1956 Packard 400

[TX Rebel]

Scottish heather

Scottish heather is a very nice dark pinkish lavender color which looks way cool on mid-50's cars. I have considered doing mine in that color since mine is the original black, and while black looks elegant on a large car with a ton of chrome, a flashier 50's two tone or 3 tone with brighter colors would give it a better look. The engine needs to come out anyway since the PO painted it an awful orange when it was overhauled, so a color change is no big deal..

[woodysrods]

A '56 Packard Four Hundred is my favorite pre-'57 Packard. I like them better than the same year Caribbean. Make mine white over Scottish Heather, please!

The owner told me this car was white over a darker white.......what color is scottish heather??
And no it is not a push button auto...it has a column shift.
And yeas the das was a little slack to say the least. I thought it had been recovered but the owner got quite indignant when I said so, and exclaimed that nothing had ever been replaced on this car. Completely original! She was even mad that her husband had decided to have the car repainted 28 years ago. As she said it didn't need it!!
Brian

[TX Rebel]

I have loved the 55-56 Packards all of my life and have a nice original '56 400 which is fully loaded with all bells & whistles. These cars are valuable when done,and solid originals are tough to find, but the interior and chrome alone are going to put you upside down with this one at $10K going in.

[Bill Pressler]

It's not a Four-Hundred, and I've posted this link before, but I think it's so unusual for a clean color photo of a Studebaker-Packard dealer in 1956 to survive, I post it here again. As has been seen many times in the my signature line, it's the Carl E. Filer Co., but in glorious color...and the car is '56 Caribbean no. 1258 (18 from the last) which was sold to Dr. A. L. Bailey of Greenville, PA.

http://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/mo...o.php?lid=9805

[StudeDave57]

Does someone out htere on the Forum truly have a passion to have one of these?

Maybe, but not as much as these guys/gals do~

http://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/article/

Their Forum is on the left side of the page.
Sign up, and you can post it there.

[Bill Pressler]

A '56 Packard Four Hundred is my favorite pre-'57 Packard. I like them better than the same year Caribbean. Make mine white over Scottish Heather, please!

[gordr]

Aha! A 2-door hardtop, with manual crank windows. I guess it has an Ultramatic, eh? Couldn't see the shift quadrant. Or did Ultramatics all have push-button shift? Looks like it has Packard dash pad disease, too.

[woodysrods]

1956 Packard 400

Pictures
Good roads
Brian

[studegary]

Easier than you think to move cars Country to Country.
Widow is asking $10,000.. for this car and it would be worth every penny of it in a better economy. We all know how soft the Car Market is right now!
I would jump without looking at $5,000 but I think is going to take at least $7500.00.
Nice car.....easy restoration but still needs restoration!
Have some pictures from the unlit garage, but have not down loaded them yet. (must do this on my other computer in the shop)
Good Roads
Brian

I don't know how you know what I "think" about moving cars from Canada to the USA, but I do know what I have personally experienced in trying to do this and it wasn't pleasant and I have had hundreds of cars transported within the USA.
To me, it sounds like I would be putting at least $10K into an at least $7500 car to make it a $15K car.
I hope that someone else can make it work for them. They probably could if they were close to the car and did their own paint work.

[gordr]

Body style? Standard or automatic? Bells and whistles?

On a car of that nature, the little things mean a lot.

[woodysrods]

Easier than you think to move cars Country to Country.
Widow is asking $10,000.. for this car and it would be worth every penny of it in a better economy. We all know how soft the Car Market is right now!
I would jump without looking at $5,000 but I think is going to take at least $7500.00.
Nice car.....easy restoration but still needs restoration!
Have some pictures from the unlit garage, but have not down loaded them yet. (must do this on my other computer in the shop)
Good Roads
Brian

[studegary]

A Packard 400 is a very nice car, but a price less (priceless) car that needs tires and a paint job and is in another country takes it off the radar for me.

[klifton1]

Picturs, Whats the condition?
Klif

[Warren Webb]

I would jump at it too myself but the $$$ picture right now doesnt allow it.

[woodysrods]

Does someone out htere on the Forum truly have a passion to have one of these?
I can see that this beautiful model would be very collectable or desireable to someone!
Well I found one. It is a one owner with 79,000 original miles, all original. They had decided to paint the car 28 years ago for there daughters wedding, but the car was primered and then the guy doing the work dropped out of the picture.
Car has been sittng in a locked up garage for the past 28 years. Needs tires.
Please PM me if you are the one that is interested???? Love to see it go to a new home where it will be driven and ejoyed as it should be.
Good Roads
Brian
PS I would buy it in a minute but the wife says 30 + cars are already enough!
God I Love Cars!!!!