Vintage Vanderbilt Packard picture found?
You may recall the article on the unusual 1934 Packard Rollston town car that appeared in Old Cars Weekly and this website here. While writing that article, I knew I…
You may recall the article on the unusual 1934 Packard Rollston town car that appeared in Old Cars Weekly and this website here. While writing that article, I knew I had seen a picture of a similar car on eBay, but I could not find it anywhere. Well, as my luck goes, I found the photo again after the story ran and picked it up to share with OCW readers.
That wire photo, shown here, dates to 1937. The caption on the back reads:
Bache Home to House Bache Art Gift to Gotham
View of the home of Jules S. Bache on Fifth Avenue, which will be reuilt as a museum to house the $30,000,000 art collection which the noted philanthropist and banker has donated to New York City. The Bache Art Collection is rated among the finest in the world of private groups.
There's no mention of the 1934 Packard town car, unfortunately, but it sure looks suspiciously similar to the car in the OCW article, and after conferring with Packard historian Jim Pearsall, he agrees it might be the very same car in the article. And if it's not, well, the sight of a 1934 Packard is never hard on the eyes.
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Angelo Van Bogart is the editor of Old Cars magazine and wrote the column "Hot Wheels Hunting" for Toy Cars & Models magazine for several years. He has authored several books including "Hot Wheels 40 Years," "Hot Wheels Classics: The Redline Era" and "Cadillac: 100 Years of Innovation." His 2023 book "Inside the Duesenberg SSJ" is his latest. He can be reached at avanbogart@aimmedia.com
