George Smolinski Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Saw this photo posted on FB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivguy Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Looks like a skinless chicken breast. 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Wildeisen Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 She’s a peach. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Someone can correct me, but I believe that is a modern reproduction of a Darrin design that was never built or lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Ha! I must be hanging around here too much. Looking at the sweep of the door I thought 'that looks like a darrin car'. Jury's out on the colour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
34LaSalleClubSedan Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 (edited) Errol Flynn's Packard ??? Edited May 24, 2022 by 34LaSalleClubSedan (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryLime Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 The jury is coming in now . The prosecutor is smiling and rubbing his hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunsmoke Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 (edited) a quick check indicates a lot of story about this car, supposedly a '46 Packard Clipper "Darrin" built for E Flynn and originally peach color with green interior. It later sold circa 1948 to a gent, who then resold it in '51 after which it was painted a dark color and eventually disappeared. Story suggests the '48 owner always regretted selling the car, could no longer locate it, so in 1990 had a reproduction made, and this is it. Good enough for me, the Hollywood crowd would have loved it and the story, and that is all that likely mattered to Flynn. If any of the naysayers on here lived/live in Hollywood they would know the vibe! Edited May 23, 2022 by Gunsmoke (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Just what is the known total of attractive cars built before 1935? I don't have time to comment on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Looks like a Darrin Darrin style. In 1946 the color request could be "Like the art deco car I saw at the 1930 Auto Salon. I can afford one now." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 44 minutes ago, alsancle said: Someone can correct me, but I believe that is a modern reproduction of a Darrin design that was never built or lost. Correct 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumBob Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 I love the color. Beautiful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Man Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 (edited) Errol Flynn says my Packard isn't peach... This picture looks closer...but still darker than peach, maybe salmon? Edited May 24, 2022 by Graham Man added a picture (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Could those perhaps be two different Darrin bodied Packards? In addition to the color differences the upper windshield trim looks different on both cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 3 hours ago, GregLaR said: Could those perhaps be two different Darrin bodied Packards? In addition to the color differences the upper windshield trim looks different on both cars. They are. The newer photo shows the reproduction of the original car. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 9 hours ago, DrumBob said: I love the color. Beautiful. I've seen fairly new Audi A4's in that color. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 13 hours ago, alsancle said: Someone can correct me, but I believe that is a modern reproduction of a Darrin design that was never built or lost. AJ: Yes, it was written up in The Packard Cormorant years ago. It was built as a recreation of the sole Clipper-based Darrin victoria which the fellow had owned at one time but sold and was lost. The center diecast grille was from the original car. The original was based on a 1941 Clipper, built for Errol Flynn Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 What's going to happen when the original is found? Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 (edited) 20 minutes ago, 8E45E said: What's going to happen when the original is found? Craig Be considered a miracle... The original was a medium green according to the fellow who built this recreation. The peach-color was what he had the Darrin Clipper changed to during his ownership. Remember, when Darrin built the one based on the 1941 Clipper, there were only four door Clippers available, so the body required a good deal more custom work to make a two-door basis for a convertible. Edited May 24, 2022 by 58L-Y8 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunsmoke Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Sometime things gets lost in translation. 58L-Y8 said "The original was based on a 1941 Clipper, built for Errol Flynn". Not sure how to translate this sentence. Here is a pic of the Packard Darren Victoria of 1941, it is my understanding that this is not the Flynn car. my understanding is that Flynn may have seen the 1941 Victoria and asked for something similar based on the 1946 platform. If that is the sequence, the remaining discussion is only about the color Flynn ordered, may very well have been similar to this 1941 car"Cigarette Cream" (an Auburn color), or perhaps he did order Peach, or Green or Salmon, or......! The clearly 1946 Packard Clipper is mis-titled in many online posts as being a 1941 Packard Clipper Darren Convertible, which does not help the discussion. Here are pics of both, with the pre-war and post-war differences obvious. note title on Clipper should say 1946. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 4 hours ago, alsancle said: They are. The newer photo shows the reproduction of the original car. Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my post. I meant the two cars in which Errol Flynn appears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryankazmer Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 The original Clipper convertible was not based on the 1941 production 180 Darrin you show. It was based on the Clipper sedan which debuted in 1941 1/2. Note the prewar grille. The newer recreation is based on a 46-7, but has the prewar grille to look more like the original. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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