I am interested in this Packard try-out key set effort. My '41 Packards are put away for the winter so I decided to work on my own key & lock matching project. A friend told me about this forum thread and I got suckered in.

I had 11 door & trunk handles, 8 ignition switches, 4 glove box locks & 7 loose key cylinders all without matching keys & all related to '41 Packards. Years ago I was gifted a box of miscellaneous old keys. From this box I sorted out 71 old car keys that would slide into the Packard lock cylinders. Then one key at a time, I tried matching with each of the keyless parts. Seventeen locks & cylinders now have a key allowing me to remove the cylinders.

I currently have a quantity of 19 keys with the "Pxxxx" identification stamping. The other keys are aftermarket duplicated without stamped codes.

Now back to the start of this thread, the try-out key set. Any suggestions on how we can get this effort rolling in an honest and professional manner? I would like to participate.

Thank you for your response. This agrees with the value that I found in an old Hot Rod paperback book on Brakes. I am less that 30 thousands over original on both cars - good to go.

I am trying to determine the safe wear limits of the brake drum inside diameter for the 1941-120 12 inch brakes and for the 1941-110 11 inch brakes. I figured that this must have been discussed before so I tried using the search and advanced search functions, using "brake drums" as the key words, found nothing useful, probably my inexperience in searching. Any help would be appreciated. Tis the season for preventative maintenance.