August Keller Drove Eight Hundred Miles to Decide What He Was Selling

In October 1923, August Keller loaded his 1916 Packard Twin Six and drove it west out of Davenport, Iowa on the Lincoln Highway. He had owned the car for seven years. He had bought it in April 1916 because it was the most advanced production automobile in American history and because that spring his hardware business had finally run in the black after twenty-two years of work and the car felt like evidence of something. The Packard Twin Six was the first twelve-cylinder production car ever built. Not just in America. The first anywhere. Packard introduced it in 1916 because their engineers believed no other configuration was sufficient for what they wanted to build. This video is the story of one man who bought one of the first Twin Sixes sold in Iowa, drove it four hundred miles west to Omaha and four hundred miles east back to Davenport, and sold it three days after he returned. The buyer never knew why it took him three days to sign the papers. The 1916 Packard Twin Six production line closed in 1923, the same year as this drive. August Keller's car was parted out four years later in 1927. The engine outlasted everything else. August ran Keller Hardware on Brady Street until 1941. He never bought another car that cost more than necessity required. If you want more stories like this, a real car on a real road with a life behind the wheel that meant something, subscribe to the channel. And tell us in the comments. What car. What road. Where it took you. The cars remember everything. So do the people who drove them. #vintagecars #americanroads #vintagecarstoriesusa #americancarhistory #goldenageamericancars #eraofchrome #americancarera