Vehicle Description
1939 Packard One-Twenty Henney Service Car | Documented Patina Survivor | Frankman Motor Company
1939 Packard One-Twenty professional car with Henney coachwork a rare prewar Packard hearse / service car offered as a complete, running patina survivor with one of the most thoroughly documented histories you`ll find on an antique funeral coach. Built on the Packard Seventeenth Series 1701-A commercial chassis with the 282-cubic-inch L-head inline-eight (Stromberg two-barrel, ~120 hp), finished in black over a woodgrain dash. This is an honest car restored in the 70`s.
Coachbuilt by the Henney Motor Company of Freeport, Illinois the premier American professional-car builder of the prewar era. As a Service Car, this Packard 120 served funeral-home first-call, casket, and flower duty, and it remains a striking example of a classic Packard funeral coach.
Highlights:
1939 Packard One-Twenty (120) Seventeenth Series 1701-A commercial chassis
Henney coachwork Service Car / professional car body
282 cu in L-head inline-eight, Stromberg 2-bbl, ~120 hp
Black exterior, woodgrain dash, complete and running.
Extraordinary documentation: 1942 federal Certificate of War Necessity (E. H. Bishop Funeral Home, Bridgeport CT), unbroken Connecticut title and registration chain from 1960, typed ownership history letter, period Henney-Packard sales literature, original maintenance ledger, and decades of service invoices through 2026
Stock #10243A
A turnkey collector piece, Professional Car Society / Packard club candidate, film-and-event rental standout, or the best-documented prewar cruiser around.
Whether searched as a Packard hearse, Henney funeral coach, antique professional car, or prewar Packard survivor cars this complete and this provable rarely surface.
Located at Frankman Motor Company in Sioux Falls, South Dakota your source for classic, collector, and specialty cars since 1988.
Call 605-250-8776 or visit frankmanmotors.com to view the full photo set and complete history file. Nationwide shipping and consignment available.
*Prices shown include all incentives - See dealer for Details; Frankman Motor Company started in 1988 as a small family business that has grown from an acreage with a converted 2 stall garage as the office to the largest independent used car dealership in a 5 state area with almost 50,000 vehicles sold and over 50 employees. *See Dealer for Details.
