Re: Packard Monte Carlo

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/11/1 13:21:21

Anyone know the car well enough to know if that's a correct statement?

No, but I'll be seeing the current owner in a couple of weeks and I'll try to remember to ask him. I have no doubt it's pretty heavy up front.

Owner of the Request between about 1974 and until just a few years ago was Larry Dopps of Oregon. He found the car rotting away 1974.

EDIT: Went back and read the two articles on the Request from some 30 years back. It's a driveable car, though poor handling. The two bronze U-shaped bumper sections are cast in bronze and said to weigh about 200 lbs. each, and the grille bars between 6 and 12 lbs. each. Of course this is offset a bit by the absence of the conventional bumper and grille. Also the hood is fiberglass. It's built on an early number 400 (5587-1003), was finished in late 1954, and curiously has no thief-proof number on the cowl.