I just replaced the top on our '55. It cost $3,500 plus material (~$500). He glued a very thin cloth material on the underside to it to be the correct color.

Looking for leather in the correct color to do the complete interior carpet included. I have a quote of $20K plus material. Its looking like we will need to dye the leather.

Riki - Thanks that's where I had been tapping before posting, but it was stubborn. I posted out of caution, With your help and a little WD40 it's out.

By gear/shaft I'm referring to the part on the left side of the housing and assume by worm gear you mean the gear on the right side of the housing. Not sure what you mean by tap it out. I have tried to remove the gear/shaft by pulling it towards the left to no avail.

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The left side motor seemed to be sluggish when compared to the right side. I've have the motor plus linkage out of the car. I need to remove the gear in the motor's housing, but it doesn't want to budge. I'm assuming that the sprocket gear/shaft is pushed into the gear inside the the worm gear. What's the secret?

The glass is 13 1/2". The motor is sluggish going up and is slower than the passenger side.

So I'll replace the motor to see if that solves the issue. There is some sloppiness in the scissor mechanism that, which may be the cause.

When I had the car painted, they glued the felt strip that is at the top of the door on. Is it suppose to be screwed on with short sheet metal screws?

Right and left wind wings are the same height.

I had already used the 9/16 inch nut trying to get the window as high as possible. In addition, I removed the 2 stops that prevent to widow from going to high.

With the metal channel on the bottom of the glass hitting the felt track at the top of the door the window is 3/8 to 1/2 inch short. I'm guessing that the glass has been replaced and is to short. While the passenger side window is OK, I don't want to use it, as the A pillar was replace after the initial (previous owners) when it was found to be an inch to short (this was done during then initial restoration around 2003).

It appears that the door window on my car are shorter than they should. Even when the top window stop is removed it can not be raised high enough to reach up to the height it should be. The width appears to be correct. Does someone out there know what the height of the window is suppose to be.

Also, are there instructions for removing the door window when they are electrically operated?

I need to remove the louvers on the lower hood panel on the car. I've been unable to find a source fof a direct fit on the rivets that hold them on. Does anyone out there know of a supplier for them?

I've looked and can find the bulb number for the courtesy lights on the outside behind the doors. What is the bulb number for the one with the dual filaments?

To All Who Assisted.

I finished the restoration of the 901 earlier in the year. I've entered it into two shows: Packards International (PI) Annual Meeting and San Marino Motor Classic (SMMC).

At PI's show in the Pre-War Closed class it was awarded "Best Sport Motif" out scoring the car that finished first place in that class. At SMMC it was awarded First Place in the Packard Pre-War Closed class.

So to ALL YOU that provided help on this project I send you a

BIG THANK YOU!