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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria - Hollywood glamor and Parisian elegance

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Created on April 30, 2017

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Bruno von Rotz

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - largely corresponding to the series variants up to the bulkhead

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - you can also imagine it as a movie car

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - looks elegant from all sides

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - already designed rear end

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - front view

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - rear view

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - flat silhouette even with folding roof

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - ideal for Holywood stars

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - View of the interior

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - Speedometer with two-digit speedometer

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - Medium wave radio

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - the standard in-line eight-cylinder engine

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - the in-line eight-cylinder

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - Chassis badge

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - the designer of the bodywork

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - Lettering

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - the eight-cylinder in its most powerful form

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - Front corresponds to the series

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - beautifully shaped mudguards

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - elaborate roof construction

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - Tool kit

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Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - pretty exhaust

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Packard One Twenty (1936) - Chassis

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Packard One Twenty (1936) - as a factory sports coupé

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Packard Eight (1938) - the in-line eight-cylinder

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Packard Eight (1938) - Chassis of the eight-cylinder model

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Packard Super Eight Darrin Convertible Victoria (1941) - offered at the RM Auction of Monterey on August 19 and 20, 2011

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Packard Super Eight One-Eighty Darrin Convertible Sedan by Howard "Dutch" Darrin (1940) - offered as Lot 260 at the Monterey RM Auction on August 17 and 18, 2012

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Packard Super Eight One-Sixty Convertible Coupe by Rollson Inc. (1940) - offered as Lot 255 at the Monterey RM Auction on August 17 and 18, 2012

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Packard Super Eight One-Eighty Darrin Convertible Sedan by Howard "Dutch" Darrin (1940) - offered as Lot 260 at the Monterey RM Auction on August 17 and 18, 2012

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Packard 120 Convertible Coupé (1936) - ADAC Trentino Classic 2013 - classic car challenge for the Autozug trophy

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Packard 120 Convertible Coupé (1936) - ADAC Trentino Classic 2013 - classic car challenge for the Autostadt Cup

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Packard 120 Convertible Sedan (1940) - offered as lot 127 at the RM auction on January 16/17, 2014 in Arizona

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Packard 120 Convertible Sedan (1940) - offered as lot 127 at the RM auction on January 16/17, 2014 in Arizona

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Packard Type 120 Cabriolet (1940) - auctioned as lot 429 at the Artcurial Rétromobile auction on February 7, 2014 in Paris

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Packard Eight Convertible Sedan (1936) - offered as lot 189 at the RM Auction Amelia Island 2014

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Packard Eight Convertible Sedan (1936) - offered as lot 189 at the RM Auction Amelia Island 2014

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Packard One-Twenty Convertible Coupe (1941) - to be offered at the Gooding & Company auction in Amelia Island on March 7, 2014

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Packard One-Twenty Convertible Coupe (1941) - to be offered at the Gooding & Company auction in Amelia Island on March 7, 2014

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Packard Custom Super Eight One Eighty Convertible Sedan Darrin (1940) - as lot 138 at the RM Auction Motor City on July 26, 2014

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Packard Custom Super Eight One Eighty Convertible Sedan Darrin (1940) - as lot 138 at the RM Auction Motor City on July 26, 2014

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Packard Custom Super Eight One Eighty Sport Brougham LeBaron (1941) - as lot 145 at the RM Auction Motor City on July 26, 2014

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Packard Custom Super Eight One Eighty Sport Brougham LeBaron (1941) - as lot 145 at the RM Auction Motor City on July 26, 2014

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Packard Super Eight 160 Convertible Sedan (1940) - offered as lot 037 at the Bonhams Scottsdale auction on January 28, 2016

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Packard Super Eight Convertible Victoria (1937) - offered as lot 158 at the RM/Sotheby's auction in Paris on February 3, 2016

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Packard One Twenty Convertible Victoria by Darrin (1940) - offered as lot 130 at the 2017 RM/Sotheby's Arizona sale

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Packard One Twenty Convertible Victoria by Darrin (1939) - offered as lot 143 at RM/Sotheby's Amelia Island auction 2017

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Summary

There would probably be little more to say today about just over a hundred Packard models with a special design if they had not been designed by Howard Darrin. Darrin is considered one of the most influential designers in the USA. His creations were driven by the most famous actors, his shapes shaped entire vehicle brands. This vehicle report portrays one of 35 Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria built in 1941 and tells the adventurous story behind it.

This article contains the following chapters

Parisian charm
Downsizing at Packard
From the special body
... to the series variant
Just a short episode
One of 35

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Thomas Banacek not only knew a multitude of (invented) Polish proverbs, he also had exquisite taste in cars. The insurance investigator in the US television series of the same name from the early 1970s drove a 1941 Packard One Eighty Darrin Convertible Victoria, the car that many Hollywood stars owned in the early 1940s. The elegant car was the brainchild of designer Howard Darrin. Howard "Dutch" Darrin was actually more than a designer, he was an engineer and inventor with an artistic streak. He was born in New Jersey, but spent part of the 1920s and 1930s in France, where he coachbuilt luxury cars together with Thomas Hibbard and later with a banker named Fernandez. In the mid-thirties, however, sales of expensive vehicles collapsed and Darrin moved back to America, where he immediately used his hip French-European style (and accent) for business purposes.

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