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Looking for a OD square starter solenoid for a '37.

Bill Lyons
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Also looking for the Holy Grail and a Unicorn

Did anyone refer this request to someone in California whose dad just died of COVID?

If not there is another scammer.

Here is some information about the scam.

I got a call from 925-399-9716. Last name Bell. Claimed he had gotten a call from a member in Texas telling him about my ad.

Said his dad had just died and had bumpers, front fenders, sidemount mirrors and a NOS starter solenoid.

I said I wanted the mirrors and the solenoid. He said he was leaving CA to go home to Montana and couldn't take them on the plane. He wanted the money transferred thru a phone app. He couldn't take Paypal.

I told him I would have to get back to him and haven't heard from him. A online search on the phone number reported similar scams.

Sounds like a scam. I've asked members of the Packard group to "check out" some vendors. That can be providing references or even going and checking out the parts.The latter way did turn up a scammer and that was about 20 years ago. About the time inmates reading Hemmings started answering ads. Just out of boredom I'm sure.
Anyway the first year for Packard overdrive. (Econo-Drive) was 1939.

Sounds like a scam. I've asked members of the Packard group to "check out" some vendors. That can be providing references or even going and checking out the parts.The latter way did turn up a scammer and that was about 20 years ago. About the time inmates reading Hemmings started answering ads. Just out of boredom I'm sure.
Anyway the first year for Packard overdrive. (Econo-Drive) was 1939.

Sounds like a scam. I've asked members of the Packard group to "check out" some vendors. That can be providing references or even going and checking out the parts.The latter way did turn up a scammer and that was about 20 years ago. About the time inmates reading Hemmings started answering ads. Just out of boredom I'm sure.
Anyway the first year for Packard overdrive. (Econo-Drive) was 1939.

PCKRD320. Thanks for the input. My car is a very early '38 and has an Owen Dyneto (OD) starter. I guess it was a holdover from '37.

Here is another one. Claims he is parting out this car. Fred Godwin.

classiccars.com/listings/view/1361608/19 ... for-sale-in-cadillac-michigan-49601

Maybe you misread. It says he’s parting with it, not parting it out!