Re: Trunk floor pan for 47 Clipper need any direction.

Posted by su8overdrive On 2022/5/1 15:07:18

It's your car, do what you want. But why another bogus "Ike staff car?" He never had such a thing. He, Omar Bradley, and some colonels had '42 160 or 180 Clipper staff cars in Europe, but that was it.

Why not keep your '47 Clipper as it is, good enough that Consumer Reports, who always got it right then and now, gave the Packard 120 or its Clipper variant their Best Buy rating in its price class every year 1938-47.

You've got a terrific car as is, like my friends' 1936-37 Cords, the "right" size, certainly more nimble than my 127" wb '47 Super Clipper dreadnaught. You're on the same smart wheelbase as the postwar Bentley Mark VI, R-R Silver Dawn, but better looking than either, same wb as the nice 1950-57 Jaguar Mark VII saloons, for which the XK engine was originally designed for.

Don't muck it up with war memorabilia.

If you want a war tribute, vote for anyone fighting for VA benefits, body and Humvee armor for "our troops," volunteer at a local VA hospital.

Or make a donation to Columbia University, Ike its president before his first term in the Oval Office.