Packard One Eighty

While visiting Jerome, Arizona, a very cool little town, by the way, I came across the rusting hulk of a once magnificent car. Even clad in varying... more

by Karyn Robinson

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Packard One Eighty

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Karyn Robinson

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While visiting Jerome, Arizona, a very cool little town, by the way, I came across the rusting hulk of a once magnificent car. Even clad in varying shades of orange and bits of her original deep blue, she was stunning. Like a glamorous movie vixen of the 1940's she was built like a battleship and you could never look away. Not that you'd want to.

I loved the type-face Packard used, at once both sophisticated and hip. A logo that said, "I'm elegant" to the ladies, and "Let's roll" to the men.

The name plate is all that remains to tell us who she was. Her exact history will forever remain a mystery.


From Wikipedia:

The Packard 180 was introduced for the 1940 model year by the Packard Motor Car Company to replace the discontinued V-12 as their top-of-the-line luxury model. The correct name of the model was Custom Super Eight One-Eighty. The car was derived from the Packard Super Eight One-Sixty with which it shared the complete running gear including the in-line eight-cylinder, 356-cubic-inch (5,830 cc) engine that developed 160 horsepower. It was advertised as the most powerful eight-cylinder engine offered by any automobile manufacturer in 1940. (By contrast, the Cadillac 346 cubic inch V-8 developed 150 hp).

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December 23rd, 2014