...I'm afraid there are times when you have to consider letting them go to provide parts for more solid cars.
Seen Friday, March 29, in Putnamville IN along U.S. 40:
Sadly, we probably know the function of the strap from door handle to door handle across and through the car :
Finally, the big question: Could it possibly have a PALMA IN PARIS oval on the deck lid? This isn't all that far from Paris IL, our destination for some Good Friday R&R, and Dad did sell two of these. But, alas, no oval or remnants of same :
The car is a 1955 Packard Clipper Super Hardtop, known as a Panama. The lowest-priced Clipper DeLuxe series and the middle-priced Clipper Super series like this one, had conventional suspension (coil springs front, leaf rear) standard equipment.
The revolutionary Torsion-Level suspension was standard equipment on the highest-line Clipper Custom series, and on all "Senior" Packards; Patrician Sedan, 400 Hardtop, and Carribean convertible. In 1955, Torsion-Level Suspension was a $150 option on Clipper DeLuxes and Clipper Supers, and many Supers got it.
This wasn't one of them, though; I was surprised to peer underneath it and see conventional coil springs up front. BP
Seen Friday, March 29, in Putnamville IN along U.S. 40:
Sadly, we probably know the function of the strap from door handle to door handle across and through the car :
Finally, the big question: Could it possibly have a PALMA IN PARIS oval on the deck lid? This isn't all that far from Paris IL, our destination for some Good Friday R&R, and Dad did sell two of these. But, alas, no oval or remnants of same :
The car is a 1955 Packard Clipper Super Hardtop, known as a Panama. The lowest-priced Clipper DeLuxe series and the middle-priced Clipper Super series like this one, had conventional suspension (coil springs front, leaf rear) standard equipment.
The revolutionary Torsion-Level suspension was standard equipment on the highest-line Clipper Custom series, and on all "Senior" Packards; Patrician Sedan, 400 Hardtop, and Carribean convertible. In 1955, Torsion-Level Suspension was a $150 option on Clipper DeLuxes and Clipper Supers, and many Supers got it.
This wasn't one of them, though; I was surprised to peer underneath it and see conventional coil springs up front. BP
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