Next project, 1939 Packard
July 23rd, 2013, 11:32 AM
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Powertouring Packard?
Looks solid for it's age. 
Will you start a thread on the rebuild
under non-Olds?
Looks like you may have your hands
full with it. You have some help, yes?
Looking forward to it's progress, good
luck with it Eric.
Will you start a thread on the rebuild
under non-Olds?
Looks like you may have your hands
full with it. You have some help, yes?
Looking forward to it's progress, good
luck with it Eric.
July 23rd, 2013, 01:47 PM
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The plan is to get it running and driving and then decide what to do with it. We have no clue of the value as it was either a hearse or an ambulance. It is a Henney Packard Professional car.
Yes, redoldsman it is needy.
Eric, I think a lot of that will buff out.
Ken, I always wanted to go to the Packard museum and the Auburn Festival.
Trueblue, it's my buddies car, he pulled it out of one of his pole barns. He has a lot of old cars in various states of disarray. I've been playing over at his place on his stuff for some time now. Basically I can have all the fun and none of the expense. We take turns on projects his and mine. Projects are always more fun and easier when you have someone to work with on them.
This is his back yard behind the shop. He also has another storage area at his welding shop across town.
Yes, redoldsman it is needy.
Eric, I think a lot of that will buff out.
Ken, I always wanted to go to the Packard museum and the Auburn Festival.
Trueblue, it's my buddies car, he pulled it out of one of his pole barns. He has a lot of old cars in various states of disarray. I've been playing over at his place on his stuff for some time now. Basically I can have all the fun and none of the expense. We take turns on projects his and mine. Projects are always more fun and easier when you have someone to work with on them.
This is his back yard behind the shop. He also has another storage area at his welding shop across town.
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July 23rd, 2013, 04:13 PM
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If he needs some help halling off some of that scrap I have an empty trailer.
That Packard is cool. I worked for a restoration shop in highschool and he were doing a Packard for the Great American Race. The guy that built the motor was way up there in age and was his final motor. He had worked for Packard when they were new. His name was Last and I always remember the emblem they put on the cowl Last motor by L.C. Last
That Packard is cool. I worked for a restoration shop in highschool and he were doing a Packard for the Great American Race. The guy that built the motor was way up there in age and was his final motor. He had worked for Packard when they were new. His name was Last and I always remember the emblem they put on the cowl Last motor by L.C. Last
July 24th, 2013, 07:29 AM
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Oh yeah!
Did you know that the Great Race Museum used to be here in Mayberry up to a few years back. Plenty of nice and some extremely rare cars were on display.
Well as soon as we get the body back on the 67 Vette Roadster we will start on the Packard.
If he needs some help halling off some of that scrap I have an empty trailer.
That Packard is cool. I worked for a restoration shop in highschool and he were doing a Packard for the Great American Race. The guy that built the motor was way up there in age and was his final motor. He had worked for Packard when they were new. His name was Last and I always remember the emblem they put on the cowl Last motor by L.C. Last
That Packard is cool. I worked for a restoration shop in highschool and he were doing a Packard for the Great American Race. The guy that built the motor was way up there in age and was his final motor. He had worked for Packard when they were new. His name was Last and I always remember the emblem they put on the cowl Last motor by L.C. Last
Well as soon as we get the body back on the 67 Vette Roadster we will start on the Packard.
July 24th, 2013, 09:51 AM
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Guy here in town had a 1948 Henney Packard hearse. The guy who did my Toronado had that job too and he said he had never seen so much sheetmetal on one car. And just about ALL of it needed working.
The Henney's owner was eat up with Harley-Davidson and painted it orange and flat black with H-D signage all over it, and put a plywood coffin and plastic skeleton in there too. It could have been a real showstopper in the right colors, but instead it looked like a bad Halloween cliche. A kid in town had a mid-80s Cadillac Superior painted pearl white with purple flames and a nice set of 17" wheels and it just looked way better (he had also stuffed an Olds 455 in place of its weenie 307).
Airboddy to their own tastes.
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