Was Bill Hirsch the company that has the matting material?

The current oil issue is just a repeat of the mid-70's. There are definately more lingering proplems than $4, $10 or even $30 per gallon gas. Problems such as the US having lost it's industrial prowess, without which and even with Russian intervention the US and Russia would have lost WWII.

GM and F know what they are doing. They are a US Holding or parent of global auto mfg'ing now. NOT a domestic mfg'er. Gm at $10 and F at $4 has got to be a dirt cheap bargain of the century. If Gm and F go out of bussiness then we will have bigger problems than trying to find a job or a car to drive.

Gm and F have not produced any significant depression era cars recently. About the time they start will signal a 'recovery'. This happened in 1960 with the introduction of Chevy II, Corvair, valiant, falcon, Lancer. They were depression era cars for a depression that never came.

I use the same tool as is used for Chevrolet door and window handles ca 1955 thru 1989.

There is a generic tool KD-431 that I bought at an auto parts store a few years ago. It may still be available. Before I found the tool, built one by cutting a notch in a piece of 16ga sheet metal. The size is 1/2 wide by 5/8 deep. I just used a scrap of sheet metal about 2 inches wide by 5 or 6 long. It does need to be stiff & smooth.

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Eric,

Thanks for the self-photo.

Is that a fuel additive you are mixing up there in your Pack Lab?

DanL

Hello all

Any idea where I could found the special tool J-5981 ?
Used for taking the inside handles off

Regards

This crisis is NO surprise.

We in the USA are just catching up with the global market competing for oil. Most of Europe and much of the rest of world has been living with $5 to $10 per gal/litre gasoline for 20 years and more. That info is available to anyone - presidents, citizens, auto manufacturers ... etc.

We will drive less. Make less daily trips to the store and more shopping lists for the times we do. Buy less luxuries and probably go into a recession.

But with wind generators, hybrid autos, solar panels on houses maybe we get new growth industries and economic recovery.

Yesterday is over. Packards will still be interesting as machines and art. (I don't plan to get nostalgic about my Chevy Silverado, except as a good Packard puller).

If GM and a 1000 other companies can't think differently, they too could disappear. Their monoploy of subsidiaries and suppliers may have outlived Packard, Nash, Hudson, Studebaker, BUT no one or no corporation is immune to basic 'stupidity.'

I am not trying to be cynical, but these are not bumps in the road. They are the end of a road marked "dead end" 15 years ago.

DanL

The trunk lining has been done correctly by any number of people. The finished flocking was shown to me at the DesMoines meet last week and several people did a very good job. One of the large Packard upholstery suppliers in New Jersey has the matting material for the floor of the car that will match the flocking on the sides of the trunk. A little looking around will find a supplier of the flocking, I did not ask where they got the materials.

ok so we are dicussing fuel issue... why do I see bubbles in my glass bowl filter while the car is running?

Tom,

From the PI Engine Judging Guide on Distributors:

29-34 NE Wrinkle Black, base engine color, clamp platted
1932-39 Twelves are gloss black
All others semi-gloss black
Grease Cups -nickle plated
Oilers - plated

Hope this answers your questions.