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While I don't live down south now, I can tell you we've seen snow. That's the stuff on the tv screen when the ol' lady don't hold the antenna right.

While the Packard is "down for the winter", I'm going to try registering it again with the DMV. My last attempt finally came back as denied. Should this final attempt fail, I'll just drive it how it is but only in my local 5 mile area. This time I'm going to try getting a different title and regular registration. I'd have to get an annual saftey inspection but the car will certainly pass that. One thing I've learned thus far is to never, ever buy another car that has antique or classic branding on the title again.

Looks to be the extremely rare "Pepto-clipper"

Around here in northeast PA, I've only seen 2 in my lifetime and one of them's mine. The other one is in Carbondale. There's got to be more just still in hiding. Around my place in Georgia, Packards from 30's to the 50's can still be seen in driveways and yards regularly. Right behind my house, there's a scrapyard that specializes in 30's to 50's cars and parts for movies. He's got over 100 cars just outside let alone what may be in storage.

In 1975 my parents got married and I was still 2 years away from being.

Don't forget to clean out the rear axle vent. Sometimes it's plugged and could cause seals to fail. Mine was plugged but I cleaned it before driving.

I agree that the Packards were built and engineered way better than the average car for the time. My 48 steers, stops, and handles bumpy roads much better than my 59 Edsel.
While the 58 Edsel went too far in styling, I thought the 59 was just right. Compared to most, the 59 Edsel was one of the more conservative cars. Just look at a 59 Buick! Yuck!

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Good thing since that made an extra year of my favorite Buick body style available. They were one of the few cars that looked "new" after the war because they restyled in '42.

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Love the gray one. Is that Lowell grey?

While the decline of sciences and mechanics in this country is obvious, not too many of them can fix their modern cars on the side of the road either because they can't bring their lab with them. Really, the "shingles" and "sheepskins" don't prove what someone is capable of. I'm a maintenance tech at an industrial plant. I work on everything from the forklift and lightbulbs to 480v heaters and half-million dollar gearboxes. I have no formal training or even high school, yet I see the "pros" wire things backwards and overthink a 15 minute job into 9 hours with no progress. I got this job based on the car I drove to the interview alone, a 73 buick. I'm sticking with the old tried and true technologies and stocking up on them while I can.