Re: Packard shopping, what do you think of this car?

Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2022/8/29 9:41:15

Thank you everyone for your thoughts so far.

On the transmission oil cooler: "I couldn't tell what this was for so I bypassed it when I replaced the radiator."

The guy seemed mechanically inclined but knew very little about Packards specifically. One oddity is he tore the carpet out (due to degradation/moisture of course) but instead of lifting out the rear seat bottom, just cut it in front of the rear seat.

Yeah I had a hard time mentally matching up the low milage reading and door latch wear with the degraded interior. It seems to have been parked outside for quite a while. The cardboard behind the front door cards is much more degraded in the front than it appears, similar to my current project that I belive was parked outside 2-3 decades. Likewise I think the floor pan rust is similar overall, though I don't know exactly with mine because I left the carpet in.

Asking 7200. Doubt he would take less than 6000.

P.S. "point" on here has a 55 Custom with a manual transmission and no TL, parked in his garage. I can only imagine it was a special order.

P.P.S. What are stringers?