Re: 38 V12 restoration cost

Posted by Packard53 On 2010/2/4 15:42:57

I never agree with Peter very often but in this case I do.

I think that the factory would have done what the customer wanted with in reason to make a sale of the Senior Packard's during the 30's, the same could be said for the Packard dealers trying to make the sale.

The problem I find with this hobby today there are a lot of people out there claiming to be so called experts and blow their horn very loudly. However when the rubber hits the road they turn out not to know too much.

Several years I ago I was invited to CCCA meet in Florida. Before the meeting my host said that 90% of the people at the event wouldn't know what they were talking about when
it came to classics. How true my host was.

A fellow I know restored a Senior Packard in the early to mid 90's and he told me he stopped keeping track of what he spent on the restoration when figures reached $ 250,000. So I guess that when some person puts out a figure of $ 750,000 that doesn't shock me


John F. Shireman