Packards Under The Oak

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The Florida Packard Club Tour is in Mount Dora, Florida this year, April 4-7. See The Florida Packard Club website for itinerary, registration form, and special hotel room rates.

http://www.flpackardclub.org/home.html

Reminder that The Florida Packard Club meet is this Sunday in Sarasota, Florida. Hope for good weather.

Also open to cars 25 years or older. Free admission and open to the public.

Our former FALL MEET is now a WINTER MEET!

SAVE THE NEW DATE—Sunday, January 28, 2024
Don’t look for a Packard Meet in Sarasota in November. For various reasons, our Meet will be held in January, from now on!

Our 31st Annual Florida Packard Club Meet will be held on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024 from 9:00AM to 3:00PM; a different month than in the past, but the same location as always—Jacki Kaiser’s “Wit’s End” in Sarasota. This is a beautiful green setting amongst majestic live oaks, with great friends and great Packards—who could ask for more! Lunch is available to all, and FREE to Packard drivers. The address is 2805 Sarasota Golf Club Blvd., Sarasota FL 34240.

Non Packards 25 years or older are also welcome. Open to the public.

http://www.flpackardclub.org/club-events.html

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When I did mine, I used hydraulic jack oil as suggested in some earlier post on the site. I jacked up the front of the car, put wood blocks under the frame to keep it off the ground, removed the tire and used a bottle jack under the wheel to raise and lower it to work the fluid in and just repeated the process until it was full.

My 1941 7 Passenger sedan is off to the restoration shop to have collision damage repaired. The accident happened last November on the way to The Florida Packard Club meet when a woman ran a red light.

https://youtu.be/hvxZJ36-Xeo

Just hub caps on my '37 115C Sports Coupe.

"Can you still get parts for it?"

"Is that a Rolls Royce?"

"How much did that cost?"

From the USS Yorktown National Park Service website:

"Named for the CV-5 aircraft carrier that was sunk during the Battle of Midway, the new USS Yorktown had a distinguished war record, receiving 11 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation for its World War II services. During World War II, the USSYorktown fought against the Japanese for more than two years, inflicting heavy damage on the Japanese at Truk and the Marianas, helping sink the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial Japanese Navy'sYamato and supporting American ground troops in the Philippines, at Iwo Jima and at Okinawa. The USS Yorktown was converted for jet use in 1955 with the addition of a new angled flight deck, hurricane bow and flight deck. It then served as an anti-submarine carrier in Vietnam. In 1968 the Essex class carrier was used to recover the crew of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the moon. Before being decommissioned in 1970, the USS Yorktown had a notable career in the service of the United States."

I did not know this. Kind of confusing this far out in time.

Thanks for the information. Interesting. As I had never given it much thought, I would guess then that the mystery tank mounted under the floor on the outboard side of the driver's seat would maybe be the hydraulic fluid tank? The car no longer has hydraulic windows. A previous owner had converted them to electric that is run off a separate stand alone battery in the trunk. This set up works, but it requires periodic charging of the battery back there.