You can refer to Ron and Nancy’s sweet 1940 Packard as a Super Eight. You can call it by its model number, 1803, or its series, One-Sixty. Or you can just call it a “Senior Packard.”
Ron and Nancy call it “Big Red.” It’s a fitting moniker that was hung on the car quite a while back, and the Clintonville, Wis., couple hasn’t seen any reason to call the big, dark red Packard anything different.
“The title originally came from Michigan. We know the man who had it in the ’80s came from Illinois,” Ron says. “It’s been red ever since we’ve owned it. When the guy from Illinois owned it, it was red. He nicknamed it ‘Big Red.’ So everybody calls it ‘Big Red.’”
“It’s been called ‘Big Red’ through at least three owners,” Nancy adds.
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