Re: 1929 Packard Phaeton Wood Framing

Posted by speedster1930 On 2010/9/8 1:00:09

The 640 Phaeton wood will exactly fit a 633 Phaeton and a 443 phaeton. The only difference from the 1928 443 to the 6th series is that the firewall is flush on one and recessed on the 1929 6th series cars (necessary to squeeze the 8 cylinder engine in lieu of the former 6 cylinder in the SWB cars). The cowl wood and front doors is the same on all open cars to 6th series notwithstanding the different method of attaching the skins to the frame on the earler series where the skin was crimped over a flat piece of metal tacked to the wood on 3 sides. Packard used 2 different door pillars narrow and wide (SWB V LWB)so door pillar woood varies. Rear doors are different. SWB cars had a door that closed around the rear fender whereas the LWB had square rear doors with the wood being different. The rear bodies had minimal wood as most of the base is metal framed.

The 645 cars did not use Packard bodies - rather they were Dietrich and totally different to the 443,526,533,633 and 640 bodies (NOTE Packard did NOT offer a phaeton on the 626 other than the speedster of which none exist - that I know). I may be interested in some body wood for my 640 phaeton.

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