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So you have heard of 1920's and early 1930's CCCA cars having undercarriages color keyed to match the exteriors - the 1932 Twin Six is one of those cars and what you are looking at is what you find when willing to get the dirtiest you may ever get in your life - the frame has been well oiled to protect the underside. There are only a handful of cars that can come close to this car in originality and condition.
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So what do you use when taken off or re-installing wheels ? Of course, you use a jack that is as old as the car. Check out its size. We may just start calling it a crocodile. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE HAVE TWO (2) SUCH JACKS and the other was camping out under thwe 1939 Lilly Pond Packard 120 Rollson Town Car while Frank Crawford and Mike Mereness (my dad) were adjusting valves.
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Wednesday, May 27th: Lock rims picked up the Monday prior to Memorial Day and they came out rather nice. Wheels were picked up from the painter the Thursday before Memorial Day. Todd the owner of RIMWORKS in Centerville did a very good job. Todd sandblasted and painted, but also had to repair some curb damage, misc scrapes, and one chunked out section of rim that was on the driver's side rear wheel (someone had apparently run it into a curb and not only damaged rim, but also caused damage to the threads on the brake drum (a quick call to Ted Davis in OK revealed thread was 9/16 x 18 (friend Glenn Grismere happened to have a tap) and all holes were rethreaded except one that was a hopeless and all bolts were basically hopeless as well so replacements were sourced.
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Crisis possibly adverted on Memorial Day: Roughly 12 hours to actually clean out oil pan (with a hammer and a chissel) and pick-up screen - it was TOTALLY CLOGGED (plus, it took 1/2 hour to get pan dropped and 40 minutes to reinstall. Sorry, did not have camera, but take it as a lesson - ENGINE WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IF I HAD STARTED IT.
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Who has made: 1954 Packard Caribbean turquoise/green Leather ? Thanks, jmereness@yahoo.com
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Who has made: 1954 Packard Caribbean turquoise/green Leather ? Thanks, jmereness@yahoo.com
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No, not a Lumber Jack or Paul Bunyan, but a rather surprised (did not see my camera coming) James from Grismere Tire in Downtown Dayton. He was just coming back from a truck roadside repair when I called and begged for help. Problem was the tires were 8 ply truck and could have stood on their owwn without air - HAAAAAAAAARRRRD as a Rock. The bead on each tire excepting the one original Firestone spare was almost 1 1/2 inches thick each (not much room when you also have an area on a 4 1/2 inch rim that has a metal valve stem through it. James had all the proper tools and basically resorted to brute force. He spent nearly 3 hours to demount 6 tires.
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The whole engine is pretty impressive. I started cleaning on it and was amazed at the amount of chrome and nickle trim on it and on the firewall. I also started cleaning underneath the car and it is perhaps nicer paint than on the topside (someone coated whole car with oil underneath, but what a filthy dirty mess to get to the paint).
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Yes, I understand they are rare though kind of stuck as the automatic choke parts I need are unique to 33 and 34 Packard. I do not need a good carb (the one on the car is very nice) and the parts do not need to be platable - just functional as car gets very little use (even though the car is perhaps the finest surviving unrestored example of a 33). Even the most derelict of carbs should have the parts required in decent enough condition. JMM
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Hello, Ran into a small problem with the 1932 Twin Six in that the left rear brake drum had 7 of the 8 bolts crossthreaded when I took off wheels for the first time since at least the 1950's. Damage looks more to the bolts than to the drum. Need to retap drum and forgot to bring back a bolt to figure out thread size to order a tap. Does anyone know the thread size off hand ? JMM
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Still striking out on finding the parts. Someone should have a parts carb for this it is not a totally uncommon carb. considering the volume of 33 and 34 Packards built.
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Tom, Call Jimmy Chips at the AutoColorLibrary at 859-909-2150. We spoke today about making 1932 Packard Aztec Olivine Brown light. Also, I have the water pump pulley - actually a couple of them. Have not had much of a voice (welcome to spring weather) over past few days so have not called you. JMM
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Also, The Carb kit I used to rebuild was super sweet - nicest that I have ever purchased from anyone and very reasonable priced - it came from http://www.daytonaparts.com/
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Thanks, Looks like if I had part A4 I could make the rest fairly easily. Right next this car is a 34 Standard Eight with the correct parts (but I hate to mess up the settings to take part off - it is a super nice running car) but in eyeshot are a dozen other cars that also need a this or a that, so was hoping to find the part verses make it. I did try the The Carb Shop and he was helpful but said "if he had a parts carb he would have rebuilt it and sold it eons ago to fund his retirement." Pictures are a big help. What first caught my eye was the return sping on the accelorator (I will adapt up something).
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Does anyone have the parts that connect to the choke rod and drop down to the throttle linkage ? The purpose of the parts is to allow an "unloading" of the carb if needed during warm up. This is a Stromberg EE-2 / EE-22. I have choke rod and also bracket for Automatic Choke. You may e-mail at jmereness@yahoo.com