Re: 1956 Packard Patrician for Project or Parts- Asking $3,000
Posted by Carl Jr On 2023/12/14 15:02:46
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William - Thanks again for all your feedback. I greatly appreciate your 1st hand assessment and feedback.
Wow - placing a Packard Patrician in that light... Except for the fancy options, I never would have seen my Dad as owning a car like that. He usually talked about the used Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing that he decided not to buy circa 1961 because he didn't want to maintain it's mechanical fuel injection. Dumb factoid - it seems that while digging out from WWII, Mercedes outfitted the 300SL with a Messerschmidt fuel injector. Seems like very different times from today...
humanpotatohybrid wrote:
Interesting, Howard, but I don't think that is the same one. We'll have to check the video.
Carl, as a side note I realized when I got home that your car is almost completely optioned out. No idea if it has the twin traction diff, but other than that it's only "missing" the dual rear antennas (a pretty rare option except on the convertible, and the second one is only aesthetic) and the wire wheels.
The MSRP would have been around $6,200 for this car, nearly $70,000 today. Pretty expensive when you consider that, with 68k miles on the clock, it basically cost a dollar per mile amortized and adjusted. In some ways, it's like buying a $200,000 car today, nearly the price of something like a Bentley Flying Spur.
William - Thanks again for all your feedback. I greatly appreciate your 1st hand assessment and feedback.
Wow - placing a Packard Patrician in that light... Except for the fancy options, I never would have seen my Dad as owning a car like that. He usually talked about the used Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing that he decided not to buy circa 1961 because he didn't want to maintain it's mechanical fuel injection. Dumb factoid - it seems that while digging out from WWII, Mercedes outfitted the 300SL with a Messerschmidt fuel injector. Seems like very different times from today...
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