Rare Air
If you’ve traveled through New York’s Catskills region during the past two summers, you may have spotted an imposing Full Classic wafting down the road —an imperious vertical grille fronting some 16 feet of burgundy-leather-lined cream-yellow sheetmetal, trailing genuine old-Hollywood glamour in its wake. It’s an incredibly rare sight, a Dietrich-bodied long-wheelbase Packard Convertible Sedan, and thanks to the careful restoration of its engine, interior, and top, this special car is enjoying a new lease on life.
The firewall data plate reveals the origin of this Twelfth Series Model 1205 — it was the 11th 144-inch-wheelbase Super Eight Convertible Sedan built for 1935, delivered to its original owner that August in Newburgh, New York — but the car #168) we now own,” Allan tells us.
