Amen. Your pappy gave y'all good advice. Got the same from my parents. Didn't hurt us in the least. We built bizarre wooden gocarts, raced them downhill with no adult supervision, never got hurt, and you never saw obese kids when we were growing up.

Regarding OwenDynamo's observation that you have to check the VIN #, that's right, would tell you whether '46 or '47. A glance at the interior would determine whether Super or Custom Super, since Packard ads and the owner's manual considered them the same car. Some of the 21st Series ads are downright ambiguous regarding Super or Custom Super. Some ad copy reads Super but pictures a Custom Super with its standard fender skirts (optional on Super) and absence of model script on the body.
I've owned my '47 2103 since ten years after this commercial appeared.

Which is why i asked if anyone met Palance, saw his car, perhaps talked Packard with him. He had some nice cars, drove them, but avoided the concours silliness. Like Artie Shaw, Tony Bennett and others, Palance painted later on, knew John Lennon, Yoko Ono, briefly appeared in one of their movies, circa 1969-70. If he ever rebuilt his transmission or differential, or reinstalled them himself, we know how he kept in shape to do those one-arm push ups at the Oscars.

Okay, sportsfans, thanks to a gentleman on the CCCA Forum, i have this 30-second Prestone antifreeze tv commercial from late 1976. I asked if anyone on this Packard site could find it, but it took a Jordan owner in the CCCA to come through. Have at it:

http://www.vixbase.com/v/218135

So, 1946 or '47 Super or Custom Super? No conjecture, please.

Anyone meet Palance, see the car, talk Packards with him?

Anyone know what became of Jack Palance's black 1946-47 Packard Super Clipper? Ever meet him, talk cars? He owned that, a '41 Lincoln Continental club coupe and/or '42 Continental convertible, a '37 LaSalle sedan, many others. Palance liked good-looking old cars you could drive in the real world. You may recall the Prestone antifreeze tv commercials Palance did with the above Packard 1976-77. This really was Palance's car.
Wonder which he kept in CA or his soybean farm in Pennsylvania.
Anyone ever see his car(s), know what became of it/them? We know about his 2007 auction just before his death. Please, tell us something we can't find via Google.

We can't even find his Prestone TV commercial featuring his Packard on YouTube. Any ideas?

We know about the Sudden Fear Packards, but we're not interested in his movie, just his real life cars, specifically the 21st Series senior Clipper sedan he used in his '76 Prestone tv commercial.

This is a wonderful site. In the interest of keeping it so, free of malarkey and hype, please note that the first car pictured, by a "clarihero" in Miami, under the 1940 Packard Owner Registry is a standard, strictly factory Super-8 sedan, not a "720 One-Eighty Super Eight Custom Darrin Sport Sedan."

Also, under the 1942 Packard Photo Archive, the "WWII MacArthur staff car" is bogus, as was thoroughly detailed as soon as that article came out in Special Interest Autos nearly 36 years ago, in May, 1976.