I have a full set of shocks, arms and links for a 29, selling for a friend. They're all done and painted but I don't know how long ago. Send me a message if you need them and we'll figure it out.

Thanks ever so much. I never worked on a Packard before, your insights are, well...


That was directed at Cole BTW

There's a sale on Haterade next month..

I'm bumping these up. Fits all 127" WB Clippers, usually beat up and harder to find than Lincoln (cough-cough) Continental. Can't believe I mentioned a lincoln!

Anyways, good parts. If you want clear better shots email me and I'll send em along.

We took the water pump off the survivor 41 160. I had 2 choices to get the bottom bolt off. Remove the motor mount (?) or clearace it with a rough rasp on a die ginder. I took choice 2. The center mount is like brand new and not sagged out in the least. In fact all the mounts are wonderful and sound, solid. I found it rather unusual that there'd be such a dire clearance issue there. The car has 35,000 original miles and doesn't even "sag' up front like nearly all 160s do. All of us 160 mavens know what I'm talking about, that's a hefty engine. How did yours go? And yes the belt was a lesson in cursing proper.

Permatex or Indian Head shellac types are superior. Messy, PITA, but superior. It's also not a "some's good so more is better" thing, just a nice easy coat on the block surface then to the gasket on the pump which will hold it in place. I hate RTV for anything but an oil pan, and sometimes not even that but you do you.

PPG still makes their 9000 series black lacquer. It's needed in the furnature and musical instrument industries. Take a tranquilizer before you get a quote (!) because it isn't cheap any more. FWIW, ppg/Ditzler acrylic lacquer is almost always the right black. Our OEM black is usually a bit brown when you sand it. Sounds funny but after 45 years of painting trust me, it's a "brown" black and what you want. The old DuPont was a deep "blue" black and was always good for teens thru early 20s repairs. Newer materials are a bit grey when worked to a finish against an OEM. If you want the deepest blackest black in the industry go with House of Kolor (HOK) black in any variant. Follow the old instructions and you can't get deeper and blacker than that. It is a urethane, but their basecoat black is also super deep and rich and can be topcoated or even mixed with nearly anything. 1st impression is always how expensive HOK might be. The cost vs others is a shock, at how much less. I haven't bought any in a while so with everything else draining our finances lately (petroleum distillates!) it wouldn't surprise me to hear it went up. Ask, or message me, I can offer some tech support if you need it. Just don't be in a rush, I don't visit regularly but do check in. Good luck...

Just in from the "This topic is useless without pics" dept, a picture of one from a 32 dated July 8th, 1932. My birthday (not birth year!).

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I'm wondering who, if anyone, has made sense of the test drive decal/sticker on the V-12s as found on the passenger side glove box. I know as time progressed the "AF #" was typed in, earlier variants had it put down in pencil. All I know is that it was done, there's an AF number involved, and that usually the test driver initialed the sticker when it was put on. Is there a list? What does "AF" stand for? When was that adopted? I'm very familiar with what was written in Ed Blend's wonderful book on 34s, but this practice, to the best of my knowledge, continued throughout the V-12 production run. I searched here, searched google, duck duck go, nuttin. I'm fairly certain the cars were taken by truck in groups to Utica, but also think some were tested in the big expanse near the Grand Blvd plant (also had a testing facility). Looking fwd to links, info, direction, etc. Thanks in advance.

Pure sacrilege to say it in the open, but Bob Drake (cough-cough) Ford parts has a multitude of various trim clips. Auto production was wrought with simple standards back then. Seems something on my 41 was the same as my 39 (cough-cough) Ford. Wait, did I say this inpublic? Horror! Like knowing which early VW parts fit a 6 figure Porsche?


Have a nice day (as he runs off)....