Re: Packard 1929 640 Runabout

Posted by DavidM On 2014/1/20 5:08:37

Tim,

Thanks for that its very interesting, there is always something new to learn on this site, I will let the owner know, he wants his car to be correct but would like to wood grain the mouldings.

I was not aware that any 6th series cars had wooden steering wheels, all the ones I have seen were black.

Speaking of steering wheels, I restored 2 633's both with black steering wheels that had large pieces of the black material broken off exposing the wire reinforcing. In both cases I rebuilt the steering wheels with fibre reinforced plastic filler (bog)and sprayed them with 2 pack black, as an interim measure until I could find good wheels. I am still looking and the repaired wheels are not showing any problems. One of those wheels was repaired over 10 years ago. Maybe it will prove to be a long term fix .