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Re: Snoozing for 30 Years
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The Cadillac on the carrier is a 1965 Fleetwood Sixty Special so is not a true hardtop, having pillars as that model does. It also has eight power windows including the four wings.

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But light? I think it weighed in at about 4000 lbs. No gadgets on this one. Manual everything and an a.m. radio. The 445 ft. lbs. of torque that the 401 ci "Wildcat" engine put out certainly made it feel light! I remember the first time I drove it vividly. Off the line, with just a tap on the accelerator, it felt like nothing else I'd ever driven. Sorry to say, our '55 Packards could not compare. I was a little hurt about that realization. I thought Packard V8s ruled the world.


Yes, but I meant light weight construction. Once I picked up my 1964 Ghia-Imperial by its rear bumper using an engine lift to get it up as far as possible, then later tried the same thing on the Cadillac. The Cadillac's bumper went up but the car stayed firmly on the ground! The Imperials and Packard were built well and probably the Cadillacs of the era were too but by the sixties the Cadillac went for gadgetry while the Imperial remained sturdy with excellent but basic accessories, such as a fantastic A/C (even dual as an option) but no plumbing nightmare of a climate control.

Anyway, perhaps I should ask BigKev to move this thread to the project blog area where I can expand on the Patrician work when the time comes! Just a thought and I was about to post some old photos to get it started but I have apparently not yet scanned the negatives so all I could find was this old Polaroid SX70 shot (I have many Polaroids back to the early '50s) that I had taken on a diagonal of my old outdoor storage yard in the north edge of downtown San Jose. By the number and positioning of the cars, it was taken early on in the many years I had it available. Just so you don't have to tilt your heads to see it, I rotated and cropped the image to the odd shape and size you see here.

I must have driven the 1954 Patrician that day because it is in the center where I would usually park whatever I was driving and it had never been stored there. On the left is a 1951 Henney-Packard combination and a 1940 110 Club Sedan. The latter was purchased before it was even quite an antique and came from the Packard Seattle Company, and I bought it in Seattle, then later drove it to San Jose before starting to re-restore it some years later. I owned the 1940 since the mid-'60s but the '51 Henney was purchased sometime in the '70s and was my first postwar Packard, followed a year or two later by the Patrician.

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1964 Imperial LeBaron (sold); 1951 Henney-Packard Combination (sold); 1940 Packard 110 Club Sedan (sold); 1964 Ghia-Imperial limousine (sold); 1954 Packard Patrician (still have); 1964 Imperial Crown Coupe (sold); 1965 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham (parted out); 1965 Imperial LeBaron (still have).

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Posted on: 2016/2/11 18:14
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Re: Tires
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Yes it will and it will also ruin them. Never use anything abrasive or with bleach if you value the tires. These things break down the surface of the rubber and make them deteriorate quickly and stain easily.

Posted on: 2016/2/10 21:45
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Re: Tires
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Blechewhite will ruin a whitewall so never use anything stronger than a soft brush and detergent!

Posted on: 2016/2/10 17:12
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Re: Tires
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I think the 2 1/2" would be more appropriate but really it's just a matter of taste. I've seen Packard literature with various sizes so I doubt one is more authentic than the other.

Posted on: 2016/2/10 16:34
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Re: A/C on ebay
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Thank you and that's what I thought. Seems awkward but probably better than running cables to the dash!

Posted on: 2016/2/7 22:52
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Re: A/C on ebay
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What are the knobs on the parcel shelf for?

Posted on: 2016/2/7 21:17
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Re: Parts Book Questions: Mayfair 300 and Henney
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I corrected it to 5401-11-31 (BODIES 5467-77-97) which makes more sense and is in keeping with other similar entries. I'm sure there was a reason it was done the way it was but I can't figure out what that reason might have been! The A/C section has many similarly odd entries so it is becoming obvious that it was added hastily as an afterthought.

Posted on: 2016/2/6 21:42
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Re: Battery Cable Question
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Was 0 OEM? I saw what were advertised as "reproductions" of the '51-'56 cables on one of the wiring sites that were listed as 1 which seemed a bit small, especially for the 6v cars. What size did these cars originally have?

Posted on: 2016/2/6 21:16
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Re: Parts Book Questions: Mayfair 300 and Henney
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Yes, I know but it doesn't follow the pattern of any other entries that would have the chassis number, then (BODIES 5467-77-97) after it, as in 2601 (BODIES 2692-95), for example. Inconsistencies and irregularities in the format make programming quite difficult so I'll have to rewrite the entries to match the rest but it won't change the meaning if I do it properly!

I like hardcopy too and often work from printouts but when I want to find all applications of a specific part, it can take so much time that I never bother to do it and, as I have tons of parts, it would be nice to be able to list them properly. Also, I love databases in general, especially when I want to post the information on my site and this makes it all searchable too.

Posted on: 2016/2/6 20:15
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Re: Parts Book Questions: Mayfair 300 and Henney
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I would love to but with only SSI for income, it's out of my price range.

Also, on my original question, I wasn't imagining it. I just found some parts book entries that list the body numbers in the model number column and it is throwing off my programming until I figure out how to handle it. There are others too but here is an example.

29.370 GRILLE-EVAPORATOR CASE AIR INLET 457625 5467-77-97
29.380 BEZEL-EVAPORATOR CASE AIR INLET GRILLE 457630 5467-77-97
29.410 GRILLE-EVAPORATOR CASE AIR OUTLET 461272 5467-77-97

I THOUGHT I remembered seeing entries like this!

Posted on: 2016/2/6 19:29
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