Legacy Metrics

1933 Packard Twelve Convertible Victoria, Series 1005 (Tenth Series)

901349roadUnited States
Engine
V12

One of only five surviving Tenth Series Packard Twelve Convertible Victorias on the long-wheelbase 1005 chassis, this 1933 car was bodied to Raymond Dietrich's five-passenger design and delivered by the Earle C. Anthony dealership in Los Angeles in August 1933, with the original buyer reported as French entertainer Maurice Chevalier. Preserved largely unrestored for decades, it underwent a comprehensive ground-up restoration and subsequently won Best of Show at the 2022 Des Moines Concours d'Elegance and a class award at the 2023 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

Ownership

  1. Auction sale
    Estimate US$450,000 – US$550,000

    RM Sotheby's catalogue lot →

  2. 1933-08-05 →Factory delivery
    Maurice Chevalier
    partial documentation

    French entertainer based in Hollywood at the time of purchase; a brass nameplate bearing his name and Paris address remains on the floorboard to this day.

  3. → 1970Acquisition unknown
    Harold Crosby
    partial documentation

    Early Packard enthusiast based in California who later sold the car on to a museum collection.

  4. 1970 → 2021-06-01Private sale
    Gene Grengs
    partial documentation

    Collector who housed the car in his Cavalcade of Cars museum in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; the original interior served as a reference for restoration of a sibling car. A planned restoration beginning in 1979 was never completed.

  5. 2021-06-01 →Private sale
    Jeff Schreiner
    full documentation

    His workshop carried out a full ground-up restoration, preserving original identification tags and body stampings; subsequent authenticity refinements were handled by Stone Barn of Vienna, NJ under the guidance of David Kane.

Competition

  1. 2022
    2022 Des Moines Concours d'Elegance
    Best of Show

    First major showing after completion of the ground-up restoration.

  2. 2023
    2023 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
    Class award winner

    Entered by the current owner following additional authenticity enhancements undertaken to meet top national competition standards.

Maintenance & restoration

  1. 1979
    Restoration

    The car was taken apart in preparation for a full restoration, but the project was never carried through to completion.

    The dismantled state persisted until the car was acquired by Jeff Schreiner in 2021.

  2. 2021Restoration
    Schreiner's shop

    A thorough ground-up rebuild was completed, with particular care taken to preserve original identification elements including the firewall number tag, Dietrich body tags, and body number stampings in the wooden framework.

    Work was initiated shortly after acquisition in June 2021 and completed in time for the 2022 concours season.

  3. 2023Maintenance
    Stone Barn

    Further refinements were made to enhance the car's historical accuracy and bring it to the standard required for top-tier national concours judging.

    Work carried out at Stone Barn of Vienna, New Jersey, and overseen by noted Packard authority David Kane in preparation for the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

Are you the owner of this car?

This car's public record is built from its auction and competition history. Register your ownership and privately add your own records to make it a verified Legacy Metrics passport — provenance that backs your car's value at sale and gives your insurer evidence to price against. Roy reviews and verifies every registration personally.

Each chassis record is compiled from public auction archives and links to its source material. Ownership, competition and maintenance entries are extracted from those catalogue listings by an LLM, which can make mistakes — please contact us with any corrections. The summary is Legacy Metrics’ own writing; we do not reproduce catalogue text.

“Full” and “partial” documentation labels indicate how well each entry is corroborated in the underlying sources, not an audit of the car’s physical paperwork. Names of recent or living owners are withheld for privacy.