To get the Factory on the line, you have to use a really old phone. These new modern phones just wont do the job!

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Hello,

Citizens Motorcar Company, America's Packard Museum in Dayton, OH, would like to announce that we are going to start a sympathetic restoration on the 1955 Bill Allison Torsion Bar Suspension test vehicle. The car was donated to the museum several years ago by Bill's family, though due to it being a Detroit car nothing could be done with it without substantial work so it remained in storage. Now time to solicit some donations and get car on display. I had it dropped off last week and we have in the first storage bay in the basement and have begun to collect parts. What is great is that I have a fair amount of documentation from day 1 of this car and also the private papers of Bill Allison (the designer of the torsion bar suspension). P.S. have any of you seen pictures of car before when new - hint = originally it was painted ( ED ) and has a trim code ( 62 ) - all powder blue lower with darker blue top (now improperly has blue lower accent so as to deal w/Detroit rust and blue around windows).

JMM

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Joel, when you can send it over to me, I will get it up on the website ASAP.

I did however discover that I'm weeping a wee bit of oil from the full flow filter's return line connection. The line returns from the filter (see picture) carrying oil to the block near where the oil pressure switch is typically positioned. As seen, the orientation was very 'touch & go' back there. I've lost track of how many times that assembly had to be repositioned. (And then ultimately getting the distributor in there proved challenging too).

Anyway.......move forward progress again.

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Just a quick note, I also had Five Points rebuild my front shocks and they are great to work with i talked to Matt several times and was very professsional at all times. I didn't get the same feeling when i talked with the other vendor. In my opinion we all made a great choice.

Fred D

Any relation to Andy?

Jim Hill in oklahoma has just finished a home garage safety booklet and is sending a copy to me. He wants everyone to use it and he purposely does not have it copyrighted so it can be used by all. When I recieve the copy I'll see if Kev has any iterest in adding it to the site. It is not Packard specific but it might just save someone who works on their own cars at home from injury or diaster.

I heard that Packard is having a hard time getting the supplier of the linkage as they have moved to India or some other off shore location. To get washers made in the USA is proving rather difficult. The problem that most are having calling the dealers or factory are the old phone numbers do not have a area code and usually limited to fewer numbers than currently used.
I have forwarded the clip to some friends all who think it is very funny and entertaining

With his apparent lack of brain cells if the truck fell or caught fire there would be no loss to the gene pool of the human race. If he worked at a place with a safety department he would be fired at the least.

yeah so no ATF in the Ultramaitc, just plain old gear oil did the trick.


been rollin smooth around Holywoood.


i went to Pomona to find some '51 Cali plates... and the cheapest I found them was $450 .

seemed a bit steep to me.

Then a few gearheads suggested getin new plates AND PAINTING THEM the color scheme of the '51 plate , which is gold yellow with black alphanumerics..

so i think i'll be going vanity plate, and painting them. whats the big deal. i'll ask my buddy on the LAPD if a plate mutilation ticket is worth worrying about.

maybe orig plates might end up bein the cheaper option


$450???!?!?!?!!!