1933 Packard Twelve Coupe Roadster
By the time of the introduction of 1933’s Tenth Series, Packard remained the choice of American aristocracy yet was beginning to incorporate welcome hints of flash and dash into its lines. The year’s models incorporated classically swept fender lines, but now the fenders were skirted, neatly hiding the mechanical components beneath. A graceful vee’d radiator shell hinted at the power flexed by the top-of-the-line V-12, now in its second season, built on a new tapered frame, and featuring such mechanical refinements as a single dry-plate clutch and automatic choke.
The Tenth Series and its successor, the Eleventh Series, arguably represent the highlight of Packard’s Classic Era design; most collectors consider them to be the most beautiful Packards ever made.
THE LAST COUPE ROADSTER
The most desirable factory body style on the Tenth Series Twelve chassis is the Coupe Roadster, a two-passenger convertible coupe with a rumble seat. This design had been adopted in 1932 and was based upon a semi-custom LeBaron offering of the prior year, including its distinctive wide flow-through beltline molding and low-profile folding top.
The Packard Twelve Coupe Roadster was built at the very end of the 1933 Tenth Series model year and is therefore an unusual combination of 1933 and 1934 features. The 1933-style body is number 61, which, as Packard began numbering its bodies from 10, is actually the 51st and believed final twelve-cylinder Coupe Roadster body constructed in 1933. All styling features are 1933 Tenth Series, including the distinctive dashboard layout, as is the layout of the ancillary engine components under the hood. Yet, the car’s mechanical components are all extremely early 1934 Eleventh Series, including the engine, transmission, and steering box; the latter is the earliest known steering box number for the Eleventh Series. The chassis and front axle are numbered closely enough to be considered “numbers matching.”
Series 1005. Body Style 639. 160 bhp, 445.5 cu. in. modified L-head V-12 engine, three-speed selective synchromesh manual transmission, vacuum-assisted clutch, front and rear leaf-spring suspension, and four-wheel vacuum-assisted mechanical drum brakes. Wheelbase: 142 in.
1933 Packard Twelve Coupe Roadster
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