardless of wether kings, dictators, elected Presidents, founder of the states or otherwise came to power), preferred to drive Packard or Packard cousins.



sources
data - autocarril.cl
pic #1 - museoferroviariotemuco.cl
pics 2 & 3 - patrimonioferroviariochileno.cl

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This is the story of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, who died on 11 September, 1948.
The below displayed postcard shows his Packard with chromed headlamps but painted radiator frame. I believe to prefer it contrariwise. The second photograph shows the same ...Cadillac. The top looks like made of leather.


pictures sources
pic #1: delcampe.net
pic #2: pakteahouse.net
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"...1939 Packard twelve, model 1708, seventeenth series, 12-cylinder, 175-horsepower, 139-inch wheelbase, 5/6-person special parade car, built for White House fleet. Official reception parade in Washington D.C. for their majesties King George VI (in lead car with President Roosevelt) & Queen Elizabeth (in second car with Mrs. Roosevelt), during 1939 state visit..."

This thread already houses photographs of this car here and there. Dave (O_D) added on another occasion that:

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Today a snippet, older than half a century.


sources
photo - Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
data - Smithsonian files
snippet - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 1, 1961
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Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III, well, that's quite a titel. As spritual leader of more than 15 million people the Aga Khan is not literally part of the predetermined circle in the proper meaning of the word "statesmen" but such a car is ticket into almost every circle. Agreed?



[picture source: detroithistorical.wordpress.com] Click to enlarge!

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