64avanti wrote:
Looks like a screaming deal on a '56 for about the price of Chrome & Paint work?https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/packard/400/2301300.html?fbclid=IwAR03tSOmVglibkHme1TZbKdoW2J0PWH-u0Os9gDe-CMI-H8Op2VWX05vPjc[/quote]

This car must have been very striking as originally built in its original color. The real original color was solid Maltese Gray metallic, not 2-tone blue and white. It was obviously specially ordered when new.

And while it is fabulous to have factory air... it is far more fabulous to have actual working factory air. Haven't seen a working one in years and years except for a hybridized customized unit.

As for the repeated references to "genuine Kelsey-Hayes chrome wire wheels"... K-H never made the wire wheels used on Packard 1953-1956. Those were all made by Motor Wheel Corporation, NOT Kelsey-Hayes. Even Jay Leno is on YouTube claiming Caribbeans had "Kelsey-Hayes wheels"... This is a myth that just refuses to die.