I think it's a question of semantics. In the data books they list two tone options as a combination two "schemes" - for example scheme "X" black and scheme "Y".
So even though they don't explicitly list "X" it is still there. Anectodtaly, I can't recall a year where I haven't seen a black painted car.

I love the E-type. You need a lift and a sturdy rolling powertrain table to make life livable. Once I was driving an E-type and a school bus load of kids saw me on the clover leaf. They were all pressed against the windows gawking at the thing. When I came onto the highway I dropped into third, floored it, and passed the school bus doing 90 while waving my right hand. You have to love a car like that.

It shows up on the list but not on the chips. However, all blacks are not equal. How is that for a double entendre? We had problems matching original cars because the Packard black was much darker than currently available paint.

When it was polished up the Packard black was like looking into a bottomless pit. I saw a video the other day on junktube and the guy starts raving about the paint job on the car and how deep it looked. The host says "That's because it's a lacquer paint job. You can't get that depth without lacquer." I rest my case.

West Systems makes some products that will allow stabilizing wood problems. Once I was working on a 56 and made the mistake of grabbing the fender when rolling on the creeper. Crunch. It was an original car and I put the metal back into place and back filled it with G-Flex clear. 24 hours later and you would never know there was a problem. You can build a boat with that stuff unlike those crappy TV products.

I don't own anything and not planning to given they keep talking about destroying Social Security and Medicare. That money is staying liquid. Over 15% of my lifetime earnings went into those programs. That's a pretty big lump sum check with interest. I could buy a Duesenberg with it.

For those 35-37 cars I don't know if they put any on the eight cylinder cars. A few eight cylinder cars ended up with V-12 trim and they had them.

It wouldn't take that much to make that car a presentable original, but I think the Brewster body looks better on the Buick chassis. However, given they keep talking about destroying Social Security and Medicare that extra money is staying in liquid assets.

About the only junkrod I can appreciate is the Munstermobile because they chopped up three junkrods to make it.

The rest of these junks are always the same dreadful formula. There must be a charity somewhere that could make better use of that unwanted money.

If the car was sitting on the dealer lot in 1938 they would put whatever they had to sell the car. So yes, you were told the wrong information, but I think the 38 ornament in better looking.

That is true, but I don't know when the practice ended and whether or not it was consistent. Dietrich himself was out of his own company by 1930. Here is an example.

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Why?

I love the Packard transmission. I know there is some nut advertising a synchro trans for those cars for people who don't want to learn how to drive, but the only reason I can see to shelve it is if the double bearing becomes unavailable.

Other than that, get the car moving and put it into high gear if you don't want to shift. Packard advertised that any girl could drive those cars.