Re: Restoring 1946 Deluxe Clipper

Posted by su8overdrive On 2012/5/23 16:43:16

De nada, Doc. Have often thought it sad that the nitrocellulose lacquer used in the '30s and '40s on Packards, and other cars, got chalky, faded so quickly.
There were so many lovely, soft, sophisticated, quiet, subtle hues. You really can't get an idea looking at a tiny
chip in an old paint book, or even the rare original, unmolested, always garaged car.

So many cars wind up painted the same small handful of colors today. My car's black merely as it was black from the factory and is one of those cars that just looks right in black.

But i could easily see, if i were redoing a car, using one
of the many all but forgotten factory colors.

Their disappeance is one of the crying shames, perhaps the
greatest loss of all, as well as rarely seeing a car NOT laden with every option possible.

Now, so long as there's one Packard with that dirt brown hogs hair carpet somewhere we can all visit and feast our eyes on, perhaps stroke that coarse, funky hogs hair, enjoy the hogs hair carpet experience, that's fine. So i won't shed many tears over the dearth of hogs hair carpet akin to that you'd see in a Plymouth or any number of hohum cars.

But those original colors that connect us to the tenor of the times, their loss diminishes our cars. Mightily.

Again, '46, you've a lovely car. It deserves one of those nice original colors, as close as you can get it.

Keep us posted.