Re: Now it's those wonderfuul wipers.....

Posted by Craig the Clipper Man On 2013/4/11 7:24:36

Let's face it ... we are the kind of guys who enjoy driving rolling anachronisms. After all, how many cars today still have carburators as standand equipment? Even seat belts aren't standard on these cars. You have to accept the fact that Packards are not modern cars and employ technologies that have long since been abandoned by modern manufacturers. I guess the key here is to make what you have on your car work as well as it can -- which was more than sufficient in the 1950s -- and take pleasure in the fact that more the half of the people who see your car won't have a clue as to what it is! The alternative is to turn it into one of those high-end rods; you know, a Packard body basically riding on a Lincoln frame powered by a GM 455 cid V-8. Whether the wipers are vacuum or electric is simply a matter of choice. Craig (which is my name too) is right about driving around in a 60-year-old car in a raging thunderstorm -- most of us would likely run for cover under an overpass!