Topic: Solved TGF-334: Packard de luxe Highway Parlor Car by T.J.Batts, 1929

[targhediferro]

Do you know this car? You task is to tell me the base car, how it was called, and who did it, for a point.

[targhediferro]

Professionals' time.

[Oguerrerob]

De Luxe Highway Parlor Car 1929 Packard by John Thomas Batts USA

[Bill Murray]

Nice job O.

I wonder how many other members spent hours of time looking at hearses as I did .

Bill

[Oguerrerob]

Sometimes I do But this one is a passenger car.

[targhediferro]

Well done Oguerrerob. I'm sorry Bill, I knew it would have seemed an hearse, it was part of the game.

[Paul Jaray]

It is a passenger car but you could have found it looking for hearses too...
This pic is captioned: '1930 Packard Custom Eight Special Funeral Coach by John Thomas Batts (740)'

...BUT:

Late in life he designed an unusual ‘Highway Pullman’ which incorporated a number of features not seen before or since, and had it constructed upon a late model Packard. For numerous years a number of automotive historians have misidentified the vehicle as a hearse, which it most certainly was not.