I was put in the Dietrich Design Class because J. at Pebble Beach felt though Packad built I am still an earlier Dietrich Design & it was the closest class anyway.
Please read Bill Dobson's comments below that were in the Pebble Beach Program this year & also veiw the twin 6 with my same body style. I still have that exact black uphostry too.
"By 1931, in an effort to capture the coachwork buisness, the plan to bring as many operations as possible within the corporate sphere and to build ALL CUSTOM BODIES IN-HOUSE had reached its final stage. The Custom Body Division reported directly to the Engineering Department rather than Manufacturing so that EVERYTHING INCLUDING the stamping of sheet metal as well as the framing of wood was done in one Packard building, NOT AT MURRAY OR DIETRICH. Dietrich's contract as a consultant expired & wasn't renewed". ........ (but) His designs for all Packards continued to be produced through 1934". Ray Dietrich was kept on as "Consulting Art Director" into 1932 replaced by Count Alexis de Sakhoffsky who was responsible for the big change in the design of all the mid 30's Packards from 1935 on. I am not stamped Dietrich Custom Built like the identical or nearly identical Dietrich Sport Phaetons of 28 -30 were because some feel Packard used his earlier design for their 1933 production Sport Phaetons ... and the Dietrich Stamped Custom Bodies of 1933 like David Kane's WONDERFUL Dietrich 12 were Dietrich's newest custom design (still Packard Custom cars built in-house the same place as the model 1004's). So ... I am a still a very fine Packard, one of 3 surviving of about 8 built.
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