With Vaughn's and Nelson's help, the Duchess has doors and a wired dashboard.

Almost everything works, though a complete electrical step-by-step needs to be conducted. I'm not sure who sells "original" spark plug wiresets, the black ones with a crackle exterior, but that was the problem.

Rick at Canyon Auto tuned the engine. She was lubed and fluids checked. Oil is synthetic now and same for gear oil.

The crew at Beaverton Auto Upholstery finished up the top, a beautiful job. The trunk is mostly done. The rear carpet was made and is ready for pick up from SMS Fabrics in Canby.

The car was towed one last time back home because I had no stop lights or mirrors.

Saturday morning I spent all day as Les Schwab Tires fussed over her, mounted the new tires and tubes and set the toe-in.

Sunday afternoon I drove to son John's in Salem and back.

Is there a thread on this topic already? I have to add (position, drill and rivet) hubcap retaining clips I bought from Kanter to a spare wheel rim and also drill a hole for the positioning stud because the wheel is not a Packard wheel.

Thanks, Vaughn. The top should be finished by Friday, the windshield finalized (parts from Steele arrived last night as did the new tires ---onTrac delivered them 2 business days from ordering them, much faster than UPS ---), and car tuned at Canyon Auto. I should be able to drive it home, maybe bring 1 front door down to the shop so I don't fall out.

The other runningboard will be out of the tank (2nd time to dip) tomorrow at American Metal Cleaning. I could prime and fill and sand Wed and Thurs night.

Jim called me last night and his buds Dave and Kevin will take some pics of perhaps identical regulators so we might possibly see the parts needed without Jim removing his door panel.

With the window thing, if we don't see what's actually in there, we could try your idea. John will fix that tooth and lock in the chrome escutcheon to the front door handle by Friday if I can get it to him today. (He finished a crane job at Fred Meyer's yesterday while I was on a client conf call, so missed him then.)

And maybe Nelson wants to apply his electrical engineering talents to the dash and new wiring harnesses.

So, to answer your question. There's plenty to do. Let's have some fun, and I still have your smoked salmon so don't forget.

The shafts, keystock, for the rear door window cranks are missing. Here are some photos of the rear window regulators.

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I bought one from Steele for my 1940, but little of it shows and I had to slit it and drill it to make it work, which it does. Get a quarter inch piece of rubber. Size up the wires and cables that go through the firewall. Drill corresponding hole, Cut a slit from the outside to each hole. Stuff the cables and wires in each respective hole and stick the cap back on.

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Who's sick and tired of this? I am.

But forging on...

I put out an APB on uneedapart.com and at PAC for a front door window regulator for an 1803 1377. I brought myself to the point of being ready to buy one just to see what the part in the cross looks like. Over the weekend Vaughn and I became unconvinced we have the solution. Bill at Kanter checked for one in their huge pile. No got. John Ulrich responded that the part would be rare and pricey. So here we sit, 2 weeks behind the original schedule with windows down and raining in Portland in the middle of July, I mean pouring, as everyone who attended the Concours at Forest Grove experienced.

And the rear door window regulators are missing their shafts, the ones that have a chrome handle on one end and somehow interface with a gear in the regulator at the other.

When I get to (hopefully) heaven, I'm not going to ask how many angels can fit on the head of a pin or who that girl finally married. I'm going to ask to see where all my missing Packard parts are now.

Thanks, Hank. Beauty is as beauty does, so we'll see. And "when finished" seems more like "if finished" since we hit a brick wall on the window regulators, and progress on upholstery taking a 2-week back seat to other other projects.
Concours in Forest Grove here this weekend.

Second running board needed a second burn in the oven and another sit in the rust tank. I ordered my Coker Firestone wide whites from Summit Racing. Replacement ring for speedometer arrived from Yesterday's Radio. Many little details that take forever.

I have 2 weeks to get it done, and if it's not done by then. EVERYONE is going to hear about it and why. I will not be a happy camper. I will be a hornet.

Thanks. Just hung up with Nelson. He was asking if you were back yet. There isn't much to do at this point until the doors(window regulator issue) is resolved.
The Duchess is at Beaverton Auto Upholstery still.

Check this thread.https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7323&forum=1&post_id=81528#forumpost81528

I am struggling with this. So if you want to play with it, that could be a help. Several Packardites have contributed ideas, mostly Guscha had specific ideas. Take a look.

That would also make a beautiful 30s poster, G. Don't toss the art work. If it said PACKARD in a size to fill the width like the 1922 Packard Ad on the Single-Six I see at the right of my screen and the word ENGINEERING stretched out underneath it end to end in small type, it would be one of those world class Olympic games posters from the 30s. Thank you for doing this.

I put everything back together last night and still having problems, so I think the only solution (if you followed the Duchess Project you might have seen that I had some things machined 2 or 3 times before they were usable) is to find out what's actually the part needed. That may mean buying and returning regulators from Kanter to find out. It would be worth the restocking and/or shipping cost.

Wow, she's incredible. Before my wife passed away, when she knew she was seriously ill, she told me, "Joe, it's going to take at least 3 women to replace me, and they all better be over 60." This gal is going on the list for sure. 101, amazing.