1939 Packard 120 Henney Service Car
VIN: 1701A2572
1939 Packard One-Twenty Henney Service Car | Documented Patina Survivor
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. A s 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, roughly 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.
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.
The Car has been consigned to the Sioux Falls Classic Car Auction hosted by the Classic Car Auction Group. The auction is Saturday, August 1st, 2026, with live and online bidding. To consign your car and/or to register to bid on this and other cars in the auction go to http://www.classiccarauction.us
