Man, that is nice

Looks like the on and off rain couldn't keep the bees away

I'll be the Saturday with pops

Powered out of the garage for the first time in a few years. Still working on getting it to run long enough to bleed the brakes. But, dad is having fun.



It acts like the automatic choke isn't working correctly and it seems to not get gas consistently. We were able to get it to idle long enough to idle out of the garage and use the ebrake to stop it. Regardless, it's nice to finally have a place to putz around on cars and do things with my dad. For the first time in many years I am having fun again in the hobby.

That is very cool, we didn't even have to wait years to see the finished car.

Very nice story Kev and a few others as well. Let's see, I'm 52.

It all started when I was about 6 and I started eyeing my father's 39 12 convertible sedan. For the record I am still eyeing it, that's about as close as I'll get to it I reckon.

The other day he came over to help my try to get the 55 Constellation running again so i can sell it. It sat for about 3 years.



It wasn't getting gas and it looked like it had a new fuel pump on it. I also knew I had to burn through the tiny amount of old gas before the new gas started hitting the carb. Anyway, he finally clued me in that he wasn't sure the fuel pump he put on it worked so here he is testing a rebuilt pump before we put it on.



I have always dreamed of the day we could drive one of our Packards to the Packard meets. It wasn't until a few years ago that I came to the realization that that day will probably never happen. Dad, it seems is quite content to work on Packards. It seems his idea of fun is taking something apart and sending me on a 2 hour hunt to find one of his tools like a 5/8ths inch closed end wrench. He would and still does tell me to look in the garage, or it might be in the basement. It could also be in the trunk of the 55 Clipper or the 51 300 or the van or the 56 400. I should also look in the bag under the Facel Vega.Needless to say i am damaged beyond repair. I have people work on my cars now.

He still enjoys the hunt though, he has countless parts in his garage, cars that were getting scrapped that he/we rescued valuable parts from.

Speaking of hunts, we're off to Delaware to look at a 52 Packard this morning. Gotta run

Thanks, hopefully I can find the little jimmy john I need at the swap meet

Very cool

So here's where it goes



Here's what it looks like



Here's the under side

What little widget am I missing to mount this?

Thanks

Tinpan

Thank you for the tip on pre cut glass. I found a place that apparently has this glass available. It's around $650 for the whole car which isn't too bad.

Now on to find a temperature and Oil gauge for a standard eight so I can get the reassembly completed.

I've added this to the registry and will update it as i figure out the rest of the information.

Should have this one back on the road soon. Just trying to find the missing bits so we can finish putting to togther to see what we have

Thanks

Tinpan