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Hutmo wrote:
07.12.2023
Ellingson motors has a tri color convertible for sale. Anyone know anything about this car?
https://www.ellingsonmotorcars.com/inventory/915/1955-packard-caribbean-convertible
Can you take a look at the undercarriage images? Thoughts? I do not know these cars but I really think this thing is good looking.
No need to discuss pricing, just wondering how correct this vehicle is.
Thanks
Chris
Ross has already pointed out the minor strangeness underneath.
Inside, the lower cushion seat bolsters are too flat and should be much puffier.
Nice to see reflective red Scotchlite hexagons on the wire wheel center covers –as they came from the this way from the factory. Repop covers are painted red..
However the glaring item I see (that no one seems to have noticed) is the Cadillac Eldorado batwing air cleaner. For those who might argue, there it is! Sitting right there on top of the carburetors.
As I told someone who doubted me at the recent PAC National Meet... Cadillac Eldorado batwings will drop right onto a Packard Caribbean engine. Just turn them backwards.
SOME Cadillac batwings have larger hanging pots than Caribbeans and can hit the rocker covers. Otherwise everything fits.
Dead giveaway clues are that this car has a Cadillac air cleaner. The chrome drawer-pull knobs holding the pots (Caribbeans used special wing nuts) and the diecast chrome "V" symbol on top of the housing. Cadillac stuff, not Packard.
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