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Solved -PJ460- H.F. Dixon's 6-passenger Special

Started by Paul Jaray, October 11, 2012, 04:56:26 PM

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October 11, 2012, 04:56:26 PM Last Edit: January 04, 2015, 02:47:03 PM by Paul Jaray
What is this?
1 point for you!

RayTheRat

#1
October 11, 2012, 10:17:46 PM
Packard 6-passenger Speedster, circa 1930?

Paul Jaray

#2
October 12, 2012, 02:53:47 AM
I have a couple of pics of it...my sources report that it was designed and built by that man.
Not a word about the donor(s).

RayTheRat

#3
October 12, 2012, 07:59:04 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 12, 2012, 02:53:47 AM
I have a couple of pics of it...my sources report that it was designed and built by that man.
Not a word about the donor(s).

I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand that.  Are you asking for the name of the designer/builder?

RtR

Paul Jaray

#4
October 13, 2012, 03:52:53 PM
Yes, I'd like to know who created it.

Paul Jaray

#5
November 20, 2012, 12:26:46 PM Last Edit: January 04, 2015, 02:48:31 PM by Paul Jaray
Do you recognize it, now?

RayTheRat

#6
November 20, 2012, 06:46:29 PM
I wish I could say that I did, but the newer photo just confirms what I'd been able to see from the plan view: a triple-cowl boat-tail speedster, built on a Packard platform, circa 1930-31.  The only thing that's new is the palm trees which indicate a probability of being in Southern California, perhaps Hollywood or Beverly Hills.

I've considered and discarded numerous "possibles" for the builder...they all seemed to be of the wrong time period.

The most likely coachbuilders would be Deitrich or Murphy, but that's just a guess.

I'm stumped for the moment.

Paul Jaray

#7
November 21, 2012, 05:50:07 AM
He's from Los Angeles.
I don't think he is a coachbuilder.
I took this pic from a quite known source. (Well, both of them actually).

Paul Jaray

#8
January 04, 2013, 09:58:23 AM
If you mispell an American President, you'll find his name. I won't lock it.

Paul Jaray

#9
January 19, 2013, 01:39:07 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on January 04, 2013, 09:58:23 AM
If you mispell an American President, you'll find his name. I won't lock it.
Not Washington or Lincoln...

pnegyesi

#10
January 19, 2013, 02:01:57 PM
Jefferson?

pnegyesi

#12
January 19, 2013, 03:50:44 PM
Roosevelt?

Paul Jaray

#13
January 19, 2013, 04:30:37 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on January 19, 2013, 01:39:07 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on January 04, 2013, 09:58:23 AM
If you mispell an American President, you'll find his name. I won't lock it.
Not Washington or Lincoln...
Those where just to get the guesses started.
Not that old (and prestigious...)

Carnut

#14
January 19, 2013, 07:47:21 PM
Clanton?
Interests in life:  Cars, cars, cars - oh and ..er..cars

woodinsight

#15
January 20, 2013, 03:29:28 AM
Busch?

pnegyesi

#17
January 20, 2013, 06:26:58 AM
nixom?

Paul Jaray

#18
January 20, 2013, 07:01:29 AM
Right President, not Nixom...
Nixom

Wendax

#19
January 20, 2013, 07:02:49 AM
Dixon?

pnegyesi

#20
January 20, 2013, 07:14:03 AM
Mixon?

pnegyesi

#22
January 27, 2013, 02:22:37 PM
Just to make sure, was this built in the early 1930s?

Paul Jaray

#23
January 28, 2013, 05:52:04 AM
One of the pics comes from a 1930 magazine.

Paul Jaray

#24
February 03, 2013, 03:31:57 AM
Now, we know tha a Mr. Dixon built it in 1930...
The full answer is X.Y. Dixon from Los Angeles.
Just those 2 letters are missing.
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