Re: Peterson's 1940 Packard

Posted by West Peterson On 2017/10/20 12:48:39

As mentioned at the beginning of this tangent, my goal was to raise the AACA status of this car to Senior, which would allow us to show at an AACA Grand National Meet at sometime in the future. For that, I had to spend two full weeks under the hood and under the car to clean off the 15,000 miles and some 20 years of driving. Several bolt heads were discovered that had hardening marks on them, which is not allowed. There were several places in the paint that needed touch-up paint, and the wheels were looking very ragged with chipping of several areas around the rim and spokes due to flat tire repairs.

We took it to Iowa for the National Meet in Bettendorf, and were successful in getting an AACA Senior.!! \

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