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The Royal Yugoslavian modders were adept in all tricks of the trade. What a radiator mascot! Click to enlarge.



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Another valuable Packard, which made it over the Balkan mountains. Marshal Tito himself seems to be at the steering wheel.


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pic #1: wikipedia
pic # 2, 3: www.politikin-zabavnik.rs, obviously based on a video, taken 1940]

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A 22nd series Super Eight convertible Victoria in Golden Green metallic, alleged to be an ex-Tito car, still exists in Yugoslavia(?) as of a year or so ago. Perhaps the pictures I have of it came from you, Gusha?

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From me it came in monochrome, which could act as a first base to prove the genuineness.

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Its Belgrade license plate seems to partly confirm your assumption. The Serbian company HAKO claims to have it restored.
Investigating the connections between Packard and Tito means to descend into a bottomless pit. Here comes one of his armored cars (I know at least five).


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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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