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does anyone know where i can get a cheap a$$ 120 business/club coupe at???

Your not giving up on your '55 are you? Look forward to seeing you finish that one.

no way jose....would never do that. ;0)

What year(s) would you prefer ?

37 would be preferred as my grandfather had a 1937 138CD on a stretched 120 Chassis limo. but really i would like anything from 36 to 38 or so.

Last year I bought, and then sold, (3) 38-39 110/120 Coupes. Only good enough for, umm...creative projects, as they were NOT restorable as original. Too much rust and missing parts. As far as I know, the fellow I sold them to (up by Sherman) hasn't done a thing with them. I could put you in touch if you were "scrap hunting". Please contact me directly at flackmaster@sbcglobal.net as I do not want to be publicly associated with these cars.

Hank,

'38 and later bodies are all steel too!

educate me further please....;0)

38-41 were all steel....

and are you implying that the all steel is a good or bad thing.

what where the 36 and 37 made of...

i am guessing you are talking about the roof between the different years...

thanks Oz ;0)

Hank

As John pointed out, the Senior Divis (what some of us call "REAL" Packards) continued to utilze "composite" body construction thru the end of Packard V-12 production in the summer of '39.

John coined the term "chicken coop construction", which pretty well covers it. Wood frames, with sheet metal nailed over it, and a top that actually had chicken wire to support fabric roofs.

Until technology gave us the ability to reliably stamp out large sheets of curved sheet-metal, it was about the only way to make vehicle bodies. The superiority of an all-steel body is well-demonstrated in mid 1930's General Motors & Chrysler Corp. "promo" films that were shown at auto shows clear into the 1950's. If you think there is ANYTHING good to say about so called "composite" construction, you dont want to know about these films

What it shows, is what happens when you roll cars over at speed.

The "turret top" of the "modern" (again, these films were prepared in the mid 1930's to advertise the then "new" method of all-steel construction) both the General Motors and Chrysler cars survived nicely. They even showed the Chrysler being driven away after a total "flip" end for end.

By contrast, they showed what happens when a composite body car rolls over at speed. They simply disintegrate.

Parking my 1938 Cadillac V-16 and '38 Packard Twelve side by side, no question why I made the choice, since I could only keep one car, kept the Packard V-12. Sure, when you close the door on a Packard Twelve, it "SOUNDS" neater than the '38 Cad. V-16. And sure, the Packard V-12, with its significantly larger more powerful engine than the Cad V-16, and its vastly more sophisticated suspension, is MUCH more fun to rough up. But dont kid yourselves - going to an all steel construction brought us MUCH safer, more durable cars.

so the entire framing on the 35-37 is all wood....that is weird.....so the only solid steel is 38 and on....

crazy...i would have never thought that.