Packard Super Eight Soft Enamel Lapel Pin

About the Packard Super Eight

The Packard Super Eight was the larger of the two eight-cylinder automobiles produced by Packard, beginning in 1933. It shared frames and some body types with the top model Packard Twelve. In 1937, it was reduced to a smaller and lighter design. Following the discontinuation of the Sixteenth Series Twelve after the 1939 model year, a new Custom Super Eight 180 was derived from the Super Eight as the new top car range. The Super Eight was renamed the Super Eight One-Sixty starting a naming convention change in 1940. The entire range of Packard's motorcars was renamed for the 1951 model year, when the Super Eight was renamed 300.

From a 1935 Packard sales brochure: “KNOWING no rival save its companion car -the Packard Twelve- the Packard Super Eight for 1935 is available in the eleven handsome body styles pic­tured across the page. To match these, respectively, are three wheelbase lengths: 132, 139 and 144 inches. The motor, carrying to new performance the simplicity and economy of straight-eight design, develops 150 horsepower. The Five Passenger Club Sedan, another well liked body style, now includes a commodious built-in trunk.” CREDIT: packinfo.com