Florida Packard Club Fall meet in Sarasota, Florida. Permission has been given to pass along this page from The Caribbean Courier.

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Thanks for your hard work. It allows lurkers like me to be able to satisfy my daily Packard fix and helps keep my cars running.

I got my first "Is that thing running?" the other day while the '41 Sedan was idling in the driveway.

I just tried to download it and yes, I am getting .php file. I just get lines of gobbledy gook when I try to open it.

No experience with that site, but it looks like classified listings, heavy on dealers. Much akin to Hemmings.com by the looks of it.

I would think that it would be a badge of honor to be considered a Packard Groupie.

About 3-4 years ago when I shipped mine from Connecticut to Florida, I used Horseless Carriage. Other than their calling to ask if they could delay pickup for one day, everything went great. Spotless truck, professional and personable driver, and on time delivery. It didn't hurt that I found the price to be less than I had been expecting.

One of the problems with keeping the car 10 miles from the house is that unless I write everything down and take pictures of everything, by the time I drive back home, things that I am sure I would not forget have managed to get rearranged in my memory. Another problem is that I can't just hop off the recliner and rush out to the garage to try something or have another look at it. As a result, when I got up to the car today, I found that the lower bulb, contrary to what my annotated photo above shows, is the problematic one. It faces straight back (the upper bulb points straight up), and still wouldn't work. The other side still worked fine. I figured that I would try getting down on my creaking knees and see where everything went and see if there is more than one flasher. The wiring from the offending light drops down through a hole in the trunk and appears to run along the rear of the body. Branching off that is a lone wire that runs up to the underside of the trunk lid. It was disconnected from a housing on the back side of the license plate light. Upon further inspection I found the license plate light was out. After plugging that wire back into the housing, not only did my license plate light work, but also the non working signal light now works. Wiring and electricity is not my friend, so I'm not going to monkey around with it. I will just order up some spare bulbs and repair my broken lens and put everything back together. Nothing is easy or goes the way it is supposed to. Thanks for all the input and assistance.

Thanks guys. Half of my search problems stem from not knowing the correct terminology to use and what to be watching out for. I had originally thought I would just be able to saunter into NAPA with my old bulb in hand and say "I want another of these". Luckily they were closed when I took this bulb out so I saved a wasted trip. Thanks for the links, they have pointed me in the correct direction and after looking at pages and pages of bulbs, I would have to guess I won't be getting an exact match to the old bulb and will have to replace both. Here's hoping I don't drop the other lens...

Here is the tail light set up. There are two bulbs.One tail light and brake light and one signal. As best as I can tell, the lower round lens may just be a reflector. I keep the car about 10 miles from my house, so I'll have to go back up and look at the socket since the bulb I am looking to replace has two poles (not sure if that is the correct term) and everything I'm seeing would appear to have only one. The turn signal lever inside the car mounted to the steering column would appear to be after market. The signal light on the other side lights and flashes fine so I don't think it is a flasher issue. I'm trying to avoid swapping bulbs because of what my butter fingers did to the left lens.

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