Re: Packard 22nd Series Sedan Left hand door handle wanted

Posted by Michael Evans On 2012/3/10 10:17:09

Thanks Howard for your input.

I know to my cost about the different handles as the only reason I started hunting for some replacements was that at the dismantling stage of my car the front left hand door "bezel" was broken, consequently I purchased some more "bezels" but when delivered they had the second hole for a screw from the outside - we didn't check the old handle through the "bezel" until recently - they don't fit together at all !! Hence the new hunt for a complete door handle/bezel unit.

Your comments have raised more doubts however.

My car IS for sure an early one (1948) and as far as I am aware has only ever had the handles you see (on all 4 doors) strangely enough though the donor car found by another Member is a 1949-50 22nd Series and has the handles matching mine.

This doesn't correlate with MY handles - so maybe MY handles were replaced ? Adrian who did the first restoration on the car when in Africa did have acces to another donor car so maybe the handles came from that ?

Again Thanks and my Best regards Michael