Packard Customs

Hello, I am new here and have built many cars, in fact I build Limos for a living. Anyway I always loved the 48-50 Packards, love to see other Street Rod Packards of any year. I have looked around the forum and come up short. Heres mine to start

 

BTW, 454 Chevy, Fat Man front end, power everything. etc

 

did one, years ago before differant was cool , my friend Billy B said I made a sows ass into a silk purse , I guess I was one of the "dare to be Differant guys at least hr rag thought so back then no one wanted them my best friend at the time asked me "what in the hell are you goin to do with THAT!" well 7 mag covers and tipped the 89 nats on there ear, seems like a million years ago she was the "propack"

 

One of the coolest packards in my book is MATT MEANS from Dept of Customs in Anaheim

 

very cool!!

 

Im a packard fan, and ive got a 29 limosene body. Even worked on it yesterday, but i think the term you need, is customs, or hot rods, not street rods. (we dont do sr here.)
Yours looks good, and im hoping some nice examples pop up here. Thanks for starting this thread.
There is a few Packard owners here.

 

Great looking car, those do tend to get overlooked.

 

Packard racers

 

Heres a few from my files, not sure if the green one is a Packard or just got Packard grill.

 

Nobody did custom Packards better than Dutch Darrin!

 

And let's not forget this Doug Thompson masterpiece.

 

what a beautiful car... Doug Thompson sure has an eye.

 

"Ask the man who owns one".

 

Check this thread out. My car is a lot different than it was in that post though..

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=292861&highlight=packard+owners

 

nice thread, I also have a 41 four door I am building with a 4.6 four cam Cobra engine. will post pics when the snow stops...LOL

 

any more packards out there?

 

My father's late cousin-in-law had a '38 Packard Darrin Sunset Strip. It was taken to Darrin's shop in 41 to have the new grill installed. He bought it in 1950 and owned it until his death last year. The cowl was 3/4" cast aluminum. Impressive in person!

 

Didn't Coach Ditka have a full custom '49?

pdq67

 

Fantastic! Any photos?
Do you know what became of it?

 

Not to take hi-jack your thread, but there is a 50 packard for sale locally with a solid body that runs and drives for a pretty fair price. I was curious how reliable the straight 8 was and what parts availabilty is like for brakes, tune up parts, basic stuff like that? I think they look damn nice from the factory and with a mild lowering and decent paint it would be a cool cruiser...

 

The straight 8 is bullet proof (especially the 9 main bearing versions).

Kanter and Max Merrit Auto have just about any Packard part you could want for a '50. Fair warning though, Packard parts are expensive.

Here is one from Back to the 50's a few years ago. Gorgeous '49 convertible, but the owner (and I will never understand why people can justify ruining a car like this) pulled the straight 8 and replaced it with a SBC.
Epic Fail.

 

let's not forget oldgolds, man what a great car!!!
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=280940

 

cool thread

 

D'Agostino's "Gable" is breath-taking.



He currently has a '58 in the works.

 

Another Darrin Packard, from Rikster's site.

 

+1

 

This one sold at Barrett Jackson this year. The wife asked why I didn't buy her one of those...

 

Incredible photo, alsancle,and not another car in sight!
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