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I bought four shocks today for the Caribbean from a fellow who deals in obsolete shocks. He had just acquired a 55 Patrician which is a good solid car but has much surface rust. Even the doglegs are solid. He did have a disintegrated bearing on the worm end of the T/L motor. The worm gear itself seems OK. I gave him a new bearing and also told him about putting a grease fitting in the plug.
He put all new brakes and a gas line on already. I did notice something that struck me as peculiar. On the trunk the script "Packard Patrician" was chrome-plated not gold? All the other script on the car was gold. Is this normal?
In any case we have a new Packard owner and he should have it painted and on the road next year.

Randy, the chrome script on the trunklid is correct for that car.

Thanks for the response Joel. It's always nice to learn something new.

With my advancing age, I learn something new every day. Even if I learned it years ago. :)

Randy -

The answer was right under your nose here - in the Model Info page for the 55th Series Patrician:

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Brian, much like the tool I might be looking for when working on the car. Right in front of me
I wuz gonna say right in my hand but Keith would have too much fun with that one.

Hey Randy:
Just found this site. I would have answered you also but it seems that it has been taken care of. Talk to all of you later.