How many Packard Standard Eights are left in New Zealand?
Unicorn 1 in 1,168,718 on the road Built 1930-1948 Sold new in New Zealand
Updated from the NZTA Motor Vehicle Register, counted as at 31 August 2026. Recounted every month.
When Packard dropped its six for 1929, the Standard Eight took over as the entry to the range, the smaller of the straight-eight cars below the Custom and De Luxe Eights. It was still a large, expensive car by any normal measure, and it was Packard's volume seller in the early Depression years.
Still on the road, by model year
The most are from 1930: 1 still registered. Every year is listed under the chart.
Every model year
| Model year | Still registered |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1948 | 1 |
What Unicorn means
Spotto grades every car by how many are still registered in New Zealand. With 4 still registered, the Packard Standard Eight is Unicorn: the grade for cars with fewer than 5 left.
By how many are left it ranks equal 6th of the 11 Packard models and equal 2,380th of all 2,903 cars in Spotto's catalogue.
The six grades: Common, 8,000 or more · Uncommon, 1,200 to 7,999 · Scarce, 175 to 1,199 · Rare, 25 to 174 · Super rare, 5 to 24 · Unicorn, fewer than 5.
Seen one?
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