Oops, that's your second thread, --> there is number one with a suggestion in it.

We are living in a free market economy. Everyone is free to offer, nobody is obliged to accept. Thank goodness!




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Randy, thanks. We have a similar development, so called car residences. It seems to be an absolute winner of a business idea since almost every year the operating company opens a new location.

Steve, your knowledge about prewar bodies is beyond any doubt. Please understand the following question as display of interest instead of disbelief.

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Is that statement also true for all-aluminium bodies or is the talk of single elements like hoods, fenders, window frames and cowl panels (often polished to achieve a special effect) but less often partial bodies and as distinct from composite aluminum and wood full body constructions (lightweights) ? la Brunn and far away from cast aluminium bodies ? la Pierce Arrow? To give two examples of leading prewar coachbuilders I don't remember seeing all aluminium bodies from Dietrich and Rollson.

As a side note I would like to mention that Kirchhoff worked with duralumin.

Mal, on second sight, living in Australia and driving a Packard but not knowing you would mean to live in another Australia.

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Phil, our member Alvin14 from Southern New Jersey owns a Packard with --> aluminium body made by --> Derham.





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Hi Phil, welcome to PackardInfo.com.

I remember that your fellow-countryman Mal was talking about --> Holbrook-bodies, made of aluminium.

--> This way please to the mentioned thread. A couple of months ago I have seen a pic on PackardInfo.com with at least two aluminium bodied Packards standing side by side on display in a museum or collection but don't know where to find.

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It looks to me that Canada scored a hit and the LWB confederations prize cup 2011 goes to Austin, Texas.

BTW I know for sure that our duty cineast Mal is an expert in the field of rear windows ...


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John, with view at the below shown photograph which can be found in the model info I think the short horizontal grille bars are correct for a 1941 Clipper.




As for the LWB I trust your eyes more than mine, knowing that you own a Clipper.

The web contains some few information about Bulgarian Packards and contrary to Russia even a couple of postwar cars.



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I believe that it neither is a mistake to use a gauge to check the basic setting (at least I can't see the mistake) nor to clean everything before follow up, accurate reassembling and measuring. Even the best hydraulic valve clearance, the priciest grinding instrument and the cleanest sealing surface don't make up for a wrong basic setting.

Dave (JD), I hope you will forgive me my objection, perhaps I didn't quite understand. Cleaning, using suitable tools and measuring aren't alternative methods. The same goes for the basically freedom from maintenance and the necessity for a correct basic setting. They depend on each other. It may looks like hairsplitting but the mentioned 0.030 inches are more than seven hairbreadths.

BTW, to convert hairbreadths into inches and vice versa use the below mentioned link. Unfortunately the link contains an apostrophe and therefore I can't embed it. Copy and paste it into your browsers address bar.

http://www.convertunits.com/from/hair's+breadth/to/inch