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Re: phil88m6's 1936 120B convertible
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phil88m6 wrote:......The attached photos are the completed brake work........

Ahhhhh, the magic of computers, but no photo's?

Posted on: 2009/1/13 1:37
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

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Re: Carter WA-1 Carburators
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Not an answer, but yesterday I received the "Illustrated Packard Buyers Guide"(Refer Packard Bookshelf) I bought off eBay recently. First page it fell open to contained the following, see pic. The co-incidence that there should be a post about carbs for the 6's I just couldn't let go by.

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Posted on: 2009/1/12 18:59
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

What's this?
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Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: Phoenix Packard dealership
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Turbopackman wrote: Cornerlot, you might want to add your car to the registry, before a certain "unscrupulous" individual comes in here "demanding" it.
Other than that, WELCOME! And sorry I can't answer your question.

G'day Cornerlot,
First, to Packardinfo

Second, Contrary to the aspersions Eric would cast upon my good name, I "invite" new Forum members to add their Packard to the Owner Registry together with a pic, any known history and how they acquired it. There is no follow-up except to acknowledge the entry in the Registry if and when I see it there.

Third, I too am sorry I cannot a help with your query.

Posted on: 2009/1/12 15:32
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

What's this?
Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry!
Here's how!
Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: Are you offended by my posts?
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Pat,

It is a pleasure to have you aboard Packardinfo. Any of your "modifications", if I remember correctly, have been out of necessity coupled with availability and mechanical reliability issues. That is one fine looking '34 which is a great example of Packard motoring. All I can say is:

Posted on: 2009/1/12 14:55
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

What's this?
Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry!
Here's how!
Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: Mal's '41 120 Coupe
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Monday 12th January 2009

After doing my civic duty by donating blood went to Grippy Rubber for:

Rubber tubing for the radiator overflow.
Rubber stops for the petrol filler cover on the rear fender.
Rubber stops for the tops of the B pillars.
Large rubber grommet to fill the hole in the carpet for the accelerator pedal rod.

Then at the workshop installed the rubber tubing routing it down through a hole in the front crossmember and it exits about 4" below the '41's undercarriage. Also clamped it to the radiator frame so it doesn't get chopped by the fan. Using a little rubber grease Wade inserted the filler cover stops and pushed while I pulled the stops "tail" using a pair of pliers from underneath the fender. The preferred rubber stops for the B pillar had a body diameter too large for the mounting hole so a fallback stop was used. And the large grommet? Not quite large enough! So I'll drop into Grippy to pick up a bigger size grommet next time I'm in the vicinity. Too bad I can't take the old grommet back but after punching a hole through it, it's now unreturnable.

Fitting the new wiper blades to the wiper arms was more involved than I first thought. Looks like the arms I have may not be "correct", either that or the wiper blades are not "correct" or both! Last Friday when I did the trial fit of a blade to an arm I selected the wrong mounting holes. Sure they fitted but the holes they are supposed to be fitted into wouldn't engage because the "jaws" on the wiper blade were not wide enough. But after some delicate surgery by Dr Wade they now fit. Surgery involved bending and straightening the "ears" on either side of the wiper arm hook to gain just enough clearance. And they now function perfectly. Mind you these are ELECTRIC wipers and there weren't any other options available so they HAD to fit.

The two door mounted side mirrors also need some attention. The left side, although not "show quality" was reasonable but was loose and rattling, it turned out to be secured with self-tapping screws. One of which was pushing the door skin away from the frame from where the skin folds over the frame. A quick drill into the folded over skin then re-tightening and, VOILA, that problem was fixed. Still a rattle though, because the glass in the mirror was also loose in it's frame. A little "blue-tac" judiciously applied at a couple of points and no more rattle. The right side mirror as previously mentioned was useless, because you couldn't see it from the drivers seat! The mirror with the long arm, bought at the Crookwell swap meet, looked like it would do the job though. Except I now learned that it was metric and the nut Wade had scrounged up for it from John's junk box needed to be only half it's present thickness. Clamped the nut in the vice and hack-sawed it in half. Was surprised that it was relatively easy to do so even though having to rotate it in the vice jaws tended to have the blade "stick" a bit but a little care and attention helped to finish that job. Also drilled out the bracket clamp as the new arm has a larger thread and squared off the now slimmed-down nut in the grinder. A gasket was jointly manufactured by WFI and MBM to protect the paint on the door edge and the new mirror installed. Perfect, can now see down both sides of the car!

What more to do? Wade had handed over the Clock to Barry last week to be passed on to his brother for repair. Probably won't see it back for a couple of weeks at least. But a clock isn't a necessity, even if we have make do with a sundial in the meantime using the rotary radio aerial and the shadows it casts! Rang Brian about the front-end alignment, recorded message again so will try later this week. Wade then rang Tony, the blue-slip inspector, and tomorrow after 2:00pm he's available. Tony asked Wade a number of question over the phone and they were all answered in the affirmative so it looks positive. Will dig out all my paperwork on the '41 tonight and contact insurers tomorrow morning to obtain cover for Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Insurance and Green Slip(Third Party) Insurance. Then, all going well, the government in the form of the Roads and Traffic Authority will issue 1 years road registration for the '41 with the appropriate taxes and charges being applied of course. By the end of tomorrow my credit card will be smokin' hot. Then all I have to do is pay for it!

