Just in time for Christmas!!!!. Finally got he overdrive working consistently on my 54 convertible. The only big thing left to do is put in the new carpets. This has been a 21 hear project. Everything is rebuilt and working !!!!!!!!Tho the windows are a little slow coming down.

This site has been a life saver for me.


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the Packard lovers on here.
John

About 4 or 5 years ago i was in Boulder, CO walking in the downtown mall area, sitting out where anyone could play a tune. It was a perfect piece for a perfect evening. it was a Packard upright piano.

About 4 years ago i had the opportunity to ride in a packard powered P-51. It was a fund raiser for the Olympic Air Museum near Olympia Washington. The experience was amazing, fantastic and one i will never forget.

I get why pilots loved this plane. Packard missed a great marketing window with this engine.

John Meehan

There was a TV series in 54 starring Ralph Bellamy as a detective. Packard sponsored the show so that everyone was driving a Packard. He drove a 53 Mayfair. It seemed bogus to me at the time, i was about 13, as everyone was driving a packard or a clipper, and they never seemed to be going that fast even in the chase scenes.

THe hubs are pretty reliable marker, but what stands out is the crease in the side of the hood marking the shape of the radiator.

really looking forward to this meet. cant bring my Packard, but ill be bringing some stuff to trade sell or give away. getting in on fri nite driving in from seattle.

john

Check with Tom Crook in Kent WA as he is a Packard dealer. He gave me a great recommendation some years ago for shipping my 54 convert across country.

john

Packards have been always there in my life. The first i remember was my fathers clipper fastback bought in Florida. He kept it until the end of the war and sold it as part of financing his own construction company. I can remember the Cloisonne hubcaps, the skirts over the back wheels. It was a metallic green. At the same time my mothers family had only driven Packards. My Aunt had a silver metallic 110 convertible her grandfather had given her when she graduated from high school. My Fathers mother at the same time had a 38 v-12 four door convertible. Again the cloisonne caps, the window that rolled up and down between front and back. She kept it until about 1947 and traded it on a chevy business coupe with my father and uncles pleading with her not to let it go.


My maternal grandfather had a 47 packard, a 48 convertible, a 51 200, 52 250, 53 cavalier, a 55 clipper custom. These were the ones i was able to see. I was able to drive the 53 and the 55. My father was finally flush enough to buy car and bought a 56 Executive sedan, with a lot of goading from me. My first Packard was in 59-60 and it was a 51 convert that i got for 100.00. THe next Packard was 56 Patrician purchased in 66. A driver that was really driven. Tucked in there was 53 clipper that needed everything but ran. In 90 i purchased a 54 convertible that has proved to be the hole that sucks money. And that is the last remaining Packard in the family. My maternal great grandfather started buying Packards to the best of my knowledge around 1913-14. His last car was a Packard blue 7 passenger 1947 limo. I only saw it once and that was after he died. So if i can hang on for another year or so it will be a century of Packards in 2 families.
THis year I was able to go to the national Packard meet in Galena, Illinois for the first time. It was a great experience as i was able to see so many of the cars that marked different times in my life. I have always loved cars, but Packards have been my total favorite.

Packard Frankford was the dealership that my great grandfather and grandfather used. The 38 12 convertible was purchased from Goldner Packard. These were Philly dealerships.

I am coming to the River Run and bringing my back issues of the Packard club magazines dating back to 1979. Dont know what they would be worth but it is more important that they go to a good home.

If there is any interest i have a 54 3peed tranny with an R-11 overdrive. I bought this from David Moe at Seattle Packard when rebuilding my current 3 speed. I paid 450 for it but more than willing to lower the price. Not sure of the condition, it was opened and inspected but not needed at the time as it turns out.

Thank you for the information. I really appreciate it.

John