Re: Had to laugh
Posted by Wat_Tyler On 2024/2/2 10:03:49
Two years ago, Wat ran into an ad for a "1942 Packard 180 staff car" for that other general, the Eisenhower guy. Now, I intuited that they were misinformed, or full of horse apples as the case may be. But it had fender skirts!!! A pair of them. And what I thought was a decent drivers side LWB front fender. So it merited a visit. Turns out the guy made me an offer I don't refuse, and it came with the piece of a trailer that you see it on. A few shekels two weeks later and it was mine. Turns out the car was a 1941 Clipper and probably no closer to Ike than I was. Nothing fancy or special on it other than the art fair project "military" paint job.
I dragged it back to VA and then hauled it to KY a few weeks after that. The lights on the trailer didn't work, but I was driving it both trips while the sun shone and the gendarmerie left us alone. Both trips added together came to nearly 900 miles. About 18 miles, maybe a bit less, from the farm, one of the front axle tires blew. Being on the back roads, we simply slowed and watched the smoke roll and listened to the rubber flap. A few miles later, the tire on the other side of that axle blew. We made it to the farm on what was left of the trailer arrangement and parked the whole rig. The other two tires went fat overnight. We got a good laugh out of that.
It is a good pile of parts, and those skirts!!!
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I dragged it back to VA and then hauled it to KY a few weeks after that. The lights on the trailer didn't work, but I was driving it both trips while the sun shone and the gendarmerie left us alone. Both trips added together came to nearly 900 miles. About 18 miles, maybe a bit less, from the farm, one of the front axle tires blew. Being on the back roads, we simply slowed and watched the smoke roll and listened to the rubber flap. A few miles later, the tire on the other side of that axle blew. We made it to the farm on what was left of the trailer arrangement and parked the whole rig. The other two tires went fat overnight. We got a good laugh out of that.
It is a good pile of parts, and those skirts!!!
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