Todds 1930 733 7P Sedan

Posted by tfee On 2011/9/19 15:44:11

With this Blog I intend on keeping a record of the restoration of my 733 to something a little bit different. I'm already about a year in to it but I've spent most of that time hunting down parts and taking the car car apart slowly and photographing everything so I can put it back together correctly. The car is from Ohio and I don't have any idea who owned it in its previous lives but time has not been kind to this car. The car started as a 7P sedan but at some time it was cut down to a club sedan and the work was substandard and never really completed. It's also been in an accident and the frame is bent up a bit in the front. Someone has also cut off the bumper mounts and all the expensive bits have been removed from the car.

That's most of the bad news, the good news is that it's 90% complete and it's exactly the kind of Packard I was looking for: a car so far from perfect that it would not be a good candidate for a spot on restoration. My plans are to turn it in to a 734 Speedster Sedan at least visually.

This will require that the body and engine be pushed back 7" on the frame and that a new longer hood be fashioned. In addition, the roof will be getting a 2" beauty chop as Packard did on the original speedster sedan.

Here is what the car looked like when i received it:

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