Where and When - Solved! Packard Proving Grounds / 1929

Otto Puzzell · January 30, 2007, 05:25:47 AM

The type of car in this picture is a given. However, can you identify where the picture was taken, and when?

MG · January 30, 2007, 06:19:15 AM

Certainly LOOKS like one of the mansions along Ocean Drive in Newport. But I suppose if you've seen one mansion, you've seen 'em all..... $:-\$

Otto Puzzell · January 30, 2007, 10:13:12 AM

Not a mansion, and far from Newport.

GRAYWOLF · February 14, 2007, 11:16:52 AM

A park on the West Coast!

SeaLion · February 14, 2007, 11:54:21 AM

It is the gates of the Packard Proving Grounds in 49965 Van Dyke Ave, Shelby Township, Macomb County. The Packard Proving Grounds was started to build in 1926 and finished in 1929. Ford bougt the site in 1961 and in 2000 they restored the site together with Packard Motor Car Foundation.

So this picture might have been taken by the opening in 1929?

Otto Puzzell · February 14, 2007, 03:06:17 PM

That is an absolute correct ID of the place and time.

Nicely done!

SeaLion · February 14, 2007, 03:33:41 PM

I searched at Google images with the two words packard and gates.

Otto Puzzell · February 14, 2007, 03:57:40 PM

Well, I think your are an Auto Puzzle genius. Sometimes the smartest path is the most obvious one.

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Where and When - Solved! Packard Proving Grounds / 1929