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This recently came across my screen via an email from a classmate of mine. It's a 1937 Packard, the only one built. The couple standing by it are the owners.

http://s1180.photobucket.com/u...erwechter/slideshow/

He bought it for $16,000 about 10 months ago. It had been in a garage for many many years.
He polished and waxed it and put on a clear coat of paint. Did some minor engine work and it started right up.

It has 40,000 miles on the speedometer.

Word is he was offered $300,000 but didn't take it. No way to verify, but interesting, nonetheless.

Lou
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Unique and beautiful, what a find!


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ROTFLMAO Hey Lou, What is the Kelly Blue Book or National Automotive Dealers Association [NADA] value on that there rig? ROTFLMAO
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Oddly enough, my grandfather had a Packard Sportsman (a rare I6 engine). His son, my uncle, had a '36 sport coupe, which as a 3-year old, with my grandmother, rode in it from Atlantic City to Miami for the uncle's wedding.

I spent most of the trip luxuriating on the hat shelf.


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would have been called a "House Car".
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