The '42 120 Convertible in Calif (aka "The Turk") was originally the car I was looking at before the Jackard came to me. It came out of the same estate where I pulled the Steele Rubber Horde several years ago.

Gerry at Packards Southwest owns it now and everything else that was part of that estate.

The car has a fully rebuilt and restored drive train and chassis. When I was there the body was on a dolly, restored frame and drive train were being stored in another garage. Gerry re-mated the body back to the frame so it could be moved.

Nearly everything for this car was in the garage, including fresh chrome, and perhaps redone upholstery.

If the car wasn't 2000 miles away, and not disassembled it would be in my garage now.

For those interested, these is also a '53 Mayfair that was freshly repainted, has new interior, fresh chrome, NOS glass, restored frame and fully rebuilt drivetrain (engine and transmission). But once again, fully apart. It's a rare car in Amethyst paint, with matching amethyst badging.

I'm sure we could find you a car to buy. You'd just have to let us know what you want, condition and budget. The cars are out there.

I'm sure there are part/junk cars out there begging to give up their unused seats. Obviously, would need to do be reupholstered.

But you would have two seat tracks that bolt to the floor, and the a rectangular frame that bolts to the tracks, then the bottom cushion sits on the frame.

Somewhere in my 37 project blog is a picture of a 40 seat frame and tracks thay should be close to the same as yours.

Seat back shells primed in epoxy.

It took two days to strip them and 2 rounds of acid to convert all the rust in the pits.

On my '54, the clips were rust welded to the doors, so the pull tangs broke off pretty much instantly.

But if you roll the window down all the way and remove the garnish molding, you can see the clip, apply copious penetrator, and tap/push the clip out from the inside with a long flat-bladed screwdriver and a mallet.

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You can always tell her you are trading up! ....or you are going to do the car for her to drive!

The alignment information can be found in the Service Counselor/Letters section under specifications.

Here is one that lists the compiled information from the mid-1930s through 1942, which I retrieved using the Service Index on the left-hand menu.

Here are the areas I am taking about:







It's possible a 36 120 Convertible Couple would have the same or similar upholstery.

I'm looking for reference pictures of the how upholstery panel look and are constructed in the area above the package tray and below the body flange where the convertible top attaches.

Also what upholstery is attached to top/inside area of the b-piller where the cast section of top pivot is.

I have two upholstery tacts there on each side.

Not sure is there was a panel there, or if it just secured the top of windlace.

Today was stripping the seat back shells. These are later seats out of 40 business coupe according to notes in Mark's journal. So the seat back cushions sit into a metal shell that makes up the support for the seat back and pivot assembly.

I've noticed the seat base looks like it's been cut and welded back together. Which makes sense because a 37 is narrower than a 40 body. So he had to section the base to make it fit width wise. But then what did not make sense was the cushions and seat backs, how do they still fit?

Well once I removed the cushion, and stripped off the remains of the old upholstery on the seat shell it became clear. All the upholstery that was on the seats was pretty ratty (literally), and seamed to have odd repairs and never really fit well. Well that was because both the seat bench bottom and the split seat backs have been sectioned.

You can see the newer, ungrounded welds where it was put back together. The inside edge of the shells has a thick curved arm that connects to the central pivot in seat frame. This was cut off, several inches lopped off from that inner structure along that middle edge of the shell. Then the arm welded back on. The sheet metal on the back then was hammered down around that reforming the edge that was cut away. There is a big difference in the factory edge and finish, and the reformed edge.

I am sure if I fully stripped all the cushion down, I would find the same sectioning on them as well.




They were pretty nasty from rodents when the car was stored in the barn. As the farbic was soiled as was were all the wood and fiber tack strips. I spent a lot of time trying to clean them up, but between the rust in hard to reach places and upholstery glue remains, I think this is a job for my local sandblaster. Then I can prime them in epoxy once I get the back