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With hat tips to Sasha Hadzic in Serbia and "Packard Truck Dave":
56packardman.com/2019/05/14/gear-head-tuesday-josip-titos-packard/

The '48 Packard Super Eight Victoria once owned by Yugoslav Communist dictator Josip Broz "Tito" was found and restored.

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It's funny how most dictators had Packards. Except for Hitler. No accounting for taste.

Steve

Wasn't the original owner Tito Puente? I don't think communists had new cars.

<i>"Wasn't the original owner Tito Puente? I don't think communists had new cars."</i>

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Joe - Tito was one of many Communists that had (ahem) Capitalist taste in cars.
Besides the Packard, which he kept, other cars in his "stable" included 3 Mercedes 600 Limousines. Tito's lavish lifestyle caused no small amount of turmoil and dissidents were quickly - and usually brutally - jailed.


Also see:56packardman.com/2017/03/13/gear-head-tu ... des-amarillo-and-gina-lollobrigida/

Another photo of the Tito Super 8 from about 10 years ago.

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<i>"Another photo of the Tito Super 8 from about 10 years ago."
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Thank you for posting this!

"Owen_Dyneto" supplied us with more photos of Tito's Packard. Also, "Disaffected Musings" snapped shots of Packards at Hershey this past weekend.

56packardman.com/2019/06/11/gear-head-tuesday-more-photos-of-titos-packard/

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For someone who could probably have wrangled any car it is curious he opted for a "lesser" model. I would have thought a Custom Eight would have been more fitting his lifestyle or could it be the choice of the Super was more to show he was still one of the people.

<i>"For someone who could probably have wrangled any car it is curious he opted for a "lesser" model. I would have thought a Custom Eight would have been more fitting his lifestyle or could it be the choice of the Super was more to show he was still one of the people."</i>

Indeed! At the original post, there is a photo of him walking in front of the Packard during a parade on a state visit. No barricades, either.

It occurred to me that availability (or lack thereof) of the Custom Super Eight Victoria might have been a reason behind the selection of the Super Eight.

In later years, he had three Mercedes 600s in his "stable".