1951 Packard 200 Standard Sedan

This car is as campaigned by French driver Jean Trevoux in the 1951 Carrera Panamericana II in November of 1951. Trevoux won the first leg of the race, from Tuxtla Gutierrez to Oaxaca, outright, with a speed of 78.54 mph, and came in fifth overall in the race, with a total time of 22:22:17, only one hour 24-minutes and 24 seconds off the winning time for the entire eight-day event. Pablo Merrigan was a teenage member of Trevoux's crew in 1951, and in 1995 completed the restoration of this car so as to be able to compete in the then-re-established Carrera Panamericana, in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999, Bob Signom, founder and curator of America's Packard Museum in Dayton, Oh, campaigned this Packard in that event, finishing second one year and third another in the 'Original PanAm' class for unmodified cars. The car was donated to the museum by Dr. Donald Turner, of Dayton, and is a part of the Museum's permanent collection.