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Steve
I appreciate you adding the CL links. I think the 55 400 in Dallas looks like a decent car, if you are a restoring type.

The 2 21st series Clippers with the 356 represent such good value in an interesting car. One is close to me, as I live in Des Moines Iowa.

Think these have been posted before,

1929 motor
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/4629453571.html

1956 Clipper
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/4629469375.html

FYI,
The 55 400 in the Dallas listing is from Florida by way of Ebay. It was going to be used on that Chicago blue 55 Caribbean that had the garage fall on it. The Caribbean was too much for him, so he sold it, I wonder where it went?

on the LWB car for sale, I was told this farmer in Danville, IL went to the Chicago Packard dealer in 1954 to buy a new Clipper or Cavalier , the dealer had a leftover new 53' 7 passenger Executive sedan that they sold him for 700 bucks less than a 1954 Cavalier, and that's how a farmer ends up with a 7 passenger as a Family car

Did you notice the dealer tag on the trunk?
An equally handsome, pretty '55 Patrician, rarely seen green and white:
http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/cto/4543411360.html

The seller sent this;
The dealer emblem on the trunk says: Bell - Kettle, Detroit.
The: 5582-9332 is the Vin #,
Paint color is: GB (don't know what that means)
Trim # is: 63 (don't know what that means)

Was bell kettle one of the Packard dealers, or a used car dealer?

Somebody has to save this 33 from being parted out and turned into a street rod:

http://m.ebay.com/itm/181498880285?nav=SEARCH

Yes, I hope it gets saved. But I am wondering if it's a Super 8 as described, it looks like an Eight which, from the cowl rearward, was using up leftover Light Eight sedan bodies.

In the Q&A section the seller notes it is in fact not a Super Eight.

Thanks JD, I didn't read that far. For those unfamiliar with Packard's shenanigans resulting from the poor sales of the Light Eight in 1932, the 32 Eight short wheelbase was 129-1/2, as was 1934. But the Light Eight was 127 and for 1933 in order to use up left over Light Eight sedan bodies for the base 5-pass sedan the wheelbase shrunk back to 127, same as the Light Eight had used the year before. Big clue is the shape of the rear quarter window.

Hi

Not often I would take issue with one of O_D's assessments but:

"For those unfamiliar with Packard's shenanigans resulting from the poor sales of the Light Eight in 1932,..."

Quite the contrary, the '32 Light Eight sold only too well, accounting for 40.7% of their total production but doing so as terrible money losers! From their original introductory Sedan prices of $1,750, adjustment came quickly to $1,895...still giving away the factory. The '31 826 comparable '32 901 sales plummeted 35%, suggesting the Light Eight cannibalized sales from its next higher sister model....the Depression did the rest.

The '33 1001's were simply restyled '32 Light Eights just to utilize the tooling in hopes of recouping some of their investments, this time at $2,150 to $2,250. It might be fair also to say it displaced the singular 129.5" wb 901 sedan successor for '33. At 1,881 units, they were still giving away the store on each one out the door.

Steve

I find the painted radiator shell more nauseating than turning it into a street rod.