Re: Packard 120

Posted by PackardV12fan On 2008/10/3 9:53:46

I forgot to add something - RELAX, guys - if John needs to pick on my particular car - that's fine. I have no problem with that IF it helps bring out useful info. for the initiator of any given "thread".

Fact is, as I have noted earlier, I wasn't financially able to take my own advice when I bought my Packard ! Yeah, I paid twenty five bucks for it. But by the end of the year, (and working hard in a construction job), I'd spent well over another hundred bucks on chrome and paint.

So there is plenty of truth on both sides. DAMN..do I ever WISH I had seventy five bucks to play around with - would have bought that MINT MINT MINT '35 Packard Twelve LeBaron town car. A year or so later, I DID have seventy five bucks, and bought that MINT MINT MINT Cad. V-16 discussed elsewhere. Made a TREMENDOUS profit on it a year after that-sold it for FIVE HUNDRED BUCKS!

So you can make money on buying cars, but again, better to start out with a nice one. (oh, by the way, my Cad V-16; it is now back east somewhere, on the "auction circuit" - someone told me it went for close to a quarter million dollars!).