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Just a dumb idea- If you have an older drop-in canister, pre-spin on oil filter car used as a daily driver it is easy to get plumbing for a modern spin-on. It by-passes/replaces it but could be easily replaced if you have to "show" the car for originality. I haven't looked for a by-pass in ages but they must still be obtainable seeing that there are so many high performance and racing uses where moving the oil filter location is necessary.
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Check out this Packard.. http://www.forbes.com/2004/02/03/cx_dl_0203vow2.html
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Seeing your car reminded me of a friend's 55. In about 1967 my friend's Dad got him his 1st car. It belonged to some friend of his and had been sitting for many years for unknown reasons. It was that puke green and white and was rusted in the lower quadrants quite badly. No power accessories and just the auto trans and radio as options, I quess.
They got the thing running and my friend began driving it, and "running" other cars at stoplight drags. One particular stretch of road was "about" a 1/4 mile from a light to a certain point and I was riding shotgun with my pal and 2 other guys aboard as he ran a shiny new Bonneville 389. No he didn't win. But he lost by barely half a car length. The grabber is the Pontiac guy couldn't believe my friend's car had a tiny one barrel carb on the hemi! Ah, what that car could have done properly equipped and tuned.
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And BOY do I wish I still had by 57 Olds 98!!!
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The site works fine for me as I have MSN passport for groups already. There are pics of Packards from 1899-1958. MSN Groups is where turbopackman has his special interest site. It's the easiest and free way to share interests and photos- no need to have your own website. If you go to the MSN main you can sign up. It's apinless, free and doesn't generate more spam.
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It seems the other owner did not reverse the ammeter leads if you say it is reading backwards, ie., shows negative when generator is charging. So you will not have to change them if you go back to positive ground.
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I don't know why but I can visualize the plate on a step up from something in like 1907. Like the carry over from carriages that the first cars had where you stepped up to the seat...
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The tag picture was found at the packardclub.org site. On the back the tags had the dealer name (see attachment) like this one from Los Angeles. My Dad sold Packards from about 49-52 or 53 and I had one of these long ago. When I saw the image at packard.org I had a flashback and figured I'd try to see if there are any around since I just bought my car. Maybe it is older than around 1950, I dunno.
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And if it is important to you to use GM parts you should be able to drop in the HEI distributor with coil in cap fully self contained. I did that in an older Camaro and no worries. I had aftermarket pointless stuff in it before and 2 such systems ultimatly broke. With the HEI it's off the shelf GM parts that you can find easily.
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In the average US market it would go for probably $11-12000 with the original 327 engine. Since you have re-engined that figure would be lower, but the fact that you are in a market where the car is RARE there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to get $15000. That's my guess.
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Where are they like the Palmdale area? With the pine trees around could be the mountains.
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I saw that thing on Ebay. Beauty! My thought on Packard woes is not so much styling but mechanical. Here is a company that build the Packard-Merling V-12 that was chock full of innovative tech stuff that could have directly translated to the auto world of post WW 2. How cool it would have been to see a mini Merlin V-12 in a car!!!
They also simply got bad marketing feedback as to what Americans would or wouldn't buy after the war so they ran scared and abandoned the high end luxury market. Oops!!
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I've found the fine steel wool to work on cases that were resistant to other chemicals somewhat but that weren't deeply pitted either.
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Toxicity shouldn't be a factor unless it leaks and then it's up there with gasoline, transmission fluid, power steerting fluid, brake fluid and A/C compressor lubricant which are toxic and will probably stay that way.
I'm a cat guy these days and I don't think cats are as curious as dogs in the respect of licking any and all liquid they come across. Cats would smell it 1st and shy away. The last dog I had though would have probably tasted 1st and sniffed later! I always see dogs as feeling bored and more likely to do that. And dogs DO drink out of toilets!
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If you're going that far without swapping engines definitely get an aftermarket aluminum intake manifold which will give you torque at the low and mid-range and you will not have to mess with rowing through gears. It will be the biggest "feel" of modification. Weight saving alone will help.
If it is important as you said to keep the 283 and carb, you could do the manifold and cam and cc the heads, port and polish. If you put later model fuelie heads with larger valves you could paint them and slip them on. It's most all internal so it will not show. Paint your aftermarket manifold to match the 283 block and it should pass as original to all be the sharpest eye.
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Darnit Gunny you should be leading the squad on this one. At our age I'd consider a dolly for about 500 miles on California- Arizona roads in good weather but not the hassle of cross country. Too dangerous due to unknown roads, conditions, grades and elevations plus weather factors.
For what all this is going to cost you- rent/buy trailer, gas, lodging, food you might look at 18 wheeeled transport. If you come out at $1000-1200 each way-your car going, his car coming- you'll probably spend less $$ in the long run. Be safe and scan the web for several transport outfits, and Semper Fi!
