keiser31 Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Absolutely beautiful work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 Received my headlight buckets back from the platter last week.Here are some before and after shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restorer32 Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Nice! Mind telling us who did the plating and price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted April 28, 2010 Author Share Posted April 28, 2010 The place that did the work wasD&D Classic Bright WorksPiqua, OhioCost was $2400 for the headlamps, tail light bezel, and two wheel hub covers.I received a referral from a few people here and from Packard Information.com stating that he does some outstanding work which he did but now my pockets are empty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted May 30, 2010 Author Share Posted May 30, 2010 Spent most the day trying to get old Bessie fired-up and here you go,<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allownetworking="all" wmode="transparent" src="http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid153.photobucket.com/albums/s210/packin31/Engine_Fired-up_05_29_2010.flv" height="361" width="600"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbirdman Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Sound good. I'm about a week a few months later than I thought from getting my engine installed from the rebuild. Evrything was gone through so hopefully no surprises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 The oil pan had a few crack in it so the shop that did the metal work for me sent it off to welder that specializes in welding aluminum. I pickup the oil pan earlier this week. Ground down the welds got it all painted and pretty and reinstalled.Fired her up the following day and took her out of her hibernation shed for a few mile drive.Today was clean out garage day. Which was way over due. So I fired up old Bessie and parked her outside. Once I completed my task of cleaning and straighten out the garage I took Old Bessie with my co-pilot Harley out for a little longer driver (roughly 20 miles) and out on some of the so called major roads. Harley loved the wind in your face ride since I don't have the windshield install yet (Ahh free ac )Attach are a few pictures of her out in the Sun finally. Not the best but at least you can see what it looks like outside in natural lighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 I love the first photo, "Kilroy was here!" (For those of you old enough to recognize that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Congrats on a super paint job, Tom!! You must be excited with all that hard work coming together. Love the wheels and WWW tires (sorry West!) on this car - they really work well together and set the car off nicely. YOu must be pretty motivated at this point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexRiv_63 Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Tom,I've followed your story for awhile, great to see that car running and driving and it looks gorgeous. Keep at it, you are almost there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted July 13, 2010 Author Share Posted July 13, 2010 Steve and Don,Thank you very much for the compliments.Without this forum and some painting forums I don't think I would be where I am at as of today.So does the car look cool or what without them big fenders hanging off of it :cool:They are the next thing on my agenda to hopefully get painted this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) Here are some photos of the roof material that my younger brother and I install late last summer From My other blog "With the help of my younger bother last week. We got the windshield installed. We also install the fabric/vinyl roof material. It was not as hard to install as one would think. I think the installation went a little easier is because I took out the chicken wire for support of the material and replaced it with a 1/8" thick piece of birch plywood. I glued and screwed the wood to the bows and on the edges I used some top of the line black urethane caulk. Before installing the material I had this bright idea why not take some extra steps and figure out how can I seal up the seams and all the extra holes in the roof gutter from the previous roof material. While walking around the home store I glanced over to the gutter isle and a bell went off in my head ahh here we go a 4" x 10' roll of gutter/chimney repair/seal stuff. It worked like a charm. I wish I would of taken pictures of all my steps for you to all see but I did not. Was just so up on getting the material installed it slipped my mind." The installation was done after I had painted the car. We made sure to tape off the work area so not to damage the paint. More can be seen here http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s2 ... ackard%20Top%20Installed/ Edited January 28, 2022 by Tom M (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbirdman Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Looks like you did an excellent job. Almost on the road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Looks like you did an excellent job. Almost on the road?Yes I have put 350 miles on her since getting her back out of a long hibernation. Was hoping to get the rear fender painted last summer but they needed more work then I had originally thought. Hopefully this summer I can get them painted and then onto the front monsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted August 30, 2011 Author Share Posted