We prefer the 5-window coupes at Fred's place.

Shop until you drop. Last year, I scored a 327 with a bell housing and the 3-speed (no o/d) attached for under $500. It was allegedly out of a '54 Clipper.


It can be done.

From the For What It's Worth Department:


As an owner of 3 of the 282 engines, one in a driver, I think that the best high performance part that you could install would be a 327. That would be the equivalent of boring it a quarter inch (I believe the stroke is the same). I wouldn't spend a nickel on trying to improve a 282.


But, it is yours, so do what you like and have fun doing it.

You can't drag it home if you don't go to kick its tires first.

Good for you!!! I (kind of) suspected as much.

My comment was based on the very simple fact that most people are all but completely incapable of following simple instructions, and the man (my assumption) did post simple instructions. Your judgments are 100% yours.


A couple of years ago, I contacted a man (his assumption) who, it turns out, is a noted "major Packard collector" about the '47 Custom Super he had advertised for sale. I, too, was denied the ***damned common courtesy of a reply, perhaps because he didn't know who I am, or "who my people are" or that he didn't like the cut of my jib based on my flawless grammar in my email response. You'd think that the only thing that would matter is that my Benjamins are as green as the next fellow's. Ergo, I was forced to presume that this peron is a pompous @$$.

It appears as though the seller wishes that you FB message him your phone number and he will call you. If he were selling anything I had interest in, I'd do it myself, but I won't waste the man's time otherwise.

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As HPH indicated (I think), I've had good luck with Packard people. One guy in particular, we did 75 cents down by wire after several talks and a couple of visits and cash when we went to collect the first car. He said something about trusting him, and I reminded him that I knew where he lived, and he just laughed. He's one of the nicest people I've met in the last several years, and we go up for lunch once of twice a year and his missus stays in touch with the landlady.


In other news, Fred is transitioning nicely into housecatdom.

I do like the flatbed look and function. I didn't "get it" for a long time about those until I discovered that there is no gunwale to lift stuff over, which adds an exponential measure of practicality.


Maybe one day at Wat's Anvil Refugee Camp . . . .

Wat scores his anvils (my pet term) eyeball-to-eyeball, cash in hand, and a .45 on the truckseat close at hand. There will be no fleecing of Wat.