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Anyone ever heard of Broadwater, 91 Avenue des Champs-Elysies, Paris? A new one to me; I inquired of Walt Gosden (long-time author of the column "Coachwork Lines") and checked the other usual sites and books, came up empty. Image from the Jan. 2014 cover of the CCCA Bulletin.

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Hi Dave

That Broadwater Coachworks CCCA Bulletin cover sent me checking sources too and I came up dry as well. The most obscure of the obscure, if there are degrees of such. The Packard looks to be a 1927 343, but I'll defer to the pre-war experts.

Of that styling, it has details consistent with other French coachbuilders of the time i.e. coach pillar cowl treatment, curved door bottoms, door seam battens, rounded upper treatment without belt mouldings, four section windshield, all found on bodies by Proux, Saoutchik and others. All in all, a very striking, sophisticated close-coupled sport sedan. Certainly, it must have been entered in the concours d'elegances of that year by it's owner. Hope it somehow survives.

Steve