You said you have 57 Packard for sale would it be possible for me to see it in person from your reply to Randy you are located in Ohio ? If possible contact me at ackish@comcast.net I'm able to be avaiable almost any time being retired

I though he said he was selling the Clipper looks pretty good in the pictures I forget how much he wanted for it has it been on the road latley

yeah, there are a couple of foreign plates there. Sharp eyes, Keith!
After scrutinizing the vin plate a little closer I see the paint code is FD and the trim is 42. The D is upside down and the 2 is almost off the plate. This must have been done on a Monday morning by a previous Ford employee

Those are not all Pennsyltucky plates tho. I see a 1976 Mich plate on the wall.

Apparently we are all in agreement that there are issues with the compensator port even if it is only parts availability. Especialy the spring.
How can we modify the compensator port to maybe eliminate the need for a spring???? Maybe sleeve the cylinder for a piston and cup seal. Replace the comp port wit h a manual valve???

ACOLDS, your memory is right on. The gent driving the Model T at Buenie called me and asked for help. I hate to see a Packard down for no good reason. Hopefully it will work fine next week.
He's a nice old gent, but he sure loves to talk. The license plates were his Dad's originally and then he started collecting them. He said he has at least one for every year from 1901. Those early ones are porcelain.

Keith, I think the seniors for 55 and 56 are the same but the Clippers are different because they don't have the courtesy light and seem more like 51-54 fenders.

Randy. That's a good looking Clipper. I noticed that the 55 hip in the rear doors of the 55's is more pointed than the rather square curved 56's. Is the same true for the Sr's????

Randy is this the Clipper the fellow told us about at Buena Vista car show? It seems like Clipper are comming out early this fall did you see the yellow one on Ebay from Waynesburg it went for 4494. looked good in the pictures I was going to ride down and look at it but my brothers were all busy so we didn't make it. I see letters on the plate on the pictures you posted after I enlarge the view computers can help these old eyes we have.

Some of you may have read that I promised to help a 55 Clipper owner with T/L problems. I stopped down there today and believe it or not as soon as I threw the manual switch on, the car started to raise. It went so far and then would not engage again. I disconnected the turnbuckle rod so I could move it manually. I could hear the control box clicking but no action from the T/L motor. Being a 55 I grounded the "A" contact on the limit switch and the T/L motor hummed to life. I grounded the "B" contact and the T/L motor responded to that also. Some more testing convinced me that the control box was working but the internal contacts weren't making electrical contact. I removed the box and drilled out the rivets. Inside was an oxidation nightmare. I brought the box home with me and will clean it up on Monday. I think all the contacts are just oxidized. I did take some pics of the car and the license plate wall. The ID plate on the door post had no paint code or trim number - very curious. This is a good project car as it has a solid body and low mileage. I've attached the pics. The license plates go back to 1901.
In looking at the pic of the ID plate, it may be stamped for paint and trim. I couldn't see that by the light in the building and the trouble light created a glare. The last pic was taken without a flash.

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My thought is that Packard owners at least the pre-World War 2 cars and the late 40's may be members of the Packard Clubs but are also senior citizens and many have no interest in internet online activities although some like me certainly do although not officially a senior.