47 Part 1: Old Cars Magazine—January 10, 2019 The Mysterious Packard Monte Carlo Was There More Than One of the Interesting Henney-Designed Concepts? Maybe! I love research – or at least I think I continue to do so. Our team continues to look at the periphery of the auto hobby – primarily in the early postwar years with our focus on handcrafted cars from across America. I first learned of the 1949 Packard Monte Carlo around 2011 when I was searching late one night for lost cars and other interesting postwar handcrafted mysteries. It showed up (and still is posted) on the site collectorsweekly.com (see image at right), and looked different to me than other Packard bathtubs I’d seen before. Growing up in my teenage years, I had bought my first “old car” in 1976 which was a 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood. While there was great car interest in my family, there was no one mechanically inclined so at the age of 14 I went out and found a mentor where I lived – Paul Terhorst of Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Paul was and still is a Packard guy with a great family….a wife, 3 daughters and no sons. So he put me to work and I learned about Cadillacs, Packards and other cars in my high school years. And….the first Packard I drove of his was a 1949 anniversary model with a gas tank that whistled when you filled it up. Still a fun memory driving that car nearly 40 years later. Over the years Paul continued to press me to buy a Packard and each year I digressed more into unusual and hand built postwar cars – until the Packard Monte Carlo caught my eye. Unrestored cars don’t bother me. Built by men and women….they can be fixed by men and women too. And over the years we have brought back a number of cars from the brink of extinction as part of what we do at Undiscovered Classics. And I loved the fluted sides of the Packard Monte Carlo that I had seen on the internet. Maybe Paul was right – maybe it was time to go get a Packard, so in late 2017 I started researching the Monte Carlo again – surely it had been bought by someone some 7 years later. Website Where I Found the Packard Monte Carlo Posted For All To See
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