Re: Just bought a 1941 Packard 120 - Considering a frame off resto

Posted by TxGoat On 2023/11/16 19:58:22

That car looks to me like someone spent a lot of money on paint and chrome and perhaps refinishing the dash and metal trim inside. It looks like the glass is all good. It looks like it may have a new cloth headliner installed. It's doesn't need ripped apart. It needs what was started to be finished. Brakes normally leak off fluid and need repaired after a car sits for years. Parts are available to do that. You may find that the brakes are in good shape except for the rubber cups and boots.
I don't know what to think of that green paint, but the engine doesn't care what color it is. FWIW, the paint on the engine block may be original. That block is a nickle-iron alloy, not common grey iron.