Believe Packard was the very first mf'r to offer air conditioning. The AC cost about the same $$$ as a new Chevrolet ...
It fits here. It is a custom bodied car. Those factory customs were the part of the work a lot of custom shops. Fleetwood Bodies were near me until GM bought them and moved them. There was another shop near me that did Kaiser-Frazier factory custom work.
You two are something else. I think all of us profess to being car lovers. I guess you two really aren’t car lovers. Quit your whining and let the rest of us car people see this
Always enjoy posts like this! Knew is was some place in California, those unique back ally streets must have a lot more cars hidden away. Bob
This place ? Or dejavu ? Pic showed up on PreWarCar today. StearnsKnight for sale & a vintage blue plane.
Torch the front springs, some lowering blocks, teardrop skirts and Sombrero caps...screw the restorers...it's Leadsled time
Wow, cars airplanes, all kinds of cool stuff!!!! Blue fuselage looks like a Waco? Travel Air? More please! Lippy
The photo of the blue fuselage aircraft, isn't the same one in the early photo, the exhaust stacks are different. Plus the description of the yellow aircraft is possibly wrong as well. The one hanging is an Aeronca model K, they had a 2 cylinder engine. You can tell by the exhaust stacks. Dont be fooled by the black lightening bolt which isnt the style of piper lightening bolt. The door is aeronca and the tail is aeronca. The blue fuselage is either a Waco or possibly a travel air, but its rare to see a Hisso powered travel air, most travel airs had continental 220 radials. It appears to me that the photo provided is taken in a museum.
I see this thread got "Featured" so glad the self-anointed HAMB Police didn't shut it down, so much great stuff, thanks so much for letting us see it. Bob
Wow what treasure trove! Would love to spend an hour walking through there. With all that tooling, I take it the owner did most/all of his own work?
W O W.......thanks for sharing...what a trove !!!! Litterally everything from "A" to "Z". I love anything about Packards. Dad drove them, his last one was a 56 Carribean, then he switched to Lincoln in 1958.
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