Eric Minoff
Vice President, Head of Department - US
LOT 226
1929 Packard Custom Eight 640 Touring Engine no. 172900
Sold for US$25,760 inc. premium
Lot 226
1929 Packard Custom Eight 640 Touring
1929 Packard Custom Eight 640 Touring
Engine no. 172900
Engine no. 172900
384ci L-Head Inline 8-Cylinder Engine
Single Carburetor
105bhp at 3,200rpm
3-Speed Manual Transmission
Semi-Elliptic Leaf Springs Front and Rear
4-Wheel Drum Brakes
*In single-family ownership for nearly 90 years
*Stored away for more than half a century
*Desirable open Touring sixth-series Packard
*CCCA Full Classic™
THE 1929 PACKARD EIGHT
1929 brought substantial change to Packard's products, notably a new Standard Eight line which replaced the earlier Twin Six models. These sixth-series Packard's were among the most attractive and imposing of the Classic Era, with long hoods, sweeping fenders and large oval-backed headlights (a one-year-only feature). With seven main bearings and a rigid one-piece cylinder block casting, it was quiet enough that it impressed even the notoriously finicky road testers at The Autocar in England who noted that "... the big car has the power of traveling right up to a high speed without fuss, without suggestion that the engine is doing much work, without harshness, yet with plenty still in reserve."
THE MOTORCAR OFFERED
This charming barn-find Packard is an extortionately complete example of the desirable 7-Passenger Touring variant. According to the chassis plate mounted on the firewall, the Packard was delivered new on October 24th, 1929 -more commonly referred to as 'Black Thursday'- The first day of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. The selling dealer was Plemmons Motor Co. and the first owner was Mr. Frank Barnard. Mr. Barnard was in the lumber business, and as business got tough and the Packard too expansive to run, he put the car in storage at his home in Norfolk, CT. The car remained in the family, tucked away in storage for almost its entire life. After very recently being removed from the barn, new tires were installed and the wheels correctly refinished in black. Aside from a sympathetic clean up and fitting of the new wheels and tires, the Packard remains in its as stored condition. It is always nice to find a Packard which has been hiding, but very few have been in single family ownership for such a long period and are as original and complete as this. Surviving today, this Packard is an opportunity not to be missed.
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