1903 Packard Model F at the Waterfront Car Cruise with Jeff Gordon

Waterfront Car Cruise with Jeff Gordon

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1903 Packard Model F

1906 Cadillac Model M

1932 Ford V-8 Model 18

1950 Hudson 500 Pacemaker Brougham

1950 Oldsmobile 88

1950 Willys Jeepster

1951 Hudson Hornet Series 7A

1952 MG TD

1955 DeSoto Firedome

1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta

1959 Autobianchi Bianchina

1960 Buick LeSabre

1960 Edsel Ranger

1962 Austin Mini Cooper Pickup

1962 Chrysler 300H

1963 Dodge Dart

1964 Excalibur SS

1965 Studebaker Daytona

1966 Chevrolet Corvair Series

1967 Austin Mini Countryman

1967 Ford Thunderbird

1967 Pontiac Tempest GTO

1968 Saab Sonett II

1969 Ford Mustang

1970 Cadillac DeVille Series

1970 Jaguar XKE E-Type

1970 Plymouth GTX

1971 Dodge Challenger

1973 Buick Riviera

1973 Volvo 1800 ES

1978 Chevrolet Corvette C3

1979 Chevrolet Caprice Classic

Information on the 1903 Packard Model F

More photographs of the 1903 Packard Model F

The Ohio Automobile Company was founded by brothers James Ward and William Doud Packard, with George Weiss, in Warren Ohio. James believed that they could built a better horseless carriage than the Wintons owned by Weiss (a Winton stockholder), and he had some ideas how to improve on the designs. The company was making vehicles by 1899 and soon were introducing innovations such as the steering wheel, which replaced tiller steering.

Packard concentrated on upscale cars that started at $2,600. Packard cars developed a following, in the United States, and also abroad, with many heads of state owning them. In need of more capital, the Packard brothers would find it when the wealthy Henry Joy, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he enlisted a group of investors to finance company expansion. In October 1902, the company became the Packard Motor Car Company and moved its automobile operations to Detroit.

By 1903, Packard was well on its way towards becoming an icon of American automotive quality and perfection. The Detroit plant, designed by Albert Kahn, opened in 1903, and that same year, drivers Tom Fetch and Marius Krarup (who was editor of the original Automobile magazine), drove an already-aging, single-cylinder, Packard Model F from San Francisco to New York in 61 days, an incredible accomplishment in the days of minimal dirt roads and cow paths.

This rear-entrance Tonneau is powered by a single-cylinder, twelve-horsepower engine with a six-inch bore and a six-and-a-half-inch stroke. It has a wheelbase of 88 inches. A similar car participated in the trans-continental crossing, held June 20th through August 21st, 1903, from San Francisco to New York. That car, driven by Tom Fetch, would have emphasized the reliability and endurance that a Packard could provide to their customers. The Model F was the last car manufactured in Warren, OH, the birthplace of the Packard Automobile.

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Concours d'Elegance of America at Meadow Brook >> Horseless Carriages

Concours d'Elegance of America at Meadow Brook >> Gaslight to 1915

Concours d'Elegance of America at Meadow Brook >> Horseless Carriage (1895 - 1915)

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