Re: 1951 Dietrich Limo

Posted by gonesouth On 2015/6/29 15:03:07

Caribbeandude you are right. I spoke to the seller this morning and expect to hear back with body and firewall numbers. He told me that he bought it in California and drove it back a number of years ago. It is currently powered with a 288, but the deal includes an optional 9 bearing senior 327 that is partially disassembled and could be rebuilt and installed.

It is his understanding that it was built on the line in Detroit as apparently Packard owned the Dietrich name at that point.

While the car and price are attractive
It is about 3000 miles from me, and flights would be $1000 return to go looking and getting it home would cost more than that.......tough decision.

On the other hand, it would be a special car to own, one that both my wife and I could drive, and wouldn't need much restoration........the back seat has sun damage to the broadcloth unless I wanted to put the original type 327 back in.