I figured I would start a new thread as the other one was getting pretty long.

The following information was just uploaded to the website:

1955 Service Counselors (No. 7-13) *Note these also contain 1956 information

1951 Packard Owner's Manual

1952 Packard "Show Stopper" Brochure

Thanks to Howard Hanson and Loyd Smith for the donation of this material.

Thanks,

Kev, what you and those who have contributed are doing is great! Email me and let's put links back and forth between your website and the PV8C & Panther websites.

--Craig

Thanks Craig, if you guys ever need any storage space let me know. I currently have 5 gigs of available server space on the website. I'll drop you a PM.

Ok '56 guys, it's all about you today:

1956 Owner's Manual
1956 Executive Owners's Manual Supplement
1956 Packard Sales Folder
1956 Executive Sales Folder
Story of a Living Legend (This 21 page booklet is a nice Packard history piece as well as a '56 Brochure)

All of the above is now available for download. Thanks to Howard Hanson for donating more of his wonderfull collection.

Enjoy!

Well here is todays daily digest, this goes out to all you V8 guys.

From Howard Hanson:

1955 STB's
1956 STB's
1956 Service Counselors (thanks to Loyd Smith who also sent the 56 Counselors)

From Craig Hendrickson:

1955 Patrician Owner's Manual
1955 Torsion Level Suspension Brochure

Thanks guys for helping out with the donation of content.

Enjoy

I have repeatedly tried to sign on to the Packardinfo site at the sign-on page using the userid and password sent to me by the sign up procedure. It will NOT let me in. My userid is PackardV8 and the password is a combination of upper and lower case alphabetic letters. What am i doing wrong???

Check your PM

The 1954 STB's are now online for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks to John Shireman for the donation of this material.

The 1948 Accessories Brochure is now available for downloading.

Thanks to whoever uploaded this to the FTP site. Please identify yourself so that proper credit may be given.

Enjoy

I have been asked by a few folks that have slow internet connections if they could get a CD or DVD of the material on the website. Currently the site has over a 1 Gigabyte of Packard related information for download. So the information will only fit on DVD.

So here is what I will do for those that want a copy:

For $5 (US Funds), I will mail you a DVD that contains everything on the website up to the point I receive your request. This includes the postage to anywhere in the US.

Where your 5 dollars goes:

$1.59 Shipping (current media rate to US addresses)
$1.00 DVD
$0.85 Packard Materials
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$3.44 Hard Costs

The extra $1.56 will go towards site hosting fee's and the such.

As you can see I am not doing this for profit, just trying to allow folks out there with dial-up connections the chanch to get a copy of the material that is here on the website.

If you are interested, please send me an email.

Here are todays specials, hot of the grille (yes grille not grill):

1937 Sales Folder Brochure (this is a nice 33 page piece)

1954 Accessories Brochure this shows all the neat accesories and trinkets what where available from the dealer.

Thanks to Howard Hanson for this material.

Bon Appetite

Here are the latest items on the website:

1950 STB's (some are missing, but it's a real good start)
1948 48T-25 STB Added
1953 53T-8 STB Added
1954 54T-2 STB Added
1954 Sales Folder Brochure

I think we are getting close to having a complete set of Post-War STB's

Thanks to Howard Hanson for the donation of this material.

The 1947 Service Counselors are now complete, numbers 1-22 are now online. Thanks to Howard Hanson for filling in the missing ones.

The 1954 Service Counselors and now online (Numbers 1-12 + the Index). These also contain information about the 55th series cars. There looks to be a few Counselors about the Twin Ultramatic.

Much thanks to Howard Hanson for his continued generosity.

The following is now available on the website:

1946 Packard Service Counselors
1953 Packard Service Counselors

Thanks to Howard Hanson for sharing more of his wonderful collection.

The website is getting close to having a complete set (1946-1956) of Post-War STB's and Service Counselors online. If you can help fill in any of the missing pieces of the puzzle, please let me know. I am trying to find someone that may have any of the 57 and up Studebaker ones that may contain pre-57 Packard information.

Thanks,

For you Studepackards or Packardbakers out there, The 1957-1958 Packard Body Parts Catalog is now online. This also includes the 1953-1958 Studebaker Body Parts also.

New on the website:

1947 Borg Clock manual. Dave Kenney found this attached to his radio from a string. Very neat piece.

Thanks to Dave for sharing this with everyone.

The 1955 Accessories Brochure is now available for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks to Howard Hanson for his continued support.

