looks like it did not sell at the auction? wonder what high bid was?

gorgeous car that appears to be restored as a fun driver, I wonder what color code is on the door post plate? I've ran across 6 to 7 red cars but never have verified a true data plate indicating an original red car. I have verified two black X code cars

30 years ago I helped install an original 1956 400 gas tank into a 1953 Patrician with a tank that had more holes in it than swiss cheese. The neck on the 56 was slightly longer (about an inch) when we placed the tanks side by side. We went ahead and installed it anyway to get the guy back on the road and it was a tight fit. That's why the filler hole and cap nearly touches or does touch the flap door and the cap barely goes on. Last month I saw a new Kanter tank installed on a 51 Convertible. I noticed the same issue again. The neck appears to be slightly longer on the Kanter repo tank just like the 56 tank was. Looks like the Kanter tank was built like the 55-56 tanks? However; I just checked and they indeed have the same Packard part number. I'm getting older but I do distinctly recall the 56 had about a 7/8 to 1 inch longer snout.
Does anyone have two tanks they can place side by side? Was this ever mentioned in a period Service Counselor? thanks!

I remember this car and Roy quite well

To be honest, I think your car looks GREAT WITHOUT the whitewall tires

you get injured and sued

I have a new Phillips 55-56 caribbean windshield for sale or trade but it has some separation/bubbling on the edges.

let it go, pay it and move on.... life's too short, this is just a hobby

now using this description further below, virtually any Packard ever made would be a coachbuilt car. But I'm not buying that. I'm using a definition virtually identical to what Rolls-Royce used that help differentiate between a Coachbuilt late 40's/1950's Silver Wraith and a Production body Silver Dawn or Silver Cloud:


coachbuilt construction
Definition: "noun"-- a vehicle layout incorporating a separate chassis frame which serves as a carrier of all drive train and suspension parts, the vehicle body itself not forming an integral structural part of the vehicle.

Based on the definition of coachbuilder - "a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles", For Postwar classifications I would consider any non-factory built body that is contracted to another entity to build would be considered a coachbuilt car. Included in this definition would be ANY Henney built model as described in:http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/h/henney/henney.htm

I would consider this megacool 52 limo to be coachbuilt. I would consider the 53-54 Caribbeans and 51-54 Derhams and 1951 127" wheelbase Dietrichs to be simply modified cars and not coachbuilt cars. If the 55-56 Caribbeans were shipped as convertibles to Ionia (as I think they were) then I would simply call them modified also. I would consider the Packard Monte Carlo, The Balboa, The Predictor, and the Panther-Daytonas to be coachbuilt also. The Request was simply a modified car due to no "integral body shape/structure" changes were made.

Of course this is all just my own opinion but a line needs to be drawn between simply a "modfied" car and a true "coachbuilt" car and this is how I would draw it. Thus to be coachbuilt the actually body of a car needs to be built or rebuilt to a significantly different configuration as produced from the factory production line.


PS I like that Jaguar E-Type Series 3 bonnet too!