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#497668 - 03/27/08 04:58 PM
1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
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AlK
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Registered: 09/04/02
Posts: 1096
Loc: Salem, Alabama
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Now before you guys start sending evil nasty vibes my way, This is not what you think. There is no chance of this car getting a 350 Chebbie while it is in my possesion. Now that I have your attention, here is the rest of the story.
Last October I saw an ebay ad for a 1955 400 for an opening bid of $5 (yes five dollars). There was no reserve and also no bids. The car did not look to bad so when the auction ended (early I might add) I sent the guy an e-mail.
He answers back with his phone number and that is when things started to get interesting. Long story short, I bought 6 Packards and a warehouse full of parts. One of the cars was a 56 Clipper. What makes it a hot rod is the fact that it has a Packard 374 twin 4bbl setup in it. Along with a carribean front end. At first I thought he just put the carribean hood on it, but the fact there are no holes on the front or back fenders for the radio antennea leads me to believe that it was an entire front clip. Now the guy that I bought this treasure trove from did not do this work, it was done by the original owner who was, as I was told, a Packard employee in Illinois.
As of today, I have had the brakes gone in to and only had to do the back ones as the fronts were already done. Four new tires, new shocks all the way around, gas tank resealed, installed a rebuilt starter, installed the left side muffler and resonator(that was in the trunk all wrapped up in burlap, checked out the torsion leveler motor and it works fine as the car is now level. It came back from where I got it with its nose in the dirt and the back end in the clouds. I have a much better lower front bumper from the parts stash so that will go on, I will have to have the rear bumper corners re-chromed as they are not presentable. When I get the car home this weekend I will make some prepratory actions to insure that the engine is free will try to start it. Now I know that some of you might say "why not see if the engine is free first" Good point, however if fate should blind side me, part of the parts stash were 4 engines, 1 of which was a complete 374(only 1 4 bbl) and 1 of the others was a rebuilt 374 short block. So I am going to take the easy way out first and hope I get lucky. I will try to take some pictures this week end and get them posted. The body on the car is not bad. I would say it is 98% solid. I has two holes in the left rear 1/4 panal about large and small fist size. The rockers are good. There are some surface rust spots all around the holes where the spring clips are that hold the side chrome to the body. The car had received a lousy paint job sometime ago, I really think I could have done better with a paint brush. The roof is cracked and peeling as are the sides. but nothing that a good painter could not handle. If all goes well I see no reason why this car cannot see the road by late summer. It will never be a 400 point show car because I have neither the time or patiences to do a frame off resto. With that in mind, I will be putting in an after market A/C. I am leaning toward finishing the carribean affect by putting in rear antenneas and maybe a hidden am/fm cassette/dvd combo, I should be able to find some room somewhere in there, after all in most Packards you could hold orgies in them, so a small sound setup should be no problem. I will keep everyone posted on progress.
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1965 Dodge Dart Gt ragtop - PALE RIDER,
1964 Dodge Dart 270 ragtop - LIL DARLIN,
1964 Dodge Dart Gt Ragtop custom - THE COPPERHEAD,
1955 Packard Patrician - BLACK DUKE,
1955 Packard Patrician - DUKE JUNIOR,
1962 Dodge Dart 440 4dr sdn - ROOT BEER FLOAT
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#497820 - 03/28/08 09:27 AM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
[Re: mrpushbutton]
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AlK
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Registered: 09/04/02
Posts: 1096
Loc: Salem, Alabama
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AIK-there is a '56 Executive out there that is an exceptionally low mile, original car. It was discovered about 20 years ago by Dr. Art Burrichter, a well known dealer. The cool thing about this particular car is that it was ordered with the dual-quad Carribean intake setup and a three-on-the-tree stick shift. I saw the car at Hershey a few years ago and the new owner told me it hauls ass!
Is this car an Ultramatic car?
yes it is and if the odometer is correct it is low mileage. 33K
now for the big question --- how do I add pictures?????
Edited by AlK (03/28/08 09:28 AM)
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1965 Dodge Dart Gt ragtop - PALE RIDER,
1964 Dodge Dart 270 ragtop - LIL DARLIN,
1964 Dodge Dart Gt Ragtop custom - THE COPPERHEAD,
1955 Packard Patrician - BLACK DUKE,
1955 Packard Patrician - DUKE JUNIOR,
1962 Dodge Dart 440 4dr sdn - ROOT BEER FLOAT
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#497873 - 03/28/08 11:58 AM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
[Re: AlK]
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Barry Wolk
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Registered: 06/17/03
Posts: 1154
Loc: Farmington Hills, MI
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Upload your pictures to a free service like Photobucket.
http://photobucket.com
To do that I simply put the Jpeg on my desktop and name it something I'll recognize. When you hit the Choose button in Photobucket it will grab that picture when you hit the Upload button.
It may take awhile but the picture will end up in your Photobucket album. You can resize or edit the picture in Photobucket by hitting the Edit button over the picture in your album. You can save it full size and web size if you'd like. If you post too big a picture we will not see all of it.
In order to get the picture into this thread you simply hit "IMG code" below the picture on Photobucket and paste it into your reply. Hit Reply and your picture will be posted.
Was that clear as mud?
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#497875 - 03/28/08 12:09 PM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
[Re: AlK]
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mrpushbutton
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Registered: 09/02/05
Posts: 1209
Loc: Detroit, MI - the home of Pack...
