MITTY’S PACKARD Very few of the elite, costly and beautiful “vee-windshield” Dietrich Individual Custom bodies were built on Packard’s short-lived 1933 Tenth Series Twelve chassis.

Among them was this convertible victoria, body number 6212.

Vehicle number 1006-22 appears to have been the sole Tenth Series Dietrich Individual Custom convertible victoria built and significantly, it is the same car seen in factory studio photography, taken on the famous turntable where many of the greatest Packards of this era took their turn before the cameras.

According to the recollections of long-term future owner Armin “Mitty” Mittermaier, published in the June 1988 issue of The Classic Car , 1006-22 was delivered new via the Packard dealer in Hartford, Connecticut.

Mr.

Mittermaier noted that, having remained in that area since, it was sold by its third owner in 1950 to Frank Akutowicz of Windsor.

Mr.

Akutowicz subsequently relocated with the car to attend Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, a...