Joe

I had a 41 160 for about 5 years. The accessibility on most things under the hood of 41s is near non existent. To replace the belt, I finally put a little soap or some such on the belt and on the frame member right by the pulley. I took a long stick (actually it was a wooden stake that Owen has to keep his tomatoes up, this operation was performed on the street in front of his house) and pushed it through the too narrow gap. Looping it around the pulleys and adjusting it was pretty easy after that

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John Harley

Hooberitz

The unmentioned genius of Packard Styling was Werner Gubitz. He started out doing renderings for LeBaron, I believe , and migrated to Packard. He was responsible for the details and styling integration that kept Packards looking like Packards. He retired just after the, war at the age of 47 (!), with results well know to us.
The barb on the hood was a detail he borrowed from Hibbard and Darrin in Paris, inverting it to muddy the provenance.

I have attached a picture, lets see if I did it correctly

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John Harley

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Friends

I met Nate in the early '90's. He spoke at an annual dinner of the lately departed Eastern Packard Club. He had just found a carton or two of his book someplace, albeit without a dust jacket, so he was selling copies. I had him autograph mine.

When he wrote the book, the postwar Packards were not highly regarded by many people. Literature on Packard was scanty until the Kimes book in the "80's, and what existed was focused on prewar senior cars. Nate's book was valuable for owners of postwar Packards.

This was one of the reasons for the founding of the EPC in 1964. Post war cars were always welcome there,as they were not in other cubs. Much of this was due the usual car club snobbery, but I also think it had to do with relative recent demise of Packard, which rubbed nerves a little raw for a long time.

I met Nate on a few other occasions, he is always friendly, cheerful and helpful as he is on the tv show.

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John Harley

Gumby

Some of us spend a lot of time discussing this

Most probably not. Reds, for one thing were quite "fugitive" i.e. they faded rapidly. Pigments in paints back then were different and couldn't support the bright palettes that later paints could.

You can find earlier paint carts here, in this period color combinations were carefully chosen and tended towards earth tones, blues and blacks. Red was usually reserved for trim on black cars.

Red otherwise was used for fire engines and people of questionable taste.
Packard did build yellow open cars in this period.


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John Harley

Friends

Mal is good at spinning pictures around because he lives in the Southern Hemisphere


I think a better fit is a 1936 DeSoto


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John Harley

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Garret

The side with the logo faces the front of the car, the side facing the driver is white to contrast with the red fluid. There is a round cutout in the discs to denote normal operating temperature.

Dumb flapper joke my late uncle told. me As Owen would say, he was of the era.

Flapper goes into a garage and asks to buy a Motometer

Salesman says "Boyce ?"

Flapper says "No, silly, its for my car!"

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John Harley

Garret

The only differences I know of were cosmetic. There were two diameters. Shells could be plain or have a garland. The major bling was the front face plate, they were sold with insignia appropriate to the make of car. The Packard insignia has the script and a Packad powered airplane


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John Harley

Right on both counts. He' s on a cruise in the Caribbean. His Caribbean, however , stayed home

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John Harley

JW

On vacation, he will be back the 13th

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John Harley

Friends

George Christopher is driving the convertible and Earle C Anthony is beside him. High Ferry is directly behind Christopher. I don't know who the others are, but it should be easy to figure out.

As a former owner of a 23rd series I am enjoying these pictures a lot

HAPPY NEW YEAR


John Harley