Re: Build dates for early 1920s Single Sixes
Posted by Bernie j On 2012/9/18 20:11:11
Thank you for your input John.
If I could only discover anything of the cars history it may help to explain the variance between the chassis and the engine numbers. If The engine was changed it must have been done a long long time ago. When I acquired the car two years ago it had NEVER been on the roads in Australia. It was exported from the USA as a "parts car" but as I understand it, following a dispute regarding the amount of Custom's duty to be paid, it was left abandoned on the docks, impounded by the Customs and left in a bond store for the next 50 years. I live in hope that if I ask sufficient people, someone will remember an old Packard Coupe having the roof cut off and the seats and interior trim all ripped out before it was shipped to Australia probably some time during the late 1950s or early 1960s. Someone, somewhere in the US of A must have bought it and driven it before putting it into the barn or wherever it was prior to shipping it to Australia.
Bj.
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If I could only discover anything of the cars history it may help to explain the variance between the chassis and the engine numbers. If The engine was changed it must have been done a long long time ago. When I acquired the car two years ago it had NEVER been on the roads in Australia. It was exported from the USA as a "parts car" but as I understand it, following a dispute regarding the amount of Custom's duty to be paid, it was left abandoned on the docks, impounded by the Customs and left in a bond store for the next 50 years. I live in hope that if I ask sufficient people, someone will remember an old Packard Coupe having the roof cut off and the seats and interior trim all ripped out before it was shipped to Australia probably some time during the late 1950s or early 1960s. Someone, somewhere in the US of A must have bought it and driven it before putting it into the barn or wherever it was prior to shipping it to Australia.
Bj.
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