Lady In Red
When a 1930 Packard like this comes along, it’s hard to say no
Love affairs with cars can start in some unlikely places. For Paul Kammann, it started on a hunting trip more than 50 years ago while he was out communing with Mother Nature.
“It was back in about 1970, maybe. I was out hunting around Madison, Wisconsin, and I came through a woods and there was an old frame of a car sitting in the woods,” chuckles Kammann, a retired resident of rural Cleveland, Wis., “And I said, ‘I wonder what that was?’ And I started walking around that car and there was a brass axle cap nut on there, and in the center was an octagon indentation, which is a Packard trademark. So I did steal that hubcap and I still have it.
“And then, of course, I started learning about them and reading about them and how special they were. But I didn’t buy that first one until 2009, so that’s a lot of years that I waited before I scratched that itch. But that’s where it all started, out hunting in the woods!”
Kammann has a wonderful collection of