Geez, those pesky Borg were on Earth even earlier than Star Trek indicated! On the hour, does it chime: "Resistance is futile, you will be assimiliated!" <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

The Packardinfo.com website is great or what! We learn something new every day. Thanks Kev! Keep up the good work.

The 1952 Service Counselors are now online. Thanks again to Howard Hanson.

He actually sent it to me earlier in the week, but I was traveling for business this past week. Here are the states I had meetings in: CA > TX > NJ > CT > NYC > PA > NYC > NJ > CA all in the span of 5 days. I'm dog tired.

I'm hoping to get some work done on the '54 this weekend. But it's supposed to be around 108 here. That makes for one hot garage. So we will see how that goes.

Just a note to Kevin: all the documents I sent for scanning and uploading to your site were returned to me in fine condition on June 23. I am very pleased with the quality of your scans, and am very grateful for the many hours you put in as you scanned the documents.

Thanks much, Kevin, for your fine efforts.

All the best,

Mark in Alaska

P. S. Forecasted high here today is 57!

-MKB

Having a HEAT wave, there in Alaska, Are you? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
I'm Happy if it gets below 95 here, this time of year. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Great i'm glad to hear that the materials made it back to you in a timely manner. I see the postoffice didn't end up routing them to Outer Mongolia like they did on the way to me. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The 1951 Packard Service Counselors are now online. Numbers 1-14 including the index.

Thanks to Howard Hanson for the donation of this material.

Mark (aka CaptainBristol), sent me down a few more pieces from his collection to scan. So I just finished and here is what is new:

Added 2 more STBs to the 1956 year that where missing

1956 and prior years Ultramatic Infomation from the 1957-1961 Studebaker STB's

1950 Ultramatic Service Counselors

1949 Dealer Accessories Book (used by the dealer to order accessories)

I think we are getting real close to having a complete set of technical information for the Post-War Packards.

There MUST be some Good PRE-war data available out there Somewhere ?
That's Not Copywrited, that is. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I havent found that Pre-War person yet that wants to open the Kimono and share what they have. But I am always looking.

Thanks to a delivery of material from John Sauser, here is the latest that has been uploaded to the website:

American BrakeBloc Brake Service Manual
1935 "Gateway to Ownership" Brochure
1955 Serviceman's Training Manual (Mechanical Changes and Torsion Level Suspension)
1954 Gear Start Ultramatic Serviceman's Training Manual

Thanks again to John Sauser for the donation of this materal!

Howard Hanson wrote a great How-To article on adapting a $18 JC-Whitney Fuel Sender to work in 1956 Packard. This should also work for any Packard from 1951-56. If you can't find one of those hard to find Ford units to use as a replacement, this modern universal kit with Howard's instructions should help you out and be more forgiving of modern fuels.

Anyways the article is now on the Website for your enjoyment.

If anyone elese would like to submit a How-to article I would be more than happy to have it on the website.

Thanks,

Well nothing new to update you with this week. I figure either I have picked you all clean of information, or you are all out having fun with your Packard's for the summer.

As soon as I receive any additional donations of material for the website I will post them ASAP. The post-war information we have out there is getting pretty extensive and is becoming a great one-stop resource for Packard generated material.

The pre-war section is still very thin. Either people dont want to share the prewar information, they dont have any, or they just dont frequent this forum. Either way I am sure it will fill in over time as people discover the website. For some reason the National Clubs (except of course the Packard V8 Club) have choosen not to include the website on their Packard links pages. I wonder why?? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

BigKev -

I can't speak for others, but this has been a very busy summer for me - barely made it to the CVOA meet in June and the Packard meet in Warren last month. So much work to do at my folks house, I haven't even turned a key in one of the olds cars this year, but still chipping away at the groundwork for a new garage.

Come the fall, when the weather is no longer good for outdoor work ( maybe as late as November), I will have some material to scan and forward. I'll e-mail you to find out what resolution is best for your site and how to upload when I am ready to proceed.

Although my focus is on the V8 cars, I think your site is well on the way to becoming one of the best online resources out there for the Packard public at-large.

As for the lack of particpation in pre-war areas, part of that may be due to there being less of that info out there and a smaller audience with fewer people who may be active online. That sort of mirrors the participation in this DF, but at least we have Speedster (Rick) and his '29 Project to keep the prewar flame alive. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I figured most people are busy in the summer with their cars, vacations and honey-do lists. So no worries. Even online, people tend to be more active during the Winter months.

