Re: 1939 Packard 120 8 cyl

Posted by su8overdrive On 2012/3/17 5:04:32

Mighty fine. Savor every bit of the garage journey. When you're driving, enjoying the assembled car, you'll be glad you went the extra mile in every detail, Dr. Stocker, and may you keep her stock.

JW's soooo right about hearing that rebuilt motor come to life. When the mechanic, an ex-sprint car builder from the old days, told me he finished my '40 120's engine back in '75 ("....hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year..." -- apologies to Longfellow), i rushed to his shop. The freshly painted 282 was perched between stout wooden blocks, a copper coil like a moonshiner's still coming from a Maxwell House coffee can full of gas atop his office bookcase. I still remember that unmuffled roar.