Re: PackardDon's 1956 Clipper Custom Sedan

Posted by Packard Don On 2020/3/14 11:25:18

The back is indeed very low and it means that for most of the work I do under the hood I need to use a step stool! I'm 6'1" and still can't reach anything with it like that. Of course, the distributor being at the back center on the engine was a special challenge and I'm not sure how to get to some of the spark plugs.

I'll be here a few more days but the main task is to try to get it back into the shop. It came out one of the front doors, pulled by my father's electric mobility cart (a repurposed golf cart), but there is now a car lift at that door so I have to somehow get it around to the side door and up a little step as the ground has sunk or, more likely, eroded at that side since the building was built.

To add to it, we woke up to a little snow this morning. Although it should melt off during the day, it will probably remain cold. It got so cold and windy yesterday early evening that I had to close up and walk the block back to the house about an hour earlier than I had planned.