Please meet "Blackie"
"The Chairman of the Board"
1933 Packard 1004 Super Eight
5 Passenger Sport Phaeton Dual Cowl!
UPDATE ... This above photo taken on 01/31/2010
This photo I took of "Blackie" at the gate to our home ..."Shenandoah West"
Several years ago.
This is Blackie with our steam train Little Bubba ...
A custom built Grand Scale sized train we have going around our home.
This wonderful photo above was taken by Bud Juneau for a magazine
cover
It is a larger file = longer download but worth the wait!
Blackie featured on one of two different posters
Thank You Mel Nethery for this great photo
Thank You Ron Doss for this great photo
Ron was the previous owner.
Doc and Becky Hemp
Concours Co-Chairman, Jules Huemann & one of our favorite (Packard nut) actors, Edward
Herrmann (click here) fighting for a picture with ole Doc Hemp & Blackie - hee-hee
.... Edward has a beautifully restored 1936 Packard ... He also rode in the rumble
seat of a 1934 Dietrich 12 Convertible Roadster in front of us on the 50 mile tour.
We have several million hits per year to our many websites as per search engines
Some history of this car from new
Please meet "BLACKIE" Our Cool Packard Dual Cowl Sport Phaeton.
This is one of the world's very rare and most original cars, with a rich history
since new and only about 21,000 miles. Never off the frame, always maintained in
excellent condition by each owner since new and restored as needed by most. Some
restoration was done by Stone Barn, etc. and most recently we have brought Blackie
back to 100pts in 2000 & 2002 at the last two concours. .... Note .... 1/2010 ...
"Blackie" is still perfect and running great! We drive him only enough to keep him
in shape.
"Blackie" has won 1st in class at Meadow Brook when David Kane was the owner, and
when Ron Doss owned and named "Blackie" .. 1st at the Classic Car Club of America's
National Grand Classic, Senior Badge # 2111. It was also 1st in class, received
the Artisans Award & Peoples Choice at the Port Gardner Concours, as it did People's
Choice at Fresno when we first bought "Blackie"
It was since then also one of the 7 Classic Era Packards invited to Pebble Beach
in 1999 to represent Packard's 100th birthday where it had only a very incidental
markdown in the engine compartment (because of the 50 mile tour we went on before
the show in the rain) but still scored almost a perfect 100 points.
Blackie is featured on the Show Case (Robb Report's)
Magazine cover Aug 2000 for Pebble Beach's 50th Anniversary Edition. Becky &
I are very honored that Blackie was chosen for the cover out of all the cars at
Pebble in 1999.
Blackie was also featured in Hemmings Special Interest
Autos, (Great Photo) ... article by Chico's world-renowned Automobile journalist
Arch Brown with photos by equally famous Bud Juneau.
And most recently, on September 17th 2000 at the Chico Concours, Blackie
won First in class with a perfect 100 point score, Peoples Choice Award, and tied
for Best of Show with a rare Ferrari, which was the only other with a perfect
score out of about 200 cars. Since it is their policy not to give multiple major awards,
it was given to the very deserving Ferrari.
1933 is considered by many the most desirable year during the classic era for Packard,
because in 1933 Packard closed the sides of the front fenders in, but still left the
front open (shows off this original factory delivered red undercarriage). In 1934
the front fenders were brought down behind the front bumper enclosing the full front
end and undercarriage.
Many also feel the Dual Cowl Sport Phaeton is one of the most desirable body styles
of the Classic Era (It is like a very long roadster without roll up windows, but with
two metal cowls and two windshields). This 1933 Packard model 1004 Dual Cowl Sport
Phaeton on the long 142" wheel base is one of only 3 left in existence out of only
possibly 8 built.
The first family to own this
1933 Dual Cowl Phaeton enjoyed it for 35 years. The car was passed on
from the original owner to his grandson Sherman Damon. Mr. Damon took
the car from Brookline, Massachusetts to his summer home in Vermont. A
dealer (Tom Mix) learned of the car in the 1960's and persuaded Mr.
Damon to sell the car and resold it to Mr. Frank Mueller. Mr. Mueller
kept the car in his Packard collection for another 20 years. That totals 55 years
with 2 families alone!
The car changed hands again and was owned by Robert E. Bolt. Mr. Bolt owned the car
for 8 or 9 years and in poor health sold the car to David Kane of Bernardsville, New
Jersey. In September 1994 Mr. Kane had some work done by Stone Barn Restorations.
The car then went
to show at Meadowbrook in 1995 or 96 and won first in class.
In 1996 David traded the car to John Farrell of Seattle for a Duesenberg Victoria
Convertible (which he regrets to this day!) In the early summer
of 1996 it was acquired in a trade by CCCA Director Ron Doss who named "Blackie"
"Blackie"
Becky & I are now doing our part. It still has the original brake shoes & SOME of
the original carpet, chrome on the trunk rack & still Nitro-Cellulous paint - painted
as necessary, etc.
Packard started the Super Eight Sport Phaeton series with body #11. Our
#13 was the third car built and was supposedly used in Packard's show circuit for 1933
at New York and Chicago.
33 production started at #750001, this car is:
Frame ............... 750050
Front Axle ....... 750059
Steering box ..... 750065
Engine .............. 750055
Rear End ...........750029
This would indicate it was produced probably during the first 15 days of production,
which started on January 5th of 1933 & ran through August of 1933. Only 788 total
10th Series cars were built and of these there were only three 1933-1004 Dual Cowl Sport
Phaetons built. Dietrich designed, but Packard built.
As Pebble Beach designated these cars. Three of them still exist. Ours is the only one
delivered with the factory red undercarriage. Our car was referenced during the other
restorations as it is one of the most original and perfect Packards there is. This
body style is among the most desirable in the world. One of the others can currently
be seen at the Blackhawk Museum in Danville, CA and the the other is in Washington state.
It is also Black on Black.
1933 was the first year of the "Super Eight" designation. The Dual Cowl Sport Phaeton
Super 8 was also Packard's largest car with a 142" wheel base. Packard also chose
this Super 8 Chasis to put their 12 cylinder engines in too. Thirteen body styles
were offered in the tenth series.
This car even has it's original manifold heater system 100% intact .. It has been
blocked off due to cases of carbon monoxide poisoning from these early systems ...
They were removed due to that and there are almost none around anymore.
