Hot Rods Let's see some Packards!

I owned this '37 several years ago. I ended up trading it straight across for a restored '30 Model A with a rumble seat but I kept the (original?) floor mats which I'm using in my Edsel now. I wouldn't mind owning a 2 tone '55 or '56 someday even if it had to be a moredoor....

 

Is this the cat's pajamas?

 

Packard tears up the Milwaukee Mile!

 

This is a very cool car.

 

The Flintstone Flyer, I like the gold paint scheme better

 

Always thought one of these would look great with some mild custom touches, say chrome reverse or Skylark wires with narrow white walls, plus some mellow Watson touches.

I also am curious if lowering could be achieved by somehow spoofing the load leveling feature to set the "normal" height lower. I'm assuming it uses some sort of mechanical sensor.

 

1934 8 cylinder

 

Conversion designed for Monart Motors in Milwaukee by Brooks Stevens.

 

2 Packard airport limousines.The one in the lower images is a very solid car and recently sold for more than 50K$

 

I guess I will never understand, why the 1948...50 body style is so much neglected, I'd say underestimated, especially there in USA...? Smooth, balanced design, not over done. The way I see most 50's 60's "smooth" customs were done in similar style than these were right from the factory... Open your eyes and look at these cars without pre-judgement.

 

Maybe people don't like the bathtub Packards simply because they are not as pretty as the 30s models? Compared to their contemporaries of the same period is another story. The first generation of post war styling was a bit drab compared to the mid 50s or early 30s.

 

Here's my 1954 327ci. This is the first time its run in about 20 years.
My plan is to use it to power a little roadster pick-up
http://vid546.photobucket.com/albums/hh405/bobbytnm/Packard/20160518_210942_zpsbtd2bpdu.mp4




I hope the link works

 

When I first joined up here, I thought I owned a 29 Packard.
Turned out, the car had been rebodied at some point, with a 28 Cadillac body, so now I have a Cadillac.
Still love Packards, even the ugly 40s ones.

There was a Packard motor home in a thread here last year, that was so freak in cool. Anyone care to put a link or pic of it here, I would, but don't have any time left today to do it.

 

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My '56, getting closer...

 

Grandiose Styling












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http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...-car-pic-motherlode-packard-race-cars.295742/

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This is the 40 we did just sold it.

 

Fan Attic thats one sharp looking wagon!!!!!! Bruce.

 

That one should be on the rotting thread. LOL. Bruce.

 

That's KOOL.Make good yard art. Bruce.

 

I dig Packards, too. Grandpa Hodges had a '39 that lasted them through the war and afterwards, then a '49, and a '53. Unfortunately all gone long before I came along. Here are a couple of renderings I've done on Packards. The first was a quick 'n' dirty mild custom treatment on a buddy's brother's car; skirts, dropped, shaved a bit, flippers:

And then a personal exercise on an image of a stocker...chopped, dropped and smoothed.

 

Timeless Style...





http://www.maybellinebook.com/2014/06/clenet-13-series-1-on-road-again-in.html











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