Re: KPack's 1954 Panama

Posted by Packard Don On 2024/4/4 21:27:41

Having just taken out and disassembling all the seats from my 1956 Clipper Custom, I found no burlap sacks around any of the springs except for those in the rear center arm rest which your Panama doesn't have. Mine needs the rear seat springs replaced and I had hoped that a rear seat cushion from my 1954 Patrician would work as both use the same formed foam pad but the hump over the axle shaft is noticeably smaller on my 1954. Curiously yours looks much like the one in the '56 but, of course, it's otherwise totally different due to being in a 2-door car. I wonder why the difference in the hump for two cars the same year no matter the body type as I would expect the hump to be the same.

As I wrote the last sentence, I think I know the answer. My 1954 is 5" longer, pushing the rear seat 5" farther back where the hump is tapering away! I should just delete this and give up but someone somewhere sometime might find it helpful.