Re: ‘39 Coupe realistic restoration

Posted by flackmaster On 2021/2/4 23:15:33

You will be 20,000 leagues under the sea if you pay someone else to restore this. Even if you have buckets of sweat equity and an equal amount of talent, you will still be over budget and time. The only rational reason to dive into this would be if it was "the car of your dreams". Otherwise, the following applies -
Firstly, highly unlikely any sane Packard person would think otherwise from the above.
- Second, yes, the coupes are highly desireable by the streetrod crowd. This is most likely the market for the body and chassis.
- Following the above, if the engine can be resurrected, that is to say open it back up again as the assembly lube has long past its sell by date, and verify everything else is in order, get it fired up and listed for sale. The cost to rebuild one of these engines would certainly suggest you have something sale-able.
- And yes, the balance of the parts not necessary to make the sale of the body/chassis to the aforementioned streetrodder, are definitely worth sorting and getting back into Packard owners hands. No, you're not gonna fund the college educations, but will certainly help with the beer money fund.

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