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Owen, My car will vapor lock after it's been idling a long time stuck in traffic. It seems to keep running OK until the traffic lets up and you are trying to accelerate up to highway speeds again. The engine cuts out but will catch again after a short distance.

You know I hate to add or change anything. Is there anything you know of short of installing an electric fuel pump? I have already had the mechanical pump rebuilt and it works perfectly. All the insulators are in place as well as the heat shield for the pump.

Don't you just love environmental progress?

Does anyone have any part / model numbers available for speed lights over the years?

i.e. this Trippe model was the senior model for the following years....., this Trippe model was the junior model for the following years

sizes would be a help too.

There seems to be a number of different sizes and models produced. I have spent a few minutes looking, but can't find anything web based.

Thanks
Dongle

I suspect people of 6' 2" were a smaller percentage of the population in the 30s than today and may well have been given a bit less consideration in dimensioning the seating positions, and seats had less adjustment, usually none up and down though you could raise or lower the steering column a bit with a kit. Perhaps the enclosed dimensioned section diagram of a 1934 Super Eight coupe-roadster will help you answer your question. These dimensions are relatively typical of the mid-thirties. Remember that it was quite in vogue for custom body builders to use lowered windscreens, though they may also have lowered the seat position as well. Another point about seating is that the front seats were actually quite narrow, strictly 2 people, and not a lot of extra room at that. If you want similar dimensioned drawings for the closed cars or other body styles, just say so.

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I'm curious about the seating position of the open PREwar Packards. (Roadsters, convertible etc.)

I'm 6'2" tall. Would such a person be looking out over the top of the windshield frame or maybe directly at the top of the frame or sitting appropriately looking about center of the glass????

As you likely know well, '56 production numbers are somewhat of an ongoing mystery.

55PackardGuy, please clarify a bit for me what the mystery is, I thought this data was guite firmly established.

N E X T P R O J E C T ???????????

Are you trying to get me killed. Whatever my next project is, rest assured it will not involve any kind of car restoration, not if I want to remain breathing and happily
married. LOL

Gusha, here's a few more of the 34 LeBaron series. The Bahre roadster picture is from a calendar I believe. The quad picture of the roadster, coupe and 1108 phaeton are all from the Marano collection, along with the Vignale. The black phaeton is also Bob Bahre's. And the other coupe is the Zeccardi car, the one opdated with a 35 nose.

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Kev, we're having more snow tonight if you'd like to come back to NJ.

Guscha. We share the same affinity for our tastes in cars. About my only attraction to any motor vehicle for collecting purpose is EXTERIOR STYLING. I don't really care about the interior nor eng'ring of a car. Some of the most beautifl cars ever made suffered mediocre mechanicals. Cord, Jag, and even the 55-56 Packards among others.

It's the styling i'm after. The mechanicals can be corrected even if it takes an SBC conversion to do it as last resort.

OR, just like a woman, the only thing that matters is beauty.

Gusha, great picture and aren't those 1106 LeBaron roadsters just phenomenal! I believe at one point, perhaps at Pebble some years ago, all 4 were on the field at the same time. They all have interesting histories of ownership, especially the Chappelle car with the murder of an owner wrapped into the story. I believe these pictures are of the Sternheimer (spelling?) car. I should give photo credit to someone for these pictures, but forget just where I got them from.

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