1934 Packard Twelve Model 1106 V-12 Sport Coupe

Sport Coupe

hile the cars built on Packard’s Model 1106 chassis

are considered among the best and most beautiful

Packards ever made, they are somewhat at odds

with the rest of Packard’s output as a car manu-

facturer. Packards were high-quality, solidly built

cars, without a doubt, but high style and advanced

aesthetics were not typically part of the company’s recipe.

That changed with the Model 1106, which carried the Sport

Coupe body seen here, as well as the LeBaron-built Runabout

Speedster body seen elsewhere in this book. Packard built them

to prove the company could build cars the equal of anything

else in the world, including from a stylistic standpoint.

Several styling features made the Sport Coupe distinctive,

and even highly influential on European manufacturers and

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