431.9ci Side-Valve 4-Cylinder Engine Single Carburetor 30bhp at 650rpm 3-Speed Transaxle Front and Rear Leaf Spring Suspension Rear Mechanical Brakes *Formerly displayed in the Bridgewater Museum, New York *Sympathetic restoration, with Leif Drexler trim *Recently recommissioned and detailed *A four-owner car from new THE EARLY PACKARD James Ward Packard was a demanding character who entered the motoring arena in the closing years of the nineteenth century, buying a Winton motor car in 1898 which caused him so many problems and major fall outs with the equally demanding and even more feisty Scotsman, Alexander Winton, that Packard decided that he could do better and so set about building his own gasoline motor buggy.

Recruiting first his brother, William Doud Packard, and then enlisting Winton's key men, George Weiss and William Hatcher, James Ward set aside part of the family Warren, Ohio, transformer factory to design and build their first automobile.

On November 6th, 1899 that fir...