pkhammer

I'm still figuring someone just bought some badly needed parts, at least I hope that is the case. I would've never guessed north of $20k though. WOW!! Proves the old adage to be true though, one man's junk................

Auction ended after several extensions. $20,004.00 not including buyers premium or taxes!

1 hour or so south of Winchester straight down I-81. Maybe next time! Plan to bring the T/A. After a couple Texas Teas I think a couple smoky burnouts in the street might be in order. I'll have my Wife bring bail money. I may be nearly 61 but mentally I'm still a juvenile! 🤪

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @TAKerry!!! You're not too far away so come on down to Harrisonburg, Va tonight and the filet is on me! We're pretty close in age, I'll be 61 next month!

A bargain at twice the price! There, I said it for you!

North of $9,000.00 with 6 1/2 hours to go. I probably won't see this auction conclude as I will likely be at Texas Roadhouse scarfing down a filet mignon and a Texas tea to celebrate my newest acquisition, and no, I'm not talking about this Packard!! 🤑

Bidding at $8,600.00 with 24 hours to go. It has surpassed my guess of final sale price. Matt brings up an excellent point above that altogether, this car holds $15-$20k in parts alone. Is there a market for them? Apparently so. I'm a parts seller and the car is close to home but I believe I'll let somebody else deal with this one. My days of parting out cars are pretty much behind me.

I'm wondering if perhaps there are two guys competing for this car that both need parts badly. Maybe once the auction is over, they can make contact, share the cost and both get what they need. In a perfect world maybe this could happen............🤔

I'd be more afraid of the interior. I wanted to get a photo the other day of me sitting in the car. I couldn't bring myself to do it without a hazmat suit.

Bidding at $7,003.00 with auction ending tomorrow evening. Will it top $10k? Stay tuned for another episode of "Packard finds a new home"!

Car sitting at $6,125.00 with two days to go! After thinking on this for a while, I suppose if I were restoring a '33 Packard V12, a $200K? car finished, and I had been desperately trying to locate some missing or busted parts, I could see paying $6k, or $8k or maybe even $10k for this car if everything I needed was right here in one package. Say I needed a headlight bucket, steering wheel, a few door handles, a gauge or two, an original carburetor and air cleaner, a distributor and a cylinder head, would I pay $10k to get the parts I needed to finish a $200k car? Heck yeah!! I'd be thrilled just to find a source for parts that until now seemed to be made of unobtainium. If one can afford to restore a car like that to begin with, that would be a fairly small price to pay to get what I needed. I'd then have a bunch of parts left over to sell to recoup at least some, if not all of my money.

That describes most of the antique car friends I have, well, except for the unlimited bank account part.

I had my head in it for a second or two yesterday. Not a pleasant smell! Bidding has topped $5,500.00. 2.5 days to go!

There's art least two people that want it. Bidding topped $4,500.00 today. Once sold I hope we can find out who bought it and what the plans are for it.

Packard condition -The good: The body is really very straight and solid with no outer rust thru EXCEPT in the rear fenders near the taillight stands. The body is covered with surface rust with some pitting present. What dents and dings are present are pretty minor. If anything is missing from the car other than the headlight lenses, it is not obvious to me. Even the interior, as rough as it is, seems to have pretty much everything present. If even so much as a door handle was missing, I didn't notice it. Even the engine compartment looks complete, except for the oil filler cap. 😲 -The not-so-good: The car appears to have been stored in maybe an open sided, dirt floor shed. It looks like it maybe had some protection from the weather, but no protection from rodents. The interior is the biggest mess I've ever witnessed in a car. Mold, mildew, and seats simply ravaged by mice! The piston laying on the front seat is hopefully from something else! The doors do open and close but not all that great, so there is some sag in the body, not just worn hinges. every nook and cranny of the engine is covered with debris such as pine needles and other organic bits. The oil filler cap is missing and what I could see in the tube most likely means the crankcase is full of debris as well. Expect acorns, seat stuffing, leaves.......filling the crankcase. The glass is all there but most is cracked or delaminated. Tires are obviously junk. I couldn't see under the car very well because it sat so low. What I could see appeared to be just a generous coating of surface rust. The tops of the poor dual horns were banged up from less than careful individuals banging the leading edge of the hood into them. The crank hole cover is also upside down. Egads! MORE PICS

I got to see the Packard in person after work today. What a shame what was once such an elegant automobile has been left to deteriorate to what exists now. Why is it when I get around an old car like this it seems to tug on my heart strings like a lost puppy or abused animal would? I don't feel that way when our toaster quits working and I throw it out. Are they both not just metal objects? What makes an old car different? This car seemed to say "Please sir, can you help me? I was once the pride and joy of my owner, grand and elegant, but I was abandoned, forgotten, and left with nobody to care for me. I was recently awoken from my slumber however and brought here! What will be my fate? Are you going to rescue me?". I assured the car that I was not the right guy to rescue it, but that it would indeed soon have a new owner that would hopefully rescue it. More photos and condition notes to follow.

Car has been bid up over $2,800.00 this morning with 3.5 days to go. 😬 I guess I'll stick with Model A Fords since I'm a cheapskate. 😁I'll stick with my previous guess and say it'll go to $8,500.00.

The "hammer" part is my last name. PK came from the fact my Dad was a Brethren Minister, so growing up I was known as the "Preacher's Kid". I almost went with "Hammerhead" since that was one of my many nicknames growing up. Actually, I still get called that quite often by my coworkers.

LOL! No, I'm going to get some tires put on that'll hold air, then trailer it to Florida and have Ed get it running for me. Then we're going to put on our bib overalls and drive it to the fanciest restaurant that Ed knows of, park right up in front, get out and swat all the mice off each other, then have some prime rib and wash it down with Crown Royal Apple. After dessert, we'll go get tetanus and rabies shots. I see no problems with this plan! I Mean, it probably ran 50 years ago when it was parked so it couldn't possibly need more than fresh gas and file the points, right? Seriously now, it got bid up $2,000.00 over night so with 4 days to go, I feel quite confident it won't end up in my possession!

7:00pm EST next Thursday the 8th. I'm going to go look at the car in person next Monday or Tuesday evening after work and no, I'm definitely not a player to buy it..........unless it goes for $2,500 or less and then yes, it might end up at my place since I'm a 20 minute drive from the auction house. I'll post a photo of me sitting on the running board, not sitting in it........

I'm banking on an emotional purchase, not necessarily one that makes dollars and cents. There are those that may step up just to be able to say, "I own a 1933 Packard V-12". It would make a pretty cool display, for someone that has the real estate, just the way it sits. We'll know five days from now.

Looks like a pretty solid truck in a pretty desirable body style. I'd say around $5,000.00.

The Packard is up to a whopping $202 with five days to go. Anybody want to venture any guesses as to how much it'll sell for? I say $8,500.00.

So, if it'd cost way too much to even consider a restoration and wouldn't interest a Packard collector even as a parts car, what could the car's fate be? The world's only Packard club sedan rat rod? Body looks pretty solid, just scuff off the loose stuff and clear-coat it. Small block Chevy, auto trans, burlap interior.................. 30 years ago, collectors would've been clamoring to restore this car. Not today. It'll be interesting to see what it brings.

When I saw the photos of the interior, I wondered how many rodents have lived and died in that Packard over the years and how many are still in it!! @trimacar c'mon, this would look good in your garage, right where the PA sits. 😜