And on Sunday there was a Committee meeting about our 2009 National Packard Rally being held in March. It was at Packardinfo Forum member DavidM's place and David passed on to me an original '41 Owners manual. This had been offered to me by Ross, a Canadian who's restoring a '23 Sport Tourer and he and David have been corresponding because of David's '22 Sport Tourer and his expertise with these vehicles. Turns out the father of a friend of Ross's had died and amongst his possessions was this manual in very good used condition. Ross offered it to me for the princely sum of a pic taken of me and the Manual together with the '41. How could I refuse such an offer, at such a price? And being at David's place I got to see the '11 Maxwell he bought from the US last year. And what do you V8 and S8 guys with oiling problems think about the drip/splash feed total loss oiling system on the Maxwell?

And last week I was surprised to receive an email from an upstate New York couple, Hannah and Bron, about attending our National Rally. Seems my name and email details are in The Packard Cormorant to contact for info on the Rally. Me and my big mouth! Anyway they are arriving just before the Rally ends but will able to attend the Friday run to Kiama on the south coast, probably the best run of the Rally, and the Farewell Dinner and presentations that night. And of course, in my own inimitable way, I pointed them to Packardinfo and you can now see their lovely '27 Roadster in the Owner Registry EDIT - Anyone looking for their '27 Roadster in the Registry won't find it! My apologies to Hannah and Bron However I've added a pic of it here from the East Grand Packards Site. Maybe Eric is right when he calls me "unscrupulous" and "demanding". No one is safe, you have been warned!

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Posted on: 2009/1/12 2:55
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

What's this?
Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry!
Here's how!
Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: Aust Packards
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Appin wrote: Back from a few days off and did get some time to look at some nice Packards at an undisclosed location:........

John,

Looks like you went a long way to get those pic's, as it's about 800 miles or 1350 kilometers to South Australia, as the Packard rolls.

And here's another one of the '50 Convertible.

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Posted on: 2009/1/11 3:19
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

What's this?
Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry!
Here's how!
Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: Charge Trouble
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carlmadsen wrote: I've replaced the brushes in my generator,.......1952 Packard 300........

G'day Carl,
Somewhat but see you've added your '52 300 to the Owner Registry so

Posted on: 2009/1/10 14:16
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

What's this?
Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry!
Here's how!
Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: ZIS-115
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On display at the Sydney International Motor Show October 2008

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Posted on: 2009/1/10 1:47
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

What's this?
Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry!
Here's how!
Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: Packard Swap Meets. Where are they?
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Russpackaus wrote:.......You better keep an eye out for this Aussie too .......It took a little effort to get Joanne interested in the 13hr flight from Sydney........ only 2 miles from Disneyland, that also got 9yo son Daniel real keen..........fly from LA on Feb 12th........

Russ,

Lucky b*****d, and with Joanne and Daniel too. One day hope to get there myself to shake Kev's hand.

Pity about the return trip, means you'll get back after the P.A.C.A. AGM on the 8th. But not to worry as I'm sure you can be easily nominated, seconded and elected inabsentia to a position not of your choice!

Posted on: 2009/1/10 1:05
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

What's this?
Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry!
Here's how!
Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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Re: Mal's '41 120 Coupe
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HH56 wrote: Looking good. Just out of curiosity, I notice a few cars you took pictures of have the same amber light assy on the bumpers & other cars have nothing added.. Is there an Australian requirement for a particular item on certain cars or just personal preference for a particular unit?

Howard,

Thanks, the '41 is finally "looking good" after many months of not looking good at all.

As to the amber turn indicators or blinker lights this is a personal preference and safety thing for most. Vehicle registration regulations permit cars to be registered as stock standard when they left the factory whatever their age might be. However should an owner fit things like turn indicators, or say seat belts, into an "old" car for safety reasons that car must then always have those fitted to be registrable. I have chosen to fit turn indicators to the '41 to make driving in traffic easier in this day and age, especially as it's a LHD car in a RHD country! Trying to do hand signals from the wrong side of the car and with 90+ percent of current drivers not knowing what a hand signal is(a gesture yes) is a losing proposition. And they are going to be nice and because originally they came equipped with 12V bulbs, but now have double filament 6V bulbs with both filaments wired into the one circuit. However I'm not fitting seatbelts although these are directly safety related. Might depend on how Kath feels when we're out in the '41 so that could change. And another thing, turn indicators or blinkers must be separate lights so the US practice of the tail/brake light flashing is not acceptable here regardless of originality. So that's why you see US cars(50's, 60's, 70's) with aftermarket blinkers screwed onto their fenders/bodies because of that. In fact Wade with the '37 Super 8 has the US type(Shhhhhh!) but is looking to convert to the bumper mounted units, and I think Jeff with his '52 is also thinking of doing the same from the email I received from him today. Old cars on the road can be a big enough distraction in themselves to other drivers without the added complication of other drivers not knowing where we are going or intending to go.

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Posted on: 2009/1/10 0:40
Mal
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Bowral, Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia
"Out of chaos comes order" - Nietzsche.

1938 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

1941 One-Twenty Club Coupe - SOLD

1948 Super Eight Limo, chassis RHD - SOLD

1950 Eight Touring Sedan - SOLD

What's this?
Put your Packard in the Packard Vehicle Registry!
Here's how!
Any questions - PM or email me at ozstatman@gmail.com
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