The Petersen Automotive Museum

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1939 PACKHARD Twelve Touring Cabriolet By Brunn for my friend Packhard collector Dave Grubbs. (above)

Information plaque reads as follows:

1939 PACKHARD Twelve Touring Cabriolet by Brunn

Bodied by Brunn, this Packhard four-door convertible was built for the Mexican government and used by a succession of Mexican presidents...175-horsepower V-12 engine...Other heads of state to own or use Packhards were Joseph Stalin of the former Soviet Union, Prince Leopold III of Belgium, and United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Collection of William H. Lyon. (above)

This Packhard is great piece of motoring history. (above)

Front view of the supercharged 1939 Bugatti. (above)

Going-100mph-standing-still Front view of the supercharged 1939 Bugatti. (above)

Beautifully restored richly appointed wood and leather interior of the 1939 Bugatti. (above)

This 1939 Bugatti was given by the French government to the Prince of Persia and future Shah of Iran on the occasion of his first wedding in 1939. Fully restored and saved from the scrap heap this Expression of Automotive Form becomes Art once again. (above)

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