I've been looking for one for my 1951 Henney-Packard too but they seem to be made of unobtanium!

I was a regular at Vintage Auto Parts even as a teenager and loved just going out into their yard. The last I was there they had started paving under all the cars so the Packard row was on concrete and in more recent years I had some emails with the brothers who owned it who, to my surprise, remembered me. I would not usually drive my 1940 Packard there but more often than not it was one of two 1957 Fords that I had at the time.

As for the vintage store near you, it just closed a couple years ago right before COVID not too long after I first discovered that they existed. Although I bought nothing from them for myself, I helped out a fellow in Europe with a tuneup kit of various bits in pieces mostly sourced from them when it wasn't available locally where I live now in California.

Check out my Yma Sumac site at SunVirgin.com!

Keith, you must miss the vintage auto parts house that used to be there in Puyallup! For some years in the '60s and up to around 1972, my 1941 Henney-Packard was stored on my grandparents property in nearby Sumner where I used to spend time visiting and working on it as I lived a little farther north in upper eastern Bellevue.

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My former 1964 Imperial Crown Limousine by Ghia had a trunk that rivaled its opulent interior! I never saw a trunk so nicely done but no surprise as when new the car cost more than a Rolls Royce.

Anyway, pushed into into the crevice between the wheel housings and the fenders should be a heavy rope-like material of a rather large diameter, maybe 1-1/2" or so as I recall, that also got flocked with the rest. Off hand I don't know of a source for it but maybe someone else knows or has photos.

Snide comments and character assassination aside for a comment that wasn’t meant specifically to you but to the general Packard owner, Olson’s is a family owned and run business and deserve all the kudos they can get if we want them to be around to make the more complicated gaskets that can’t be hammered, chopped and chiseled out ourselves.

Actually, I order a lot of gaskets from Olson’s as my shop is about 700 miles away from were I live so I have to be sure that whatever I need for the next round of work is there waiting for me when I get there. If I had to stop to make a gasket whenever I needed one I would not get any of the actual work done. Shipping is amortized to next to nothing for each one when I order multiple gaskets at the same time. For special gaskets, I always supply a full description and model fitment so that the next person can order with confidence that it will fit their car.

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I forgot you have a local electronics store or maybe even a hardware store , they would have stand-offs.

In event, the 1940 that I verified did not have an anti-theft number either. Between the < and > triangles it was empty.

Welcome! Liking Packards is good enough and we are happy to answer questions to non-Packard owners. That said, '50s era Packards are quite affordable, especially sedans, and a good way to learn mechanics at the same time.

I was 16 in the '60s when I bought my first Packard (which came with a parts car) and by the time I was 17, I had at least four so it is addicting!

Those are Marsden nuts, invented by a Packard employee and are used in many places on Packard. Larger ones are used for the bumper bolts on some models, they are inside Ultramatics and even my Henney-Packards use them for the driveshaft support brackets.

Very nice. Olson's gaskets can supply these in cork too and their prices are excellent with fast service. One of them finally eliminated the leak on my 1954's aluminum head outlet!