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John, to make a long story short, as to me ... (o=III=o) ≥ (o:III:o)


Don't know if it works on your side but that's an attempt at Soviet adaptation on the 1942 tombstone design:

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To hedge one's bets.





[picture source:http://www.clubhotrod.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2340&size=big9]

I was in Iceland twice this summer, on my way to and from London Heathrow. As far as I could tell it is a cold, gray rock in the north Atlantic. It was late August and it was like Michigan is now, minus the snow.

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MrPB, You have volcanoes in Michigan or is it just that the Rouge plant smoke makes it appear that way?

Two things:
1. The first Packard being shipped to Iceland, if I remember correctly, was a LeBaron limousine.

2. If I was to restore a senior 1942 Packard and was forced to use the wrong hub caps (and most are forced to because they are unavailable), I think I'd opt for the 1941 180 hub caps vs the ones that were put on this car. At least the 1941 hub caps would look correct when viewing the car in profile.

Morning all,

Our own President Of Ireland, Eamonn Valera, born New York City 1883, preferred American cars for his own personal transportation.

The State car was/is a Rolls-Royce with a body by Hooper & Son Coachbuilders of London. However, de Valera did not want to copy the British Royals in his personal life so the he aquired a Packard.

I do not know which model it was, but along with the Bishop of Galway, they were the only notable Packard owners I know of in Ireland. (apart from myself, of course!)

Sl?n,

Pat.

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Well, Ike wasn't a close friend of Packard. All the more surprising when Nikita parked a Soviet Packard with red flag as hood ornament right under his nose.

[picture source: L'espresso 11/1955]

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The 1941/1942 Packard prewar design was ageing in the postwar mid fifties but did its representative job admidst the fresh and slimline cars. The picture shows the ZIS of Mr. Kekkonen, the eighth President of Finland in 1957. My read is that the more modern cars are a brand new 1957 Cadillac Series 75 Limousine, a 1955 Imperial Crown and a ZIM GAZ-12.

[picture source: Helsingin Sanomat]; Aug 19, 1957

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A small red hexagon reveals that the Finnish car is in good hands.

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Guscha

Tatra spotted !


John Harley