packard cars any of you have or collect them

JOCCO · Nov 8, 2011

Was always facinated buy them and there aircraft/boat engines Any of you ever have one or collect them?

Icuby · Nov 8, 2011

A customer of mine has a 1950 packard 4 dr w/40xxx actual miles that his parents bought new. He just recently put on 4 new wide white wall tires. He doesnt drive this,just sits in the old garage.

agpilot · Nov 8, 2011

jocco: there is a National Packard club.. Use Google..

JOCCO · Nov 8, 2011

A shame

JMOR · Nov 8, 2011

(quoted from post at 17:59:14 11/08/11) Was always facinated buy them and there aircraft/boat engines Any of you ever have one or collect them?

ow here is something really sad, but at that day in time, no one wanted to keep old stuff. Sure wish I had it in the condition it was in when as a teen age'r I drove it & parked it right there to rot for the next 50 odd years!!!! Makes me really sad......especially when I think about what it would have been worth today if it had been taken care of & sheltered! Beautiful burgundy velvet upholstery! We trashed many Model A's too........no one wanted old stuff in the 50's. Dad bought most for just what he thought the tires would sell for.

Tom in TN · Nov 8, 2011

JMOR,

I probably would never get around to it if that old car was mine, but I wonder if there might be a demand for some of the salvagable parts that are on it. Headlights - fenders - any engine parts - bulk of body - frame/suspension parts- etc.

I would think that the collectors would be interested in buying anything that isn't truly trashed.

Just a thought.

Tom in TN

Ultradog MN · Nov 8, 2011

I never owned one but a good friend of mine had a 53 Carribean that I worked on, drove and even built a tow hitch for and pulled it to Denver.
He has passed on and I don't know what happened to the car. Picture is off of google. His was about in the same condition and color.
The car was enormously heavy - like close to 3 ton - because of all the extra framing, etc they had to do to make it a convertable.
Straight 8 cam and crank look odd to our V8 eyes today.
His had a rare but hardy 2 sp dyno glide (or whatever Packard called them) Most of them still had 3 on the tree.

JMOR · Nov 8, 2011

(quoted from post at 21:45:32 11/08/11) JMOR,

I probably would never get around to it if that old car was mine, but I wonder if there might be a demand for some of the salvagable parts that are on it. Headlights - fenders - any engine parts - bulk of body - frame/suspension parts- etc.

I would think that the collectors would be interested in buying anything that isn't truly trashed.

Just a thought.

Tom in TN

didn't have time or inclination to mess with it, but hated to see it go to crusher when the ba$tard telco used eminent domain to beat us out of the property, so I gave it to a Packard restorer in south central Texas. They sent a crew to pick it up. Hope it helped some old Packard live on.

Old Roy · Nov 8, 2011

I have to agree..

There is more metal in one fender left to make a new car today.. I'd advertise parts .

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