Re: So you drove your Packard home

Posted by David Baird On 2010/8/20 22:08:59

OK. Here's my, Lengthy, Packard story. Back in 1978 I purchased a 1948 Packard sedan. It ran but I didn't try driving it home. I needed a few parts. So, I drove to a collectors/restorers shop to get them. When I arrived I found the parts were in a storage building a few blocks from his shop. He Let's just take this car and go get them. The car was a 1949 Super Eight Convertible. I almost forgot what I was there to pick up. I loved the car.

Now, Fast forward to July 4, 1980. I attended, as a spectator, a fourth of July parade in a small town some 60 miles from where I lived. Guess what that 1949 convertible was in the parade. I followed the car to where the owner was putting the car back into storage. We talked cars for awhile as I looked the car over. The owner said it was a good car the only thing wrong with it was that every time he went to drive it he had to put in a new battery. I told him I knew how he could fix that. He said "how". I told him he could sell the car to me and then it would be my problem.

After some negotiating we agreed on a price. I drove the car to my wife's cousin's house about 10 miles away. He and I checked the car over again and found nothing of any real concern. So, the next morning I drove the car home, about another 50 miles. No problems. I continued to drive the car as I purchased it for some 8,000 miles before it needed a valve job. I still own the car.