Please note that this vehicle is titled by the engine number 23684.

The details regarding Mr. Alger’s ownership of this car were sourced from John Grundy’s definitive book on early Packards. Furthermore, correspondence that comes with the car indicates that former owners contacted Packard in the late 1940s directly to corroborate the Alger provenance, which they too were unable to prove conclusively. With regard to the supposed Alger history, Edward Macauley, Chief Engineer of Styling and son of the Packard president, wrote “it may very well have been and the body was undoubtedly designed and built by Packard.” Speaking of Frederick Alger, Jr. he continued “It, in all probability, was for his father that the car was built if, in fact, it was built specially.”