the original owner is believed to be George Hormel II, heir to the meat-packing Hormel Foods Corp. and owner of the historic Wrigley Mansion in Phoenix, AZ.
During the 1950s, this Packard was purchased by J.B Nethercutt collection.
In 1961, it was purchased by the Harrah collection. The car remained in his collection for the next 24 years before being sold in 1985, to Tom Monaghan the founder of Domino’s Pizza who had a world class collection
The car remained in the Domino’s Classic Car Collection until 1989, before joining the Blackhawk Collection
THAT is a couch! And it was put in this Packard about 20 years before seatbelts were invented
I'm no auto designer - I can barely match my socks- but I wonder what's the reasoning behind narrowing the front of the passenger compartment, thus leaving those horizontal chrome surfaces behind the driver seat? Did it somehow make entry and egress easier?
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I don't know, but it would take a lot of research to dig into the facts, or, some expert in the coachbuilt 1930s cars with the seperate and open driver area, but enclosed passenger area. Probably a docent at the Blackhawk Museum, or the Gilmore, or other museums with these Kellner bodied Cadillacs, Packards, Deusesbergs, etc would know, or the AACA guys on Facebook could answer that
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