[Closed] Wish list musings: No Packards? Have we really reproduced all of these great old beauties

Actually Packards from 1930 to 1958 are quite well covered.

I just completed an article on CCCA classic Packards that should appear in the March issue of THE DIECAST MAGAZINE and am working on a non-classic(mostly 1948 on) that will likely be in the June issue.

Packards, actually we could do with

some from the 20s, and even earlier,
Neo are doing one (this year?) a Standard 733 from 1930,
which will make a change from the later years.

I agree with you, Kenneth. But support for these early ones is scant. Do you have a candidate?

I agree with David. For all the talk of pre-1920 cars, I'm surprised not to see any...

They're just in general not my thing with a handful of exceptions, so even if I had held off and voted for someone else's car, I'd probably not have voted for one, but all the "we need pre-1920" cars talk, I was expecting about half the list to be pre-1920.

By the way, I see we have two different model 1961 Dodge Darts that quite a bit of voting money went into (if you combine both models, they go directly into second place!). Again, I'm regretting casting my votes for the two DeSotos; the '61 Dodge Dart Seneca (bottom of the line) was the '61 DeSoto Diplomat for the South African and Australian markets (although the Diplomat had two-tone paint, the Phoenix's front clip, and optional extra chrome) if you flip the steering wheel around and rebadge it and the 1961 Dodge Dart Phoenix 2 Door (top of the line) was sold in Australia in RHD as the "sports" version of the DeSoto Diplomat (although it was slightly rebadged; the word "Dart" was deleted from badging and it was called the Dodge RD4 Phoenix). With the huge amount of support for a '61 Dart of some kind, you could simply reuse the castings for a South African/Australian/New Zealand '61 DeSoto Diplomat or Aussie '61 Dodge Phoenix (which did see some importation to South Africa as well, I believe).

How about a 1916-21 Packard Twin Six...

You young whippersnappers may not remember this but it was the original Twin Six that made the company famous for its quality and innovation. There wasn't anything else on the market like it at the time. That was how Packard made its reputation!

You may remember that Minimarque did a 1932 Twin Six. Great stuff, but that was a much later development than the original Twin Six that's represented in quite a few automotive museums.

As far as measurable and photographible examples go, you have your choice of a panoply of well-preserved examples in museums and some lovely private collection cars. There are amazing limousines, town cars, tourers and phaetons to choose from.

A model like this would give you and visitors to your miniature collection a more complete picture of the Packard Motorcar Company. It's fun to learn the history of the cars from their miniatures.

It would also be sort of obvious to have a model of the Model B from 1900 or "Old Pacific", the car that went on a famous journey across America in 1903, both from the Packard Museum in Warren Ohio.

It's always seemed strange to me that we have a glut of models from the period when Packard was failing, and making obese, unwanted cars in the mid-50s, while ignoring the cars that made Packard famous and respected.

Yeah, I know, nobody's interested in these models, nobody cares. I've heard it all before. So, we'll leave it at that.

Sounds great, Scott. And I have a hunch the Packard Museum would be interested in the results.

Early Packards, I agree with you 100%, about fifteen years ago I was discussing early Packards with the late Richard Briggs of Minimarque 43 fame, and he mentioned to me that he was considering a pre 1920 Packard that was owned by a silent screen actress, now I can't remember her name it was something like ..... Heald, or Herd, now she apparently liked to bathe in milk, and her Packard was white, I did have a Packard book at the time (I think it was a Dalton Watson publication) but unfortunately I don't have it now, but it did show an image of the actress standing beside her Packard. The car would have made a great addition to the MM43 range. Perhaps a Forum 43 member could check their motoring libraries and see if they have this particular book.

Packards, no John, I don't have a canditate yet but you never know now as there are many new firms now making all kinds of superb resincast models, so we live in hope, but not just for Packards but for many more "early" cars and less 60s, 70s, and 80s cars.

Packards, sorry David, I called you John I must have got carried away, (another senior moment)
apologies again.