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White smoke is oil, not gas. You may be dealing with multiple problems here - too much gas results in blackish/gray smoke, not white. Are you sure you're not confusing the smell of burning oil with the smell of gasoline? If you've got too much gas and are running that rich, you should usually have a bit of gasoline dripping out of the tailpipe or at least be able to feel gasoline in the tailpipe.
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They are and this is already the policy in Paris and Berlin. It soon will be in most major U.S. cities. If the car is older than 25 years, you must have a special permit from the city (read that tax) to drive it within city limits. They also limit the number of miles it can be driven in a year as I understand it but I have no idea how they'd verify that. But, in Paris and Berlin, the police will already stop you if you're in an older car and see if you have your papers in order and have paid your pollution fee to drive that old clunker.
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Thanks, heading over to have a look!
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Steve has it right, but it's not just collector cars, it's antiques across the board. The "under 30" crowd, by and large, cares little or nothing for anything old, regardless of what it is.
Prewar car prices, for cars that are actually selling, are very similar to what they were back in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Antique furniture has completely tanked, art glass lamps (Tiffany and such) have imploded, and I collect prewar electric trains as well, and once again, the prices today are about what they were in 1975. And, it's not going to come back. There will always be those who appreciate large classics and antiques, but the vast majority of the Gen X and Gen Z folks have no interest in the stuff and never will. Buy it, drive it, enjoy it. As Steve said, buying opportunities are only going to get better with each passing year.
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That sounds more logical. I've never heard of any car being titled by the engine ID number, that's just asking for trouble. Even when they were newer, what were you supposed to do if you had to replace the engine? And what good did it do you to have a VIN tag attached to the car if they were going to title it with an easily removable part? That just doesn't make any sense.
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You're a lucky guy! Having a trail like that on a car of that vintage is scarce. Problem I have, we're having a new title made because the elderly owner passed, he had bought and restored the car originally around 1971 in Pennsylvania, moved to Florida.
Some of the car's paperwork still exists, but the title was long lost so working with the relatives and a title company to get the new one - taking entirely too long. Car was sold through a dealer in Ohio. Reason I'm curious about the owner, in the paperwork there's 1930/1931 parking passes for the car at the White House and the key fob is a bronze badge-looking thing that had something to do with the car's White House parking. According to the family, the old guy had said it was a White House motorcade car, but I'm more inclined it to think it just belonged to a politician who visited there occasionally - car seems to have spent most of its life in Pennsylvania.
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1932 seems to have been the year Packard embraced whitewalls, although in photos they're still not wildly popular. I've still not found a single 1927-1931 factory Packard advertisement or promo photo that shows any of their cars wearing whitewall tires. GM. Auburn, and Cord, seem to have started the trend on their larger cars, but it really seems they didn't start to catch on until 1932/1933, and even then, in very limited numbers. Attach file:  packard-1929.jpg (49.81 KB)
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Admittedly, I am still learning, but studying the color chips, the prestige brochures available that year, and the magazine advertisements, a LOT of 1929 and 1930 Packards today are painted in colors the factory never dreamed of - and far too many are wearing whitewall tires when you look at contemporary photos and advertising.
As was said, I've been told that the factory would paint your car any color for an added fee, but black fenders seemed to be the norm on just about everything back in 1929, everything else aside. The body VIN plate is most assuredly a reproduction, which raises questions about everything, so without provenance, I don't know how you would prove the original colors. The 640 I'm still waiting to arrive (title issues with the estate of the previous owner) is painted light yellow with black fenders, roof, and trim, and it looks like an overgrown taxi cab. I will very likely be changing the body color to something more standard, despite the family claiming this 1970's repaint to be the original color. I am VERY curious, given how unusual the colors are in factory advertising and the factory brochures, how many cars were painted non-standard colors, as they were definitely advertising cars in colors not shown on the paint chip samples we have available today. Beautiful car, regardless of all else!
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Thanks, did that too, and yes, same conclusion. Apparently whitewalls on larger cars across the board were not a thing in the late 1920's and early 1930's - looks like it was on smaller cars starting in the mid-1930's, but not the big boys.
Just strikes me as very curious why they're seemingly standard issue now when they weren't back when the cars were new. Thanks.
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While I'm waiting for the paperwork to get straight so I can buy my much anticipated 640, I'm pondering tires.
Original Packard magazine ads virtually NEVER show whitewall tires on their cars of this vintage, and looking at archival videos on Youtube, it seems that whitewall tires on anything, from the mid-1920s to the late-1930s, was pretty darned rare. Looking at the videos, no matter how stately the car, from Rolls Royces to Auburns and Duesenbergs, VERY few were on the streets back then with whitewall tires. I know it's a matter of personal preference, but, if they really weren't popular when these cars were new, when did they suddenly become popular? It's definitely got me rethinking things and putting repro blackwalls on the car now. Thanks!
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