Hi All,

A few years back I had a Packard watch that was stolen, it was in a octagonal shape, and the numbers were replaced with the letters P A C K A R D E I G H T

I have found there may be a few others like it out there. I am in the market to buy one if anyone has one for sale.


Cheers,
Mat

Hey Kevin, that sounds like a nice watch. I think I've seen one similar. Very cool.

Unfortunately I don't have a photo of it.. I did a representation a long time ago of what it looked like.

It is possible that the previous person may have bought it from them. I have never seen another one.

If anyone reading this has one for sale or knows of anyone selling one. I'd be moist interested in buying one. They are such a unique piece.

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Hi All,

About 10 years ago my house was broken into. At the time I had a very lovely Packard pocket watch. This pocket watch was in a octagon shape, with the numerals replaced with the letters "PACKARD EIGHT" The person I bought it from bought it at the Hershey swap meet in 1999, my question is has anyone ever seen another watch like this before, or were there others made? Unfortunately I never found out who stole it, or recovered the watch.

Cheers,
Mathew

Howard, you did have the right person, I did try the torqueflite conversion kit and I had nothing but trouble. My adapter from the crank shaft to the gearbox was out of alignment by 30thou, (I think it was)and it kept throwing the stator. I had rebuilt the box twice before this as I had had other issues with it.
In the end I went with the kit I mentioned above. The GM box was a much stronger box.

This is different to the kit i used. This is what I used to bolt a GM T700 up to it.

https://transmissionadapters.com/collections/packard/products/1955-1956-packard-352-400-v8-to-700r4

Hi All,

A few years back I converted a number of Packard training films from 12mm film strips and records to digital format. I have decided to upload these for anyone who may be interested. I have a number of films I will be uploading. I hope you all enjoy.

The link is:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpk3iAGhePikA2RJcCKtI2A

Cheers,
Mathew Rattray

Hey Leeedy,

How do you go about finding out the registration history of a vehicle. I personally know my Caribbean was in Denver Co, but how do you find out anything further through the DMV or other organizations?

Cheers,

I haven't taken the measurements yet, but attached is a close up of one of the knobs showing how the knob sits. You will notice there is a space between the 2 parts. This is due to the length of the screw. Note: Click on picture to see clearly as the file rotated when uploaded.

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My car was converted to negative ground prior to me purchasing the car so I am not entirely sure what is required to convert from Pos ground to Neg ground.

I haven't reinstalled the chrome bezel that goes around the radio yet but that will fit in with no problems. The dimensions of the face if the radio and location of the knobs are identical to the original radio. I did not have to make any modifications to the dash.

There is a space between the knob faders due to the extra length of the knobs. I will post a photo of this shortly. I'll also get the dimensions of the radio face and knob spacing and post those as well.

The wiring allows for 4 speakers to be connected. The original speaker won't work with this radio apparently from what the manual indicated. There is a positive and negative wire in the harness for easy connection and there is also a line out which allows the unit to be connected via an amplifier or other devices.