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Monday 22nd February 2010

Not exactly workshop activity today but, as a result of my endeavours, some of the Packard parts involved could make their way to the workshop at some future date. I know, seems a very tenuous linkage, but it's the best I can do to include it here. What happened was on Saturday Noel phoned me and asked if I could assist him today in sorting and cataloging the boxes of PACA's "Club Stock" of the spare Packard parts he's holding for the club in his warehouse. These had been sorted and mostly identified when they were rounded-up prior to the swap meet, at PACA's National Rally last year, to The Flackmaster for his massive input at that time. However the day of the swap meet, it rained at the end of the day and many of the parts were bundled up in a hurry to beat the inclement weather. Noel has undertaken to get all the parts organised and identified, a big task, so they can be passed on to Peter Toet(PeterPackard) for long term storage. So today we made a start and as part of the process I'm photographing each part, where practical, or groupings of parts so identification and cataloging can be done with some certainty. Saying that, neither Noel or I are experts in parts identification and I may be asking for help from time to time to gain identification or clarification where required. So on a late summer Sydney day, temperature approaching 100F, we moved loose larger parts like grills and fenders as well as two pallet loads of boxes to outside the warehouse and started. Unloaded one pallet of boxes completely and started sorting. While doing this we were on the outlook for some particular parts, identified by David last year, and now required by PACA members and thankfully these we found. Noel suggested we start by identifying the heavier mechanical components and store them in boxes on the bottom of the pallet. I know, these will probably turn out to be the ones wanted first by PACA members! But if that happens, so be it! Didn't find any rare parts, or anything I required, BUGGER! But hopefully they'll turn out to be useful for PACA members at some stage when they are advertised in the clubs magazine "The Packardian" in the near future. And next week I go back again to finish off these two pallets with Noel and hopefully we'll look at the other two pallets still up in the racks. And the Packard world is never far away from where you are, in this age of instant communication. Noel fielded a call from The Flackmaster, while Harvey called me about yesterdays swap meet at Richmond, no Packard parts there at all, or Willys part for that matter! Harvey wasn't impressed.

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He's the one with the white shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers.

front door hinge reinforcing plates, upper. 38-41.
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Kev - Correct!

David - Thanks, I'm sure there will be many more to come.

Spotting the Flackmaster in his natural habitat is very difficult. The Flackmaster normally moves at speeds faster than the eye can see; only a buzzing from pile of parts to pile of parts can be heard. I am very surprised to see a digital still image can freeze the Flackmaster in his natural surrounding. Perhaps this is worthy of submission to the National Geographic Magazine.

I would imagine a captive Flackmaster could be very useful in the identification of sundry Packard bits and the like.

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I have seen that first hand. He is like a Packard Parts Ninja. There one second, then gone. Then next thing you know he's right next to you. Very stealthy!

Actually, those photos were due to my being captive and tethered to the PACA Swap Meet Tent. "An Objective Non-Interested Party" was needed to set prices for the club parts. Notwithstanding the fact that I was attacked by a brake drum being dropped from about 8 feet above my left big toe (a 41-47 Clipper 6 cylinder rear, if it matters), I was there for about 6 hours straight, thankfully kept barely alive by liquid refreshment brought by PeterPackard....and now back to the regularly scheduled string...

G'day all, Here is a snap of the Flackmaster (on the left) and Peter Packard ( on the right), in their natural environment, at the PACA Mittagong Rally in 2009. Looking for some part or other!

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David's like the neighbor from the 90s TV show Home Improvement. You never see his face! This make identification so much harder!

Yes Kevin, Wilson I believe. Oddly, when accidentally discovering the true identity of Bat-Flackmaster, I had to sign a non-disclosure contract. I have to hand it to our Australian brethren in Packard collecting, luring the Flackmaster under that car and then snaring him was very clever. I bet that's how Crocodile Dundee would do it!