Re: 1937-115C bumpers

Posted by fred kanter On 2011/2/3 0:32:18

CORRECTION

Packard supplied two different bumpers with or without trunk rack on both junior 35-39 and senior cars 37-39. The one with trunk rack had greater curvature at the ends to tuck it into the corners of the body. If you use a non-rack bumper on a car with extended bumper brackets and a rack, the tips of the bumpers would stick out and tend to get hooked on bumpers of other cars.

With trunk rack the square guards were supplied to allow the rack to fold down. They were mounted on the inboard bumper bracket holes, the same place that the tall pointed guards were. The car shown with the rack and tall guards mounted outboard of the rack is incorrect, someone drilled extra holes.

ON switching front to rear. The front of the frame is much narrower than the rear, you cannot switch bumper face bar or complete bar/bracket assemblies.