Re: Packard wins Best of Show at Pebble Beach

Posted by Jeremy Adams On 2013/8/20 14:51:01

From Dale:

"We're proud to have been a primary part in the restoration of this wonderful car. I believe that this is the most important example of an American car with a factory production chassis."

From me:

I'm compiling an easy to use online photo gallery of select photos from our portion of the restoration, which we finished in early 2012 before passing it on to the owner of the car's chosen shop to do the finish work.

Since many of you appear to have interest in what it takes to restore a car like this, I hope this gallery will give you an idea of the sheer amount of work that is required.

I'm updating the gallery as quickly as I can, and more photos will be going up as the week progresses (it's a time consuming process). The "download original" link below each picture will bring you to the full resolution version of the image so you can see up close details.

There will be 200-300 photos on there by the time I'm done, in all we took several thousand during the process, but that of course is way too much to show.

Here's a link to the gallery: http://www.bonecreeper.com/packard.html.

Oh, for Tim: The color of the top that the owner chose could actually be correct, or close to correct. Dale's old friend Bob Turnquist once showed him color samples from 1934 Packard convertible victorias. You are correct, they are all tan, but there were apparently 15 shades of tan. Typical Packard, eh? We had nothing to do with the upholstery or top, but the gallery does have some factory photos of what the original would have looked like.