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step one, get them to the correct size, I find that about 600 pixels wide is good, dosen't run off of the page and make the thread hard to enjoy. If you can't re-size through your computer's photo-handling software go to http://www.ifranview.com and download their FREE photo software. I use it and like it a lot. After you get your pictures sized and ready remember what folder they are in (make them easy to find) and go to the full reply screen. Type in your text
then click on the file manager blue underlined text in the "'post options" section at the bottom. Click on it, tell us a little something about the picture in the top box (text only) click on the "browse...." box, select the photo, then click on the "add file" box to the right of the "Browse" box. You'll see the little arrows spin, indicating that it's-a-workin', then when it's done hit "done adding files and submit. Really consider the resizing thing, it makes a big difference, and makes less work for the mods, who have to resize gargantuian photos (which come out of every digital camera today). Try this, let me know how you do.
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#497907 - 03/28/08 03:14 PM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
[Re: mrpushbutton]
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AlK
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Registered: 09/04/02
Posts: 1096
Loc: Salem, Alabama
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unfortunatly my computer here at work is very limited and I do not have access to photobucket. They are very tight security wise and if you key something in wrong that someone does not like you hear about it.
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1965 Dodge Dart Gt ragtop - PALE RIDER,
1964 Dodge Dart 270 ragtop - LIL DARLIN,
1964 Dodge Dart Gt Ragtop custom - THE COPPERHEAD,
1955 Packard Patrician - BLACK DUKE,
1955 Packard Patrician - DUKE JUNIOR,
1962 Dodge Dart 440 4dr sdn - ROOT BEER FLOAT
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#497917 - 03/28/08 04:03 PM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
[Re: mrpushbutton]
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AlK
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Registered: 09/04/02
Posts: 1096
Loc: Salem, Alabama
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You don't understand, Photobucket may be the greatest thing since sliced bread, my company security firewall won't let me get to it, they consider it an unsafe site.
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1965 Dodge Dart Gt ragtop - PALE RIDER,
1964 Dodge Dart 270 ragtop - LIL DARLIN,
1964 Dodge Dart Gt Ragtop custom - THE COPPERHEAD,
1955 Packard Patrician - BLACK DUKE,
1955 Packard Patrician - DUKE JUNIOR,
1962 Dodge Dart 440 4dr sdn - ROOT BEER FLOAT
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#498586 - 03/31/08 04:48 PM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
[Re: AlK]
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AlK
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Registered: 09/04/02
Posts: 1096
Loc: Salem, Alabama
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well the size thing is a bit off, but I can't download software here.
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1965 Dodge Dart Gt ragtop - PALE RIDER,
1964 Dodge Dart 270 ragtop - LIL DARLIN,
1964 Dodge Dart Gt Ragtop custom - THE COPPERHEAD,
1955 Packard Patrician - BLACK DUKE,
1955 Packard Patrician - DUKE JUNIOR,
1962 Dodge Dart 440 4dr sdn - ROOT BEER FLOAT
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#498596 - 03/31/08 05:28 PM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
[Re: AlK]
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Leonard Shepherd
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Registered: 06/27/07
Posts: 190
Loc: Virginia
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I reduced the size for you.
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#498652 - 03/31/08 09:24 PM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
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Leonard Shepherd
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Registered: 06/27/07
Posts: 190
Loc: Virginia
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I don't want to hi-jack your thread, but went I was at the Studebaker Meet at South Bend last summer, a lot of us took our cars to the Osceola Drag Strip. There was a Packard Clipper that did very well. Not sure of what ET or speed it did.
It has two 4s and 3 on the tree.
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Edited by Leonard Shepherd (04/01/08 12:28 AM)
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#498727 - 04/01/08 07:07 AM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
[Re: Leonard Shepherd]
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AlK
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Registered: 09/04/02
Posts: 1096
Loc: Salem, Alabama
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very interesting. the air cleaner setup shows me what I have to look for. Thanks for reducing the photos, I can't download software at work and they don't let us use the floppy drive any more for writing only reading. i will delete my post with the large pictures.
thanks
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1965 Dodge Dart Gt ragtop - PALE RIDER,
1964 Dodge Dart 270 ragtop - LIL DARLIN,
1964 Dodge Dart Gt Ragtop custom - THE COPPERHEAD,
1955 Packard Patrician - BLACK DUKE,
1955 Packard Patrician - DUKE JUNIOR,
1962 Dodge Dart 440 4dr sdn - ROOT BEER FLOAT
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#498967 - 04/02/08 08:56 AM
Re: 1956 Packard Clipper Hot Rod
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AlK
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Registered: 09/04/02
Posts: 1096
Loc: Salem, Alabama
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Mrpushbutton:
You are absolutely on the mark. The only one that I know for a fact that had it is one that traded hands for $1000.
The whole setup, air cleaner, carbs, and manifold could run as high as 5K or higher depending on correctness and condition. Not my bag for this car. I just bought 2 of the aftermarket kind.
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1965 Dodge Dart Gt ragtop - PALE RIDER,
1964 Dodge Dart 270 ragtop - LIL DARLIN,
1964 Dodge Dart Gt Ragtop custom - THE COPPERHEAD,
1955 Packard Patrician - BLACK DUKE,
1955 Packard Patrician - DUKE JUNIOR,
1962 Dodge Dart 440 4dr sdn - ROOT BEER FLOAT
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