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This could be a beautiful car, but this 1 has some very obvious flaws. Who dreamt up this color combo? It's not my cup of tea. The data plate is not original and the numbers are not for this car. That ugly alternator is an eyesore. What's up with the angle of the gearshift? That's just the tip of the iceberg.

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On that white car, I find pre-war cars painted white completely incorrect and odd. When I mean white, I mean white, not cream/ivory or any other yellowish-white color. White was traditionally reserved for service vehicles (police/ambulance/milk truck/construction/plumbers/etc). So every time time I see someone paint a pre-war car white, I always think "There goes another milk wagon!". Just my opinion.

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I agree. I think that when you see a pre-war car painted in 1950 O'Keefe & Merritt appliance white, it was usually used for wedding service and inevitably has a tilt-wheel and everything that goes with it. I believe that car was modified here in the KC area .

go to all maroon and it's a pretty car (well, a quart of engine enamel wouldn't hurt, either). Any info on the gearshift?

Wow, that's garish to a fault. Is Barnum & Bailey missing one of their circus wagons?

And get rid of that hideous oil filter and buggered oil lines from the cooler - a replacement filter in the correct configuration has been available for a long time.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought pre-war cars had generators, not alternators. Besides the garish paint job, the interior bothers me too. I would think that the interior leather would match the rumble. While the wood graining on the dash looks OK, I would have thought that the tops of the doors would be wood grained as well. And last but not least, can anybody tell me what that red thing is on the steering column? I guess it's an after-market turn signal.

The seats are too flat and don't have the "buttons" in it anymore. The rumble seat has no arm rests. The arm rests in the door are wrong.

@bumblebee: yes it should have a generator but this 1 is "upgrade" to an alternator and most likely 12v. Electronic ignition requires 12v.

Doesn't have enough driving lights.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought pre-war cars had generators, not alternators

You're somewhat right, postwar Packards had generators as well. Alternators came along some years after the last Packard.