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No, it's not a Packard...but I know that many who lurk here appreciate all classic cars.

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1928-Stutz-Coupe ... hash=item231ae0ecf7#ht_28312wt_1165

Funky coupe. The bumpers look out of place to me. Anyone else see this?

it's nice, but it wouldn't make my top ten. and bumper is a bit off. trunk lid is great looks like some custom job.

Faith and begorrah, beauty be a personal matter. That Stutz is right jaunty for its year, but in my 'umble opine, agree with the previous gents 'bout the distracting bumper. And the runningboards are a mite wide, further distract from the car's lines. It looks a little like a Railton 8, assuming they ever made such a coupe.

According to Maurice Hendry, Howard Reed, a Packard engine designer and Buick alumnus, tried during the late '30s to sell Packard management on not just overhead valves, but an overhead camshaft engine, something seen domestically in only Duesenberg and Stutz in that decade. Reed was told such a valve train's noise would be unseemly in a Packard.
Further afield, Fred Duesenberg had wanted to build something closer to his Model A Duesenberg's size, which is about that of the above Stutz. But E. L. Cord insisted on excess. The outsized and rapidly obsolete Model J was the result, which of course led to the more rationally sized 1936-37 Duesenberg One-Twenty-- oops, um, Cord 810/812. (Which shares a couple engine accessories with the early Packard 120.)

We Packardites are catholic in our tastes, which is why we own Packards. We know what's out there. But, thought i'd try to tie the above car to our realm.

Dutch Darrin, both with Hibbard and then Fernandez, cloaked a fair amount of Stutzes as well as Packards.