1941 Packard Super-8 One-Eighty Formal Sedan

This 1941 Packard One-Eighty Custom Formal Sedan wears coachwork by Rollson Inc. of New York and was ordered new for Alta Prentice. Its custom coachwork in the 1432 body style was the only one ordered for 1941 and it wears the 2001 series number, the starting number for the series. It has a 138-inch wheelbase and a 356 cubic-inch, 160-horsepower version of the standard Packard straight-eight motor.

Alta retained the car on her estate until her passing in 1962. In 1964, Winthrop Rockefeller, grandson of John D., formed the Museum of Automobiles in Arkansas and included several of the cars on the Rockefeller estates. After Winthrop passed away in 1937, the museum was given to the State of Arkansas, and a number of cars were sold to the Harrah Collection, including this Packard. The car later was later sold to Holiday Inn in the mid-1980s. Ownership history from that point until 2010 is not known but it was given an extensive frame-on restoration during the 200s and ended up in New Zealand in an airplane-and-auto museum.

The current owners acquired the car in 2010. It is currently finished in emerald-green paint with a vinyl top. The interior is done in green leather in the front and tan cloth upholstery in the rear.

By Daniel Vaughan | Jan 2020