Two used 54 Clipper wheel covers
These have a couple minor dings as noted in one of the pictures.
$50 for the pair, free shipping to US address

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It was kind of a surprise to me. As a non-PAC member i had a forum account and would occasionally visit the site to see if there was any good threads with information I could use to keep my 47 running. I mostly frequent packardinfo but there were a few threads i had bookmarked on the PAC forum. I just wish they would have informed the general forum before the change. Its also kind of annoying that they setup their main page with tabs to the sections that they are making members only to just divert you to a page that tells you that they are members only. Why not put those tabs as a drop down under the members only tab to begin with. Its been a few years since i did any website administration with a php forums but they could have just made a members only section of the forum and kept the rest open to the public.

The justification for hiding the classifieds was to reduce scammers reaching the ad posters. However all someone has to do is guess a valid member number to get in so who knows how well that will help in the long term.

I don't recall nor can think of a good reason for why the forums should require a member number, as they already require an account to post. It's kind of like a clubhouse that allows no visitors. Great for a secret society but not for a global hobby that is gently but persistently trying to attract new members.

I will check out the site then perhaps write a letter to the editor.

1937 Super Eight 'offset pilot thimble' for camber adjustment
by Ed Boersma on 2024/1/4 13:59:35

Looking for some offset pilot shims to adjust front suspension camber. These are (best as I can recall) a small metal 'plate' about 3/4" wide by 2" long by 1/8" thick with a hole through which the upper shock absorber bolt passes. The hole is centered in the plate, or is offset to adjust the camber. I'm hoping somebody has some so that I don't have to have them fabricated. Thanks! Call Ed @ 763-586-0700 or contact through this site.

I don't know what NAPA has for a '47. They do have parts that can be used for 51-56. I have wheel cylinders, hoses, and brake lines from them on my Panama, as well as other parts. Are the wheel cylinders as good as what Packard made? Maybe, maybe not. So far not an issue for me.

But Mike (su8overdrive) has listed some fantastic resources for parts, not just for your brakes. I highly recommend checking with them as well.

-Kevin

PAC is a club with paid membership so what would be the point of people paying if everything could be had for free? To me, it makes perfectly good sense although for things like the Classified Ads, it would be prudent to at least show them without contact information so that one could see what they're missing by not being a member.

Incidentally, I have not been to the PAC site for years but looking at it now it is 1000% better than it was when I last saw it. The old one was very dated and downright ugly although admittedly I am the one who created the background image that it was using which must have been well-over 20 years ago or at least near the very beginning of the Internet.

Dating myself but the fellow who is now PAC's president is someone I've known since he was quite literally a little boy barely older than a toddler. His father was in PAC and the NorCal chapter where I was very active as a board member and officer of both.

I am having an issue with my 1937 115C front seat not locking. It slides back and forth when being driven. Can someone help with this serious problem?

Hey Jim. Thanks for the response! Totally agree, the cradle was cut at some point for the engine to come out, but it's all welded back correctly. This is an oddity in the design of the radiator support - the more common setup (that I've seen) has the radiator in front of the support (like the 2365 pic below), rather than behind it. So the gap is closer to four inches because the current splasher ends before the cradle, leaving the top pretty much wide open.

For reference, I attached the photo of mine with the wrong splasher, and a photo of what the right splasher looks like with this cradle/rad setup. You can see the extension that goes beneath the top of the cradle and extends the splasher to the radiator for a more complete seal. The lower splasher is there, but it's missing the R and L black-to-frame splashers. Who knows if it'd make much of a difference. It ran cool today (never above splitting on the gauge), but to be expected when it's 46 out, haha!

Anyways, thanks again for the response. Just wanted to test the waters here to see if anything was out there before I go to the big vendors.

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Guess that explains it but to me seems short sighted. Could see restrictions being a good thing if placed on items with personal info such as membership and rosters but IMO, you would want to encourage as much traffic as possible to forums and maybe even classifieds.

I suspect there are probably far more Packard owners who are not members of PAC or any club than there are members. Like Fish'n Jim, I too am a former member but I don't remember PAC ever being restricted before other than by a webmaster that absolutely would not accept any post with the word modification in it. Non member expertise will be lost so time will tell if it was a good decision.

Fortunately Packardinfo has many times the amount of content and forum traffic and as I recall it was started in large part because of restrictions placed on that other very popular forum which drove most of their posters away. Can't see a lot happening if the restriction is meant to boost PAC membership. If it is a way to cut down on bandwidth costs and spam, it will surely succeed.

PAC was members only in a few places when I was a member years back, so nothing new, except maybe expanded territory? Declining membership may be forcing some cuts, etc. It wasn't the $ so much as the lack of need/interest for me. I get 2 much info every day, why should I have to clean out someone else's barn?

We seem to have an aversion to "free" in the digital age. Don't give Big Kev any ideas! ha, HA, HAAAA.
Microsoft is trying to claim that 'any' content developed on 'their' software and stored on the cloud is "theirs' to use under the "license". We have laws and copyrights in this country. Google recently got fined billions for clandestine use of users content so maybe someone will sue the billions off Microsoft next. We might get a few pennies after the Lawyers take the dollars. So much for the claims of safety and security with the cloud. It's always been a "don't go there zone" for me. I could smell it coming.
The AI push is fueling this, since it needs "big data" to be effective. And guess who has that, all the MAANG* companies pushing AI.

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