Re: Authenticity vs. Modification

Posted by Anonymous On 2009/4/11 12:45:03

You apparently did not read my present ( or past ) posts correctly. Lets try it again.

FORD PASSING PACKARD
Didn't happen. Had you read my post, you will see it was a super-charged Chevrolet from a generations-later technology era.

MY DOG IS BETTER THAN YOUR DOG
Someone should have explained to you this is not a religion; it is a hobby. It can be a FUN hobby if you dont lower yourself to childish silliness. Pick what YOU like and can afford, and be happy! If you glance over to someone else's stuff, no matter WHAT he has or you have, sooner or later you are going to find someone else has a bigger, longer, heavier, and more capable one than you.

Let that bother you and you are going to go nuts, and be a grouchy, resentful pain-in-the-part-that-goes-over-the-fence last.

Turboman and others in this forum, thru their mechanical expertise, have figured out ways of correcting some of Packard's screw-ups on the last years of Packard, and made pretty reliable fun cars out of them. READ their posts on technical issues as to the later year Packards.

I personally prefer to keep my vehicles as stock as possible. True, I am not adverse to using quartz-halogen headlight bulbs hidden behind the authentic headlight buckets and lenses, in the pre-sealed beam cars. True, I did a lot of "swapping" of parts when I was working on '51's - '54'. Had fun. Never let it worry me that a '38 Buick Century coupe could out-drag my Twelve. Never let it worry me that the DOZENS of post 1950 Packards I had over the years couldn't beat a garbage truck in a drag race. I liked em for what they were. PACKARDS !