The Bill Allison 55 Patrician
Posted by jmmfranklin On 2010/3/8 21:14:40
Hello,
Citizens Motorcar Company, America's Packard Museum in Dayton, OH, would like to announce that we are going to start a sympathetic restoration on the 1955 Bill Allison Torsion Bar Suspension test vehicle. The car was donated to the museum several years ago by Bill's family, though due to it being a Detroit car nothing could be done with it without substantial work so it remained in storage. Now time to solicit some donations and get car on display. I had it dropped off last week and we have in the first storage bay in the basement and have begun to collect parts. What is great is that I have a fair amount of documentation from day 1 of this car and also the private papers of Bill Allison (the designer of the torsion bar suspension). P.S. have any of you seen pictures of car before when new - hint = originally it was painted ( ED ) and has a trim code ( 62 ) - all powder blue lower with darker blue top (now improperly has blue lower accent so as to deal w/Detroit rust and blue around windows).
JMM
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Citizens Motorcar Company, America's Packard Museum in Dayton, OH, would like to announce that we are going to start a sympathetic restoration on the 1955 Bill Allison Torsion Bar Suspension test vehicle. The car was donated to the museum several years ago by Bill's family, though due to it being a Detroit car nothing could be done with it without substantial work so it remained in storage. Now time to solicit some donations and get car on display. I had it dropped off last week and we have in the first storage bay in the basement and have begun to collect parts. What is great is that I have a fair amount of documentation from day 1 of this car and also the private papers of Bill Allison (the designer of the torsion bar suspension). P.S. have any of you seen pictures of car before when new - hint = originally it was painted ( ED ) and has a trim code ( 62 ) - all powder blue lower with darker blue top (now improperly has blue lower accent so as to deal w/Detroit rust and blue around windows).
JMM
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