Re: I was offered to buy a 1948 Packard and have some questions

Posted by JeromeSolberg On 2021/12/17 18:21:22

Well, if it's a 288/327 the engine is not particularly difficult to work on, and all the parts are available through vendors like Kanter and Max Merritt. I think the same is true of the 356 excepting it is larger and heavier so more trouble, perhaps, if for some reason it has to be pulled from the car. If it "used to run", find out what that means. Does it still turn over? Does it have spark? Does it have fuel to the carb? Is the carb gummed up? Remember these cars are all 6-volt positive ground (unless someone changed it), which means among other things good connections are comparatively more important than in a 12V car.

On a car that hasn't been run for a while, sometimes you just have to crank it for a while to get fuel into the carburetor. The problem could even be as simple as that, or maybe something even simpler such as a dead battery.

$4800 isn't outrageously low for a car that doesn't run, but of course it is important to know why it doesn't.