1955 Packard 400 weight info.

[pontiacdaveuk]

Gentlemen,

Does anyone know the approximate weight of a 1955 Packard 400, originally from California without A/C. My car is in UK and for the annual inspection (M.O.T.)a new requirement is the cars weight for records and calculation of required braking forces.

I looked through the shop manual but this info was not available as I guess the weight varied slightly with options for intended state to be sold.

Regards,

PontiacdaveUK.

[Guest Randy Berger]

I think the official weight was 4190 lbs. That said I weighed mine at the Smithton, Pa truck stop and with me in it, it weighed 5,000 even.

No cracks about my weight <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

<img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Guest imported_Speedster]

I was wondering what that Extra 500 lbs. Hidden in the Trunk, Was ? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You Can't have that many Tools. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

My '56 Clipper weight was 4265, that's with only the spare and jack in trunk and Owners Manual in Glove-box. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Guest BigKev]

Maybe it's was all the lead in the paint they used to use! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

[Guest Albert]

or the bodys in the trunk..

[Guest imported_49packard]

Check packardclub.org it has weights of different body styles

[Guest Randy Berger]

The ref page on PAC says 4290 lbs and $4190.00.

[Guest]

My reference materials state for 1955 Four-Hundred

Factory price $ 4080

Shipping weight 4250

Production total 7206

Every reference book is going to vary in information to some degree.

John F. Shireman

[R W Burgess]

"Smithton"!

You mean you got out of there without some dumb trucker running over you, or some "lot lizard" beating on your window? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Wayne

[WCraigH]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">or the bodys in the trunk.. </div></div>

or the extra oxygenated-iron (rust) on the body like my CA 1956 400. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> Of course, it's a lot lighter now that it doesn't have a front clip, interior or engine/T-U anymore thanks to the efforts of the Packard V-8 Club. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Guest imported_Speedster]

You do realize that you can Over-Do these Weight-Loss Programs, Don't you. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Some of that weight is Needed, to make it Go! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[WCraigH]

My CA 1956 400 is never going anywhere but will live on in parts contributed to other Packards. Like Eric's 56 Pat, my Panther, KevinAZ's 1955 400, maybe one of Jack Vines projects and even local car restorer-friend Dean's whatever (he has dibs on any sheetmetal not otherwise dibbed). If a car is "going out", then IMHO, this is a better way to go than being sent to the crusher.

[Guest Randy Berger]

Wayne, I went there in the morning when all the lizards are sleeping <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> and all the truckers are getting their morning coffee. Smithton is in my back yard. It was the closest scale. Someone told me Smithton is always a little heavy. The grandfather of that operation may have been a butcher with a heavy thumb <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[R W Burgess]

Don't know about the butcher Randy. Never ate there, but had to stop there once or twice to get enough fuel to make it back East to cheaper invirions. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Wayne

[Guest imported_Speedster]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> If a car is "going out", then IMHO, this is a better way to go than being sent to the crusher. </div></div>

Sort of like 'Organ Transplants'. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Great! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[55PackardGuy]

Yeah, Craig's is on a weight-loss program. How about leaving a rolling, powered chassis and see how it handles and how fast it'll go totally "stripped" except for a lawn chair and the controls--oh, and a speedometer. (I'll bet people have tried this more than once with various makes.)

Rule of "thumb:"

For a lightweight reading, go to the scrapyard scale where they like to pay you as little as possible.

For a heavyweight, go to the trucker scales where they like to write tickets.

Just a thought...