What Is Your Best Late 40'S Packard ???????

The Motor City '49 convertible?

To be built when the new Brooklin Models factory opens, but it is already my favorite Packard.

Harv, I've got that model in that color but with the top up. I also have the top down version in turquoise. Fabulous models from MOC.

One of my favorites: the Packard Balboa dream car, by Mini Marque, 22 of 350

And here's another favorite, the Brooklin model of a 1954 Henney-built Packard station wagon for the LARGE family.

But to more exactly answer your query, Nickies, I'm going out on a limb.  Lower price range, less weight, and a style that never became American mainstream, here is my suggestion for your late '40's Packard:  the Packard Super Deluxe Club Sedan 1949 by NEO.  I really like this model.

@d-m-holcombe I went for the CMF 1947 Packard Custom Super Clipper Club Sedan. Sorry for the picture quality.

Good choice, Nickles.  I have the similar BRK version and like it.

Good choice, that is a nice one.

Yes, good choice and I wondered if you would go for that one. Here are pics of mine.

Good choice!! 

@mg-harv WOW!!! I love that one.

My best is a Brooklin 1947 Packard Super Clipper Club Sedan in a subtle grey tutone.

   While all these Packard collectors are following Nickles' original question, I have a small question about one of my older Packard models.  Here is the model:

My question is of the origins of this model.  It seems to be either a Dinky replica or very similar to such.  The DGM might refer to Dave Gilbert Models, an English firm  that is usually Dave Gilbert Models instead of this car's DGM, even though I have seen Dave Gilbert M.  As is evident, this is quite a simple construction with no interior, no window glass, and little detailing, unlike Dave Gilbert Models.  Yet it is beautifully cast, very competently assembled, and quite faithful to the circa 1930 Packard in appearance.  This model and others of a similar nature sometimes appear on eBay England.  Words of their origin differ.   Does anyone have the whole story?

PS-  If I have the original box, it's lost in storage out in the workshop. David H

@d-m-holcombe 

Hi David,

I was going to do a feature on this one next week but here it is now. Here are a few images of mine.

A DGM (Dave Gilbert Models or DG Models) hand-built white metal in the Dinky Style. He also made models under the Autocraft label.These models were produced I believe in the 1980’s onward, and were initially based on Dinky Toys. They are usually listed as 'O' Gauge rather than 1/43.

I have quite a few with my main interest being the Jaguar issues. Mine are all in dark blue boxes  or brown cardboard with a white DG Models label and a black and white image of the model, although early ones were often in unlabelled white boxes. My initial ones, like the early Pirate models were exact copies of Dinky pre-War vehicles, hard to tell, other than weight and base changes from the originals. Later, Dave made his own models in the traditional Dinky style.

I'll dig out my DGM Jaguars at some point and add them to the Jaguar Theme.

Thanks, David.  You have authenticated what I had gathered, and I appreciate it.  This is the only DMG I have.   I look forward to seeing your Jaguars.