This Packard has been my project for about 5 years, have to sell it due to an unexpected financial problem.
The car is rust free (garaged all its life) and was painted a few years ago. It has all original interior, and components other than the engine.
I recently installed a 71 Dodge 360, with a newly rebuilt variant of the 727 automatic. The original engine was a 320V8 that had a bad oil pump and the original Ultramatic leaked excessively. The engine runs strong, but needs a carburetor rebuild, and valve cover gaskets.
Headliner is also original but needs replacing as well.
Body work was done professionally by a well known body shop in my area, and I painted it about two years ago. Original color was only light blue. Everything is included with this car that is not shown in the pictures, like the long chrome pieces and plastic interior pieces are included and in mint shape. Not sure what to ask for it, thought I would offer it to the Packard community before I put it on eBay. Please call and give an honest price, my phone number is 605-270-4082. I take calls in the hours of 5pm till 11pm, texts anytime. The Car is located in Madison SD.

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On my older cars I use type A, I buy it from a local tractor and auto parts store. New type A is just a basic transmission fluid like type F but with no additives or detergents. It says on the back ' for use on older automatic transmissions'. Seems a bit different than what you're looking at though.

It was a 1974 ford with a 360, it wasn't HEI but an older ignition booster, it made a big improvement with starting in the winter. It was mainly a test for a friend to see if the booster actually worked, cant name the boster off the top of my head but it seemed older. I later gave the truck back to my grandpa to sell......

The reason I was looking into HEI ignition was to improve winter starting, it had great results on my last car. Thanks for all the info, and I will join the registry soon.

How much does this improve Economy and reliability, I hear at high speeds the early HEIs were subject to failure?