Taken in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic the pics are difficult to date, however, it causes astonishment to find such a car ensemble behind the Soviet fence.
The below mentioned source contains more than a few contemporary photographs.



[picture source: vanatehnika.ee]

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Here comes a detailed pic of one of the above shown Packards. It seems to show suspended armor plates. Am I right in thinking that the plates moveable or removeable?



[picture source: LIFE magazine]

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Packard with creative mirror fastening. The pic was taken before 1983, the car is registered in Moscow.



[picture source:http://www.diary.ru/]

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Dave, it might sound like a joke or the work method of a farmer but I wasn't joking when I talked about a hammer blow on the housing of the solenoid switch. While engaging or disengaging the switch can get jammed and an encouraging pat would show him the right way.




To work with a hammer is not to everybody's taste, is not a durable solution and could damage the black coating but if you are under way at a rainy night and a pack of wolves starts to howl the song of Alaska then a well-directed blow could shorten the diagnostics.

Ask a man who owns a hammer.




[picture source: www.motortalk.de]

Dave, to literally avoid a circulatory collapse a well tempered hammer blow on the solenid should be a less-than-ideal but temporarily helpful solution.






[picture source:http://www.splung.com/content/sid/2/]

The New York Times seems to be a professional Packard journal.

--> slide show

--> newspaper article (takes 5 seconds to load)

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Randy, that's an agreeable proposal. 39Pickle won.
Due to technical reasons it is impossible to meet the reserved price, which should be considerably lower than $7,500.00.

Roger, thanks, good point. BTW have you restored your car by own hands?
And when the talk is of CCCP cars, then it shouldn't be forgotten to use correct lenses. Otherwise the ZIS police would deduct points for not being "political correct".



[pic #2 source: www.eag.unicweb.ee]

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Dave, I am not as innocent as a newborn babe but in satisfaction of the hijacked thread I would like to show a way to return to Packard in the New York Times.





[picture source: www.wheels.blogs.nytimes.com]

The original ZIS part number is 308096-П.

Today all shapes and sizes of the sealed-beam system are available in Russia. To get the finest quality money can buy check Kanter Auto Products.

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