News and Features

Now is the time to register your interest in our next major rally to be held in early March 2022. Download & complete the attached Registration of Interest form Read More

Motor Vehicle of the Month – published in the Magazine of the South Pacific Packard Club July 2019: PACKARD MOTOR MUSEUM 1954 Packard Limousine By Geraldine Craw Read More

Stutters and Studebakers and Packards too– published in the Magazine of the South Pacific Packard Club April 2019: WORKHORSES SHARE TOP BILLING AT NAPIER FESTIVAL Text and Photo by Jacqui Madelin. Read More

Art Deco to Hobbiton tour taking in East Cape and Coromandel has concluded Read More

We are all looking forward to the Napier Art Deco Festival marking the 90th anniversary of the 1931 Hawke’s Bay Earthquake. Five days of fun are in the offing. Time to polish those gorgeous cars until they sparkle and grab your glad rags. Your shiny shoes may need to walk you through a variety of events across restaurants, cafés, bars, theatres, galleries, music venues and parks throughout Hawke’s Bay. Hats will be tilted to watch the skies above too with the welcome return of the Art Deco air show. It is truly wonderful that this community has been rebuilt from the rubble and now hosts such a vibrant event. The time to celebrate is very near. Three cheers to Art Deco!!! Read More

Featured is this 1956 Packard of Peter Chaney’s from Wellington. Read More

“Ask the man who owns one” was Packard’s slogan, so we did, but, in these enlightened times, we asked his wife as well. A morning with Graham and Pam Giacometti and their spectacular 1934 Super Eight roadster gave us a good understanding of why people choose Packard. Read More

On the 23rd of September Glenys and I left for Adelaide to attend the Australian National Packard Rally which was a themed Rally to reenact the service taken by the Webster Hire Car service of the 1920/1930`s. This service used Packards for their Fleet, they ran from Adelaide to Victor Harbour, and had 3 new 633 Packard 7 passenger limousines and a tourer to start. Read More

The 1947 Clipper that we purchased from Dennis Mitchell approx 10 years ago Read More

The Packard was a 1918 Twin Six driven by Selwyn Craig, the first Packard to be imported into New Zealand as the official car for Governor General Lord Jellicoe. Read More

Seven NZ South Pacific Packard members headed to Tasmania for the inaugural Trans Tasman Packard rally which involved a 13 day rally around the island. Read More