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All I can say is I don't believe in lifetime anything either. It's relative as to what a "lifetime" is and who is calling it such. Auto transmissions are another area that bandy about the same phrase. Take any car and drain it at 50,000 and look at the crapola in it. Then imagine a manufacturer stating it is good to go 100,000 miles.
Preventive maintainence is just that- to prevent bad stuff that may or may not happen. Why gamble with you investment. People just don't want to be bothered to even vacuum the damned carpets anymore much less have a tranny or radiator serviced.
Overall it reminds me of the old TV commercial of the tow truck driver/mechanic "you can pay me now or you can pay me later," as he attaches the dead car. Heck, why would anyone want to spend $100 at 50k miles to drain the trans and change the filter when they can gamble on nothing happening, but at the 93,000 mile mark it may cost $1200 for a new tranny?
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The Cormorant is the bird that Japanese fishermen used to use to catch fish. They put a collar on the neck so the bird could not swallow big fish. They were trained to catch and return to the boat obviously and the fisherman would stick his hand in and pull out the fish. The bird could swallow smaller fish so he wasn't negatively reinforced that catching fish was a bad thing.
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I had a 57 Olds 98 that had the Wonderbar radio to seek to the next channel too but the switch was rather close to the dimmer switch and of the same size. Perhaps that little switch in the pic is connected to the headlights to be used as a newer car's flash function with the blinker stalk. If it isn't that would be a good idea....
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Fine looking ride! Hate to see her wet. When will it be decent enough weather to get her out again, March-April? Gee we're having rain in So. Cal. now for like one day and I hate it. My Missouri memories of long ago with snow and ice are bad ones indeed.
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Diz is pretty much on the mark with the limitations you have. You COULD yank the 283 and powerglide and put them in a corner of your garage and buy a 350ci crate motor and a TH 350 or 400 tranny that will all bolt right up. A friend of mine inherited a nice 57 and did exactly that.
You still have original components safely stored but can have some fun with horsepower now. 15 years from now if you want to move on the new buyer can drool about the original 283 and you'll get more mulah!
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I'm not even a big Mopar fan but would go for any from that era. I mean as a guy who grew up with the 50s cars and look back now...gee a 57 is a 57, man. Primo desireable car year.
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A dolly may be ok but for my 2¢ I'd say I'd rather rent a trailer for that kind of marathon distance run. You're hooking up something to the hitch ball anyway so it may as well be as safe as can be. But that's just me.
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Pocket rockets can be fun for a limited time but not to drive on a dialy basis for me any more. I did my fun time with my B-18 4-cyl in my Volvo 122S. I enjoyed it up to 348,000 miles and moved on. Had a little company car with the then hi-tch Olds Quad 4 in it in the 1989 that could be thrashed by medium-sized V-8s which were unimpressed by the gee whiz cams and valves dinosours that they were with pushrods and such.
Today when I ride in someones V-6 even I sense and hear the wind-up on moderate acceleration that is quite absent in a V-8. I hate that whiny sound anything but 8 cylinders make. But that's just me an Dizzy, I guess.
And OlJalopy, I'm with you on your recollections and feelings. I recently drove my 96 El Dorado Touring Coupe to Las Vegas from L.A. (about a 600 mile round trip) with 5 aboard and a full trunk at the fastest speed I could all things permitting. That was 80-90MPH much of the time. I got just 21 MPG. A steady 70 would give 25MPG. The mid-sized V-8 certainly didn't protest- 29MPH per 1,000RPM once in overdrive. It's the best of both worlds- a perfectly sized V-8 279ci with all the modern hi-tech mech-goodies. The suspension is as stiff when need be as my 1973 Z-28's yet silky smooth most of the time. I quit gymkahana runs with my old TR-3 years ago when I was a kid so I have adequate handling but a go cart will out turn anything, so that's a moot point.
I am not buying anything foreign. Like OlJalopy, I know that buying a foreign car assembled in the US is a cop out. All the research, development, design and tooling was done across the water. Putting the things together is the cheapest part. All the real money on foreign cars assembled in the uS goes to the home country. What do I look like a government foreign subsidy lobbyist?
So with my Northstar V-8 on fairly equal terms with any average 4s and V-6s technology-wise when one of these twerps steps out already going 60MPH and buzzes up to 85 I can effortly cruise past looking bored listening to Ernest Tubbs on the stereo while his mill is screaming like a banshee. Cubic inches does that.
I've spent all the time I care to in economy cars in my distant past and now I will drive what I wish to drive. It's my money and I spend it as I like. It would be sad indeed if the day came when nobody offered a V-8. Thankfully I'll be long gone when that happens.
And by the way, God drives a 426 hemi!
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Hahaha! Bizarre, huh? I mean THIS is a Packard
and a danged nice looking one. You see how the main Packard design was not screwed with yet certain points enhanced proving they were good to begin with.
The best thing all of us can do is to create a separate email account in the service provider where if you visit a website and leave info, any spam and BS mail goes to that account and the normal email address is not deluged with crapola. It works for me.