August 30, 2011 Some progress this summer.Had new running boards made (first pic), powder coated and I have releasable them and installed on car.Reassemble luggage rack and installed on car.Painted, wet-sanded and buffed rear valance (cover over gas tank) and install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted October 3, 2011 Author Share Posted October 3, 2011 Yesterday I sprayed the some SPI bed liner on the underside of the fenders.Was going to brush it on but I did not like the way it was brushing. So I decided to put the 2.2 tip in the HF purple gun I use for spraying the High Build and Epoxy with and this is the results I got out of it. It turned out pretty decent I must say.After going hog wild yesterday spraying the undersides.Late today (after Bears game) I got the topside sprayed with some SPI SS Black.Will get some better pictures tomorrow with some natural light on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 A few updates.Last few weeks I have been stripping wooden spokes on the rims and staining them as I go. Will take some pictures soon and post them.Today I received the Trunk Rack Lock Knobs from the machinist that my brother works with.The one on the left are the new ones. What he did was tapped the center and made a screw that can be threaded in to it to hold down the locking part.The last picture is from Kanter as you can see the difference on the assembly. One would need to peen over the end thin rod to hold the locking part in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted June 20, 2012 Author Share Posted June 20, 2012 Some progress on the rims. Have then stained and first cost of Satin Spar Urethane. In a day or two I will lightly sand them with 220 and then put another coat of Spar Urethane but that coat will be gloss.Once I have the wood portion finished I will tape them off so I could sand the metal portion, epoxy prime, a few coats of SPI Single Stage Black and they should be ready for tires which I still need to order.First two picture are without flash last one is with flash.Attach file:<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"> RIMS_COMPRESSED.jpg <small>(146.84 KB)</small> RIMS_COMPRESSED_1.jpg <small>(160.62 KB)</small> RIMS_COMPRESSED_2.jpg <small>(149.90 KB)</small> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 Some more progress on the rims. We did our traditional fourth of July at Indiana home. Got back home on Thursday morning so I spent most of the after noon, evening and Friday prepping the rims for epoxy primer and SPI SS Black.Got up early on Saturday did 4 rims and on Sunday did 2 rims. Each rim I sprayed two coats of epoxy primer let it setup for about four hours then sprayed 3 coats of the black.Last week I order tires from Universal and I received them on Tuesday two days earlier then I expected them to arrive. So now that I have the tires, rims all painted they are almost ready to go. I just need to get the snap rings off to the platter and get them platted and then they will be ready for the new skins.Attach file: web4101.JPG <small>(75.49 KB)</small> web4102.jpg <small>(77.35 KB)</small> web4103.jpg <small>(72.97 KB)</small> web4104.jpg <small>(82.87 KB)</small> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbirdman Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Tom,You should had painted the rims after you installed the snap rings:o One trick I used as not to mar the painted rims is to put a few layers of duct tape lightly on the edge of the metal rims before installing the lock rings. The should protect the paint though you still may end up having to tough up the paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 Ken,I was wondering to myself on how to protect the edges since them snap rings were a beast to get off. Thanks for the tips.Thought about painting after tire were installed but that would of been a whole lot of taping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted August 6, 2012 Author Share Posted August 6, 2012 Tires mounted and took old Bessie out for a spin today. It was a beautiful day for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfee Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Tom, great job. The maroon/black color combo with the wood wheels is perfect. Can't wait until mine is that far along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Gorgeous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 A true example of the dying art of a hobbyist performing a top shelf restoration at home, Tom. Very, very nice work and great colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted August 13, 2012 Author Share Posted August 13, 2012 Thanks all for the nice compliments, support and encouragement it sure really helps.It has been a long road, we are getting close to being complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 Hi All,Been sometime since I have posted. I have finally dropped my 31 883 468 Coupe off at the upholsterer to have the interior finally done. The trim man had asked me if I knew how the Passenger Seat-back was fasten.Does anyone here know if it was fasten to the rear wood structure and if so how was it done or does it just set in place so it can be removable?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom M Posted April 29, 2015 Author Share Posted April 29, 2015 Here are some pictures of Old Bessie 1931 Packard April 2015She is all painted now; interior completed but as you know there is always something to do to these old gals .Have a great day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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