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Re: What's the Weirdest Experience You've Ever Had with a V8 Packard?
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Not sure if this counts as weird as much as obnoxious, but once while driving my '55 Clipper Panama 2 door hardtop (black over yellow 2 tone) I passed a slow poke in a Rolls on a sweeping 2 lane feeder ramp onto the approach to the San Fran Bay bridge...the obnoxious part is that I did it at close to 60mph while on the inside lane... glanced over at the driver of the Rolls (who looked like he just wet himself) and not only did I smile at him but took a hand off the wheel to wave!

I used to terrorize the young'uns who to this day probably still can't understand how they were beat by such an ancient jalopy. Packard V8 power and TL suspension baybee!

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Re: What's the Weirdest Experience You've Ever Had with a V8 Packard?
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One time I was checking out a project. Dude said he redid the brakes but they didn't work. Ended up riding along anyway to test drive a car with no brakes. Fortunately this was in Smalltown USA in Flatland county...

Also he said it had an exhaust leak and you can hear it on camera. Though I'm not sure if that diagnosis is correct. Not that it matters now, this was like 2 years ago.

Believe it or not this was "fully restored" then in a museum not even 20 years ago. Tells you a bit about what "museum quality" means, as surely not much more than the atrocious paint job had been done since then...




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Re: What's the Weirdest Experience You've Ever Had with a V8 Packard?
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Someone did a good job of sanding the trim without damaging the rust.

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