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£528,509

1930 Packard 745 Deluxe Eight Convertible Victoria by Waterhouse

United States • 4 Mar 2023

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This is a 1930 Packard 745 Deluxe Eight Convertible Victoria by Waterhouse, one of only four known survivors on the 745 Deluxe Eight chassis. It features a well-preserved national award-winning restoration and is recognized as a Classic Car Club of America (CCCA) Full Classic.

Condition

9

The car achieved Senior status in AACA and CCCA judging, with a perfect 100-point score in the latter after restoration. The car also won multiple awards in 1992 and 1993, including First Junior and Primary First Prize.

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Chassis No:

185592

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RHD/LHD:

LHD

THE WATERHOUSE CONVERTIBLE VICTORIA Few body styles so epitomize the Classic Era like the svelte and elegant Convertible Victoria, and no firm executed the style better than Waterhouse of Webster, Massachusetts.

A boutique firm which produced scarcely 200-300 bodies in a five-year run, Waterhouse is credited with first appropriating the Convertible Victoria for the US from a design by the Belgian firm Vanden Plas.

Each Waterhouse Convertible Victoria was frequently built over the frame rails, rather than atop them, allowing for an exceptionally low line; in a similar vein, the convertible top was engineered to fold flush into a ‘notch’ at the rear of the body.

Built with the superior craftsmanship of a small shop, every example was one of the finest, most beautiful convertibles that money could buy, and their style was almost immediately copied by sundry competitors.

THE CARNIVAL MAN’S PACKARD The car offered here is one of four extant Waterhouse Convertible Victorias built on the ...