I had a few people ask me if I was still actively adding content to the website. So I just wanted to let everyone know that the website is still going strong, just havent had anything else to put online recently.

For anyone interested scanning content, 150 dpi is fine for normal stuff (brochures, STB's, etc). If there is something very detailed (like a wiring diagram) with small fonts then 300 dpi is best. Any larger is overkill and I will end up having to down-sample it to make it manageable for people with slow connections. If you have a full version of Adobe Acrobat, you can scan directly to a PDF. If anyone needs help with it just drop me a PM and I will help you out. You can also send me photocopies and I will take care of the scanning on this end. I'm pretty flexible and thankfull for any material people want to put on the website.

P.S. - I PM'ed Peter Gariepy several weeks ago asking that your site to be added to the Packard Links thread, but have seen no change in that regard. (Can I be the only one who aked that of him?) IMHO, having the "Packard Info Newsletter" thread pinned to the top, isn't quite the same as your site having a link on Peter G's Packard Links thread. That seems rather unappreciative since you were kind enough to give the AACA Packard Forums a link on your website's Packard Links page.

As for other Packard clubs failing to provide a link in exchange, it doesn't paint them in a favorable light. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for sending the PM, I appreciate it. Peter maybe out enjoying his summer also, or working on the spellchecker for Rick!

As far as the other clubs, the only thing I can figure is that either they don't take the site seriously, or they do and don't like the fact have all that info up there for free public consumption. Either way is fine. As long as people find it useful, then it serves it's purpose and that's good enough for me. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Kevin: Take my word on this PAC and PIC know of your site an probably take it reel serious, and don't like it one bit. I would be willing to bet money that they have come into your site and looked it over real close and extracted what information they think they can use. Like I stated in the begining they will share nothing in return, with people they know are none club members.

Here is an example of what I mean. The Packards in the movies that in on the PAC site. When it first started we had a person from PAC come in the forum and asked forum members to help contribute to his list. When asked on two different times to publish the list in here, you got the vague reply if you want a copy send me a PM for a copy of the list. He can't give a simple answer to the rest of us why he couldn't publish a copy of the list in this forum and share it with all. What he is saying in a back handed way, I will gladly take your information, but I am not going to freely share the complete list with people outside of what is on the PAC web site. Maybe that person who started the movie roster for PAC would like to come in and make some comments.

You all can bet your bottom dollar that in the near furture there will be a movie list for all to read in this forum.

John F. Shireman

I just uploaded a 700+ page, 3 volume set of information on everything Ultramatic. This covers every Ultramatic made and includes all the STB's, SC's, and Service Manuals.

Take a look at this as it is a very complete set. I had to scan it at a only 96 dpi as any larger would have made it completely impractical for people to download.

Thanks to John Shireman for the donation of this complete set of work.

WoW, That Sounds like Great Stuff. I'll go 'Check It Out'! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Thanks to Dave Kenney, the following item is now on the website:

Borg Warner "The OVERDRIVE" user and service manual. This covers R10 and R11 overdrives.

Just a quick thanks to the folks at PI that have linked to the PackardInfo.com site from their links page.

Hopefully more Packardites will find the site and in doing so donate material that everyone in Packardom can enjoy. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The Parts X-Ref Database that was on the PackardInfo.com site never worked the way I liked it, so I dumped it. That's what I get for trying to shoe-horn a ready made piece. So I wrote my own database handling routines and created a new database to go with it.

So what all that BS means is there is a new Packard Part X-Ref on the website the is vastly easier to use. Now you can search and add to the X-Ref from the same page. I have added a few parts to the list to get it started. If you guys have some X-Ref information you would like to share, please feel free to go to the website and add any information you have.

Hopefully it will fill in over time like the other parts of the site have.

Thanks,

Here is an early X-max present to those newer 55-56 Owners out there.

Thanks to the work of Howard Hanson, the scanning and the upload of the 1955-1956 Service Manual has begun.

75% of the manual has already been scanned and is online (in chapters/sections). The other Sections will come online in the next few days.

Thanks again to Howard Hanson for taking the time to do this.

Mr. Hanson has been a valuable contributor for quite some time for those of us seeking knowledge of Packards. His concise descriptions and explanations have helped many of us who couldn't find the answers anywhere else.
A tip of the hat to Howard who is still helping us Packard folk. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The entire 55-56 Service Manual is now online. All the sections now have the correct cover pages. So if you downloaded any of the sections posted earlier, you can just re-download them again to get the updated versions.

Thanks again to Howard Hanson for the donation of this material.