Packard, a pioneer of 12-cylinder automobile engines, introduced a new generation for the Ninth Series of 1932.

Called for only this season the Twin Six and the Twelve every season thereafter, it was a wonderful design of “modified L-head” configuration, with some of the combustion chamber in the block, equipped with a zero-lash valve train using a center-mounted camshaft to actuate nearly horizontal valves with hydraulic tappets for smooth, quiet operation.

Producing 160 horsepower and 322 pound-feet of torque, the engine could run a Packard equipped with it upwards of 100 mph.

The Convertible Victoria offered here is one of three known surviving examples of this most elegant style drawn by Raymond Dietrich on the Twin Six chassis.

It is the only one of these with the attractive wooden artillery wheels—unusually 18-inch, rather than the standard 17-inch, the only such set known—which add a rather sporting air to its lines.

Significantly, the car is stamped on the underside of bot...