Re: Various CL Pickings
Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2022/2/6 15:18:25
Fair point Don, to me it's worth considering that those options were $700 each in today's money; maybe not worth it if you're only driving it a couple times per year. And Spokane is not exactly warm, fair weather most of the year either. Obviously a Patrician is not cheap but, eh, save money where you can? I would imagine the dealer just ordered it in that way.
Marty, for me one aspect is: if any of us owned this car we would probably be fixing every little thing and making it concours ready. But if you owned a car for 70+ years and did only preventative or necessary maintenance, this is probably how it would end up. Wiper motor not working from old rubber, the capacitors in the radio and clock probably blown from age (electronics usually last only a couple decades even in the most stable environment before a capacitor failure), radio vibrator froze up from disuse, who knows. Even though each of these costs only a few hundred dollars to fix, for a car that's worth only $15k you wouldn't fix them if you're flipping it. Even at the time most of these were off the road in like half a decade so as reliable as these older cars are in some ways, no one designing the accessories cared about multi-decade longevity, same as in today's cars even. Anything from the 90's and up will be an absolute nightmare to keep on the road in 40+ years due to the computer systems failing. I wouldn't be surprised if in 50 years there are more 60's cars on the road than 90's cars. Whether the odometer was rolled back or not, this seems like a normal amount of failures for a car of the Packard era. Obviously no hard feelings all around.
Not cleaning that stain on the front bench just seems lazy to me, though...
Marty, for me one aspect is: if any of us owned this car we would probably be fixing every little thing and making it concours ready. But if you owned a car for 70+ years and did only preventative or necessary maintenance, this is probably how it would end up. Wiper motor not working from old rubber, the capacitors in the radio and clock probably blown from age (electronics usually last only a couple decades even in the most stable environment before a capacitor failure), radio vibrator froze up from disuse, who knows. Even though each of these costs only a few hundred dollars to fix, for a car that's worth only $15k you wouldn't fix them if you're flipping it. Even at the time most of these were off the road in like half a decade so as reliable as these older cars are in some ways, no one designing the accessories cared about multi-decade longevity, same as in today's cars even. Anything from the 90's and up will be an absolute nightmare to keep on the road in 40+ years due to the computer systems failing. I wouldn't be surprised if in 50 years there are more 60's cars on the road than 90's cars. Whether the odometer was rolled back or not, this seems like a normal amount of failures for a car of the Packard era. Obviously no hard feelings all around.
Not cleaning that stain on the front bench just seems lazy to me, though...
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