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Undoubtedly I think they were supposed to be temporary. With no disrespect to those who want to re-add them to their cars now, they were honestly very tacky to have on a luxury car and I'm confident Packard expected owners to remove them at their convenience. For example, the label that was posted recently that was on some 30's cars, reminding the owner to read the manual, plastered directly over the clock face. Surely they did not expect that one to stay for long.

Also, I know there are various home-brew solutions for printing labels, but the difficulty is generating an image of satisfactory authenticity off of some random photo of an ancient label. Similar to how making a convincing reproduction of nearly any car part is harder than it looks.

That is correct, nondetachable heads on the 1st Series Twin Six.

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Matt, my dear friend, I watch this space for over a decade. I hope you will forgive my impatience as I ask you today to share with us the very special photos of this Jesse Vincent Packard Speedster that a friend gave you on May 26th or 27th, 2012.

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It's not easy to inspire you after what seems like an extended birthday celebration - but it's definitely worth a try. You were interested in this thread back then. -> There starts its continuation.
Attached you will find a picture of the Soviet approach at the time. What do you think of this arrangement?

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I would think there are several built in or even free apps that could reproduce the labels or decals. Avery also offers an online tool that utilize their paper labels although I don't know if decals are part of it. For home use, there are different kinds of paper including, surprisingly, transparent plastic like materials for the typical water transfer decals. That one is available for both inkjet and laser printers.

I have wondered about the various Packard decals or if they are even decals rather than just cheap paper labels. Packard seems to have used several over the years and placed them in prominent places on otherwise nicely finished surfaces. Question in my mind is since they still appear in photos, were they supposed to be a long term thing or just supposed to stay until the operator was familiar with a feature.

I lean toward temporary because if long term I would have thought they would have chosen better quality materials and gone to more effort to place them neatly. The sloppy placement can be seen in a couple of the photos of 24th series ign switch labels that have surfaced where the labels are crooked and somewhat haphazardly positioned. That blue print label on the pushbutton pod above is also not that neat even allowing for half a century of wear.

I have heard that the first series Twin Sixes did not have detachable cylinder heads.

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Olson's gaskets had never heard of this either but they put me in touch with Barry Lowe at Gatsby Auto Works and he had the same thoughts. Several of his cars have the same cork in the valve cover. I will re-assemble with a new piece in place.

I could make a convincingly original design in GIMP sometime.

Yup, I forgot my dead blow last time but I'll either tap thru the valves or just take the heads off and make sure this problem is rectified.