Packard Forum Index » Packard Vehicles - For Sale, Wanted, Trade

This was just posted to Facebook Marketplace last night. Car is located in New Jersey. This is what happens when someone buys more cars than they can handle and does not have enough storage space. This poor car, which appears to have been an outstanding original, was left outdoors for an extended period of time (looks like several years) under a plastic tarp. Now, it is badly deteriorated. Any longer and it will be unsalvageable. Makes me want to cry. I really love these prewar Junior convertibles.

facebook.com/marketplace/item/2266943904 ... _code=null&referral_story_type=post

Many years ago, I went to look at a 1938 120 Convertible Coupe (my ultimate dream Packard) that was left outdoors for years under similar circumstances. The collector had cars strewn all over his yard. The Packard was behind the garage sunk into the ground up to its axles. This was a triple black, original paint and interior car that was now half rusted into the earth. It was ruined. I happened to look in the garage and there sitting nice and dry was the owner's 1980's Olds Cutlass Calais. Go figure. The guy was now selling his cars because of declining health, and I was actually talking to his son. Dad was now in a nursing home. I tried to tell the son that his dad had ruined the cars by leaving them outside for so many years, but he didn't want to hear it. He was stuck on the values listed in a popular price guide and kept insisting that the cars only really needed minor work and were worth far more than they really were in their current state.

Comes with free Racoons!

That's a very optimistic price in my opinion.

The 110 looks like a buy.

As for the ruined cars at restored prices, there are junkies, collectors, and hoarders. Junkies will usually sell, sooner or later. Collectors know what they got. Hoarders may shoot you for asking.

Ad says: Pending

Just checked FB. Car is still available. Asking price has been dropped to $14,400.

Someone reported on FB that the floor is gone in it. Which isn't surprising for a convertible left outside.

The floor isn't missing, that's the Flintstone model.

Solid $4,000 car. Because you will need another 10,400 to get it back on the road again.

Now we know where all the resto mods are coming from...

But I still need to learn who is actually buying them!

P.S. Whoever buys an old convertible without indoor storage for it deserves the depreciation that they get. What did they think would happen?