Is this 1935 Packard still around?

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Hugo Modderman is wondering if this special bodied 1935 Packard is still around, possibly in North West Europe, or even in the Netherlands where the body was made by Schutter en Van Bakel. Aside the european understated lines, one should pay special notice to the twin side-by-side sliding roof(*). He has a very concrete reason to ask this. Very soon there will be an exposition in Amsterdam about the coachbuilder Schutter & van Bakel who had their workshop in de narrow Kerkstraat in Amsterdam. The exposition will be in the same street, so very near to the original premises.

The Schutter & van Bakel bodies known to Hugo are now in Great Brittain and the USA. Except for one which is in Holland, but that's a Bugatti and of course the 1928 Lincoln earlier discussed on these pages. The Packard we're looking for was first prize winner in 'Concours de Carrosserie' organised by the Royal Dutch Automobile Club (KNAC) in 1935. We're looking forward to receive any information you may have about this car. And hey, maybe you have another Schutte & van Bakel parked in your Dutch shed. We're equally happy to learn about that!

(*) according to the Dutch car history society Conam the car got badly damaged during the war. 

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