Then and now has good kits but the check valves are oversized too much so incredibly tight!

Nothing metric on a Packard unless some previous owner put in threaded inserts and metric studs which seems very unlikely!

I’ve known Clint since he was a little boy and lived with his family just a few blocks away from me. In fact, his father Doug was the one through whom I bought my house with its 1500 sq ft garage where I and my 22 cars lived for nearly 30 years!

It looks like a good Packard Clipper that I hope finds a new home! For an entry level non-Deluxe, it has some interesting accessories including the visor and full wheel covers along with the hood ornament mentioned in the description.

Thank you Howard. Yes, I know about the gold grille mesh and about the Executive but it’s the other seniors, especially for 1956, where I’ve seen both chrome and gold scripts. I would expect it to be gold on the Caribbean but the others seem to have both gold and chrome. Maybe the earlier ones before the gold grille mesh appeared had the chrome but that’s just a guess.

I have that book somewhere and totally forgot about it!

Dried up fluid and corrosion of the aluminum pistons which happens when the system isn’t flushed annually.

I’ve seen one with accommodation for a hose which always struck me as odd. None of my cars, whether Packard, Imperial or Cadillac have it.

Brochures were typically airbrushed into existence before the cars themselves were built so are probably not a good resource for research. For example, the brochure for my 1965 Imperial shows huge chrome LeBaron scripts on the C-Pillar when it actually got a small delicate one with a gold shadow-like backing. Looking on eBay and talking with dealers I have seen NOS chrome The Four Hundred and The Patrician scripts which is what prompted the question.

I’m talking strictly senior models and I’ve seen both. Some of the online suppliers even have both chrome and gold available for the same models.

This all-original 1956 Four Hundred near where I live is a case in point as the scripts are all chrome even if they do not look it in the photos.