Check Out what showed up at our local car show

[wdills]

Each year the local Hot Rod club has a Hot Rod and Classic car show on Labor Day Weekend. Normally it is a bunch of Hot Rods, Mustangs, Cameros and 55-57 Chevy's. This year a 33 Packard showed up. This thing was way nice. By far the classiest thing there.

[Pat Dilling]

Wow, Classy is right! Those wheels and tires are interesting, don't think I have seen wires done in white before. I like it.

Pat

[Metman]

Just Gorgeous!!!

[StudeRich]

It may have been the Classiest car there, but it had to also be one the most expensive! Really nice!

[56H-Y6]

Hi

Stands out in that group of cars like a Tiffany diamond in a box of costume jewelry!

Steve

[58PackardWagon]

All I can say is WOW

[jclary]

I think I have seen this car before. The radiator cap alone is probably worth more than some of the other cars present. Love those headlights.

[bob40]

It;s a beauty.Bet it can cruise down the highway too.

[studegary]

Really likes lights - dual spotlights and dual road lights that turn with the front wheels.

[JBOYLE]

I love it when something different shows up....
50s cars, Muscle cars, pony cars, medium and big-buck street rods...yes, they're nice but it'a always a treat to see something unexpected.

It's a pity that so many nice cars of that vintage seem to be owned by older guys who don't take them out much.

[wdills]

I got to talk to the owner a little. He only lives about 20 miles from me. I have been in this area for most of my life and I had never seen this car before. And I go to most of the local shows within an hour or so drive. So you are right. It was an odler guy and he doesn't take it out much.

I was quite suprised to find out that he drove it to the show. He opened the hood and you could tell it wasn't a trailer queen. There were a few leaks here and there and signs of the engine being hot and burning the paint.

I don't think I could enjoy a car like that because I would be scared to death to drive it on the road.

[Steve T]

Wonderful Packard, and nice pix. We have a Packard ('37 Six sedan) locally that is likewise owned by an older guy. However, he's a real stalwart of the cruise scene here; has the car out several times a week in the summer, usually arrives, parks, and stays in the car holding court! And when I say "older" I mean it. One of his buddies (a gent in his 60s who himself has a '38 Chev and a '34 Dodge and is a fixture on the cruise scene) told me that the Packard chap is 93.

Here's to Harvey and his Packard; and here's to the owner of this '33 phaeton too, for getting in it and driving it...

S.