John_Mereness

1931 Packard Accessory Brochure

A Great Article: https://theoldmotor.com/?p=133530

Lexol if nice condition and Neatsfoot oil if a crispy critter.

Here is a photo of my HPOF winning 1941 Cadillac 60 Special Fleetwood. The car had 17.5K-ish miles on it when I bought it at age 14, in 1979. I sold it in about 2016, at 97.5K-ish miles. In all those years of touring it let me down three times (The first time was on an AACA tour and it ended up on the roadside [but made it home] to have a fellow [Packard V-12 Town Car owner - but he turned out ok in long haul] on the tour bitch me out that we needed to spend more time on the car prior to touring - so I rebuilt the engine, plus I ran it out of gas once and dad ran it out of gas once). Over the years of ownership I had my hand on most every mechanical part at least twice if not three or four times. Overland, Cadillac, Pierce Arrow, Talbot Lago, Oldsmobile, Dodge, X, X, and Rolls-Royce on Southern Ohio AACA Tour

A friend (Charles J. Koch, Jr.) and I restored this 1936 Cadillac V-8 Town Cabriolet (right about the time Mr. Koch and his son Jim founded Boston Beer Company/Samuel Adams) and it won nearly every award you could ever win (the carb set up was 1941 - we liked the set up better and that is what we had on hand too). As a sidenote: The car started to be restored as a "tour car" and then ended up on the show field. The body required extensive rewooding (not from wood rot, but from the mere weight of the doors, plus a year in we had to do some adjustments) - NOT FUN. And we did a little re-restoration of fenders and runningboards post getting caught in an ice storm and doing a 360 with the truck and trailer - had to drive back from Indianapolis to Cincinnati with it shifted in the trailer - ultimately to have a dozen or so people pick it up to get it out of trailer. So, my advice 1936 to 1948 (and really 1926 to 1948): It better have good wood or be the rare of rare The 1936 to 1948 cars are hard to restart when they are hot and that takes some time and patience (think metal to metal contact). Shiny trim parts are difficult to find (you will have a steep chrome plating bill) Takes time, diligence and a checkbook to parts source Lovely automobiles.

Sidenote: COOL photo !!!

You need someone to get that big knight ornament on the radiator cap ?

I love Pilot Rays too - just the right amount of extra light and a Cadillac can handle the extra GLITZ. That said - they are a super pain to restore and hopefully Dan Sommers goes back into production of them.

https://theoldmotor.com/?p=133530

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Actually, AJ's car was shown new with sidemount mirrors and he should start hunting for the proper set (nice set on it, but not the original set). And I like mirrors, other than they really do not adjust to be able to see much (ie you still have limited vision), Someone probably will have to at some point in time cast new fuel pump bodies as no good way to weld on ears.

O'oh - a 5-1 gear ration - lets go mountain climbing.

Backtrack: Not the same cars bodies (note the considerable differences). That said, there were supposedly a pair of bodies and/or grills found and the other was maroon in color. Did a bunch of parts from one get transplanted to the other (yes, I bet so) ? I have asked for years for pictures of this car as new and - no cigar. The body is what it is (and huge), the grill is what it is, the runningboards and splash aprons are said to be original too, and the front fenders I believe came off the Haynes Bodied Special Coupe (and very similar to the Brooks Stevens car), plus the engine is said to have come from the powerplant (ie, so the chassis, hood, a mega bunch of trim, and ... were a whatever done during restoration)