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Gorgeous yet elegant, and in a rational, small package. No mean feat, among the reasons the new One Twenty well outsold LaSalle, Zephyr and all other price class competitors as the outsized, high hat senior models of Packard, Cadillac, Lincoln were already rapidly fading.

Packard never made a better car, certainly not from a driver's standpoint. The 120 certainly did n o t harm Packard's imagine at all; if anything buoyed it. Most able to afford any new car saw the One Twenty as what it was, a stand-alone, separate, junior car but very much a Packard. Many buyers able to afford a big Packard or Pierce, but wanting something sportier, more manueverable, chose a One Twenty.

The '37 six, on the other hand, was a mistake, if understandable after years of Depression uncertainty with ex-GM production men brought in to cost the 120 increasingly running the show. The six should've been called a Packardette or Macauley, etc.

The 120, however, was a gem, and no better showroom bait than yours.

Thank you for all of your kind words. I do feel like I won a lottery getting this car and now finishing her and driving around in her. It was a wish that became real with a search on AutoTrader for a 'coupe' and the luck to trip over a coupe convertible and a Packard at that!
Then to find this site and be guided by all the combined knowledge of you helpful people here and the huge database was another godsend.
Timing was fortuitous too, as Kanter has pretty much sold out of all their Packard products, and now the huge cross border penalties for being Canadian would pretty much put the kybosh on any pie-in-the-sky dreams started today.
Drove all around town yesterday while my brother and I did some business and she is her own car show wherever we went!
The image below is from Wednesday's tour down to the Warplane Museum with John and Linda's 28 Model A beside her.
Take care,
Bob Johnston

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