almost missed Wade's '37 120

1092 - 28253

353445 - No triangles

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Next John's '39 110

1700 - 2038

T.J.R.

And TJ Richards body number 84544

Some Australian Packard have locally built bodies which differ from those from the US. This one by TJ Richards uses a body shared with Studebakers of the same year! Has a separate plate for the locally built body and has T.J.R. stamped into the firewall!

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Next my '38 Eight

As you can appreciate it didn't come with a plate and the decal is looong gone!

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Next Wade's '37 Super 8

1016 - 275

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Next Kevin's '35

803 - 1532 Also without dealer and delivery date

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Dave,

Meant to do this when you first posted this request some little time ago. But here we are now and I'll do a separate post for each car.

First up - Wade's '34

Wade only has the two body plates at the workshop, the body being on the other side of Sydney and when I see it I'll update with the thief-proof number. The story here on the two plates is that Wade is restoring a '34 and the body was burnt while in the body/paint shop a couple of years ago. He found a replacement body in the US and that body is now in the body/paint shop waiting to be painted.

Original Plate 716 - 446
Replacement 716 - 143

The thief-proof number to come will be for 716 - 143.

EDIT - Note the 716 - 446 plate doesn't have the dealers name or date stamp but it was delivered through Kellow-Faulkner in Melbourne.

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Gerd,

Good to see you getting your hands dirty.

Friday 5th December 2008

A year and a day to the day it last fired up the lusty roar of the '41's 282ci Packard straight 8 could be heard resonating around the walls of the workshop! Well, maybe not resonating, but it runs! But before doing so, first up the distributor cap was removed and Wade aligned the rotor with No 1 terminal with his trusty eye. Then following another burst of "Start you Bastard" Wade turned it over and I operated the throttle linkage manually, first to pump some gas into the engine then to keep the revs up. Sounded real good, music to the ears in fact, although the tappets were a little noisy, there weren't any knocks or other costly noises. And when Wade hit it with the timing light it was spot on the mark on the harmonic balancer. What an eye, what a guy!

Next I turned to the leaking thermostat housing while Wade once again dived under the dash to hook up a few loose ends, so to speak. Took off the upper radiator hose at the top tank then undid the thermostat retaining bolts. Checked the surface of the housing and it had a "channel" for want of a better term on one part of contact face. Cleaned this up on the wheel and also made a new gasket and re-installed the lot for a second time. Added about a gallon of water, and what happens? Same result, a flow of water but this time from the outside centre of the housing. What to do? Why make another gasket of course, but this time out of cork much thicker than the gasket paper previously used. A bit harder to cut the cork than the paper but got there and re-installed the lot a third time. Re-filled with water and no leaks! A much much better result than before.

Fired up the '41 again and, still no leaks! Let her run for about 10 minutes and again, still no leaks! Wade put his temperature sensor on the engine. And this blew me away as I'd never seen or heard about this tool, it's amazing. A tiny hand held device which throws a beam onto the part you wish to monitor the temperature of and displays a digital reading. I couldn't believe it, temp on head in various spots, on side of block, on welch plugs or wherever. And best of all they were all reading below about 160 degrees. Also checked oil pressure - good, temp gauge working - good, ammeter charging - good and fuel gauge working - great!

While Wade returned to his underdash endeavours I diversified to increasing Dave's (Owen_Dyneto) data base of Packard I/D numbers. Took pic's of what Wade had for the '34, Kevin's '35, Wade's '37 120 and Super 8, John's '39 110 (you'll have to create a separate category for Aussie Packards, Dave) and my '41 120. I'll update the details to your post tomorrow as it's now past midnight here, way after my usual bedtime. Last thing we did was re-install the front windshield interior trim surround, a job in itself because it's pretty hard to align the 21 screws required with the holes they came out of. But because Wade's done this before he had a technique which worked well, otherwise for the novice it'd be a nightmare.

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Victor for including your 400 in the Registry. Looks nice in the pic, could you add that or another pic to your Registry entry?

Thursday 4th December 2008
It's been a year today since the '41 was backed into the workshop, so

Didn't expect things to take this long but a combination of parts availability, scheduling and plain underestimating what I was up against contributed. It's a standing joke around our house whenever Kath, my wife, asks "how much longer" I'd say "a couple of months". This has been my constant refrain since December 2007 and was said in all sincerity and continues so to this day. Although now it's "a couple of weeks", fingers crossed. It would be a nice Christmas present.

Anyway, enough of the navel gazing. Only a couple of hours at the workshop this morning, Wade having a dental appointment late morning and Kath and I enjoying our granddaughters in the afternoon. My arrival at the workshop was rudely interrupted by the thought I'd left the NOS coil at home so a 25 minute chunk of time was lost in backtracking to pick it up. Also put another 20 litres of unleaded in and the fuel gauge shows a bit more than 1/3 full, a win there.

The matter of spark was somewhat different though. Used a spare coil of Wade's in the end to check we had spark and it worked, but nothing coming out of the distributor. So pulled it out of the '41 and on the bench realised that by having one set of the dual point setup not operative it grounded the current required. Out with the redundant points, fabrication of a new wire to link to the remaining set of points and a general tightening up of all fittings and back in the car. This time there was spark! However still wouldn't start, even with another dose of "Start you Bastard". It would seem with the fiddling in and out of the distributor that timing setup is now sufficiently off to prevent ignition. We'll pick up the running tomorrow when time isn't a critical factor.

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