{"id":499393,"date":"2021-09-07T17:47:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T00:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=122746"},"modified":"2024-08-18T20:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:22:37","slug":"fit-for-a-dictator-stalins-1936-packard-phaeton-parade-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/fit-for-a-dictator-stalins-1936-packard-phaeton-parade-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Fit for a Dictator – Stalin\u2019s 1936 Packard Phaeton Parade Car"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>With a shiver of trepidation, I slip behind the wheel of the museum\u2019s grand 1936 Packard phaeton Standard Eight parade car. I\u2019m nervous because its original owner would have had me shot\u2014 if I were lucky \u2014for getting anywhere near it. You see, Ioseb Besarionis dz\u0435 Jughashvili, more commonly known as Joseph Stalin \u2014despotic ruler of the Soviet Union in the 1930s \u2014was not an easy-going guy.<\/p>\n

This particular Packard was purchased by Stalin\u2019s regime along with nine others, and was exported to Russia by the United States government for Uncle Joe\u2019s use. As the story goes, many years later in 1990 it was shipped to Germany for restoration. And then three years after that it was shipped to a fellow named John Scales in Dalla,s Texas, an American professional restorer, for further work. His efforts took two years to bring the car to the near show winning condition it is in now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n