Bolted into place. See group number 30.874024. The outer teeth are different - the inner 6 teeth are the same.

It is a SIX, not a 120. Check the scalloped side hood louvers, used only on the 1939 Sixes.

Mr. James Ward Packard donated $1,000,000. to Lehigh Uni. for an engineering laboratory around 1927. He died in 1928. It was the Packard Motor Car Company that donated the 1899 Packard to Lehigh in 1930. As first proposed, PMCC would "lend" the 1899 to Lehigh, but the school wanted complete ownership. So, PMCC agreed, with the provision that the company could borrow it when it wanted to - which it did in 1946 and 1949.

One was on display at the 1999 show in Warren, Ohio at the Magnum Opus. Another one was featured in the Packard Cormorant magazine several years ago.

I saw him - and his 1938 - at the PI meet last February. Both looked pretty good.

The Clipper Super will have the names "Clipper" and "Super" on the front door & fender. The Clipper Custom Super does not have any name on the door or fender.

That's Earle with an "e" at the end, thank you very much...

The May 17, 1952 issue of "Business Week" devoted a full-page to Nance joining Packard. The headline read: "Nance's Idea: Merge Packard." The newsweekly reported that: "Nance intends to make Packard the nucleus of a big new auto company - big enough to join the Big Three, General Motors, Chrysler and Ford - in a new Big Four. Nance's idea is to merge Packard with one or more of the other independent auto producers, most likely Nash-Kelvinator. It was on the understanding that he could tackle something like this that Nance took the Packard job."

"Putting Packard together would be one way to cure some of the problems," Business Week concluded, "as well as add to the number of dealer outlets and widen the line. Such a union might sound attractive, too, to an outfit like Nash. If not, there are other possibilities. The Detroit Athletic Club bar has cooked up many a merger that never came off. But no one should be surprised to learn any day that Hudson, Studebaker, Nash, Packard or Willys really was involved in a merger made up of some combination of those named."

So -- while Langworth did not know about the four-way plan until his interview with Nance in the 1970s, it WAS being discussed around Detroit in the early 1950s.

An interesting article, but that last part about the Neon sign is malarkey. Read Leon Dixon's article in the Cormorant #153 (4th Quarter 2013) for the details.

I'm sure that the files with the dealer invoices were tossed many years ago, but most of the scrapbooks (with newspaper clippings) were saved. They are now in the possession of Packards International in Santa Ana, Calif. Perhaps your car was featured an in article being delivered...?