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And here is what I hope to be my future Wagon Hot Rod. I'm still working on the 62 Convert and now have a 69 Grand Prix I need to flip. So this one will probably wait till next year.
And here's the spilled milk I've been cryin about for the last couple of years. Again, I know, not the right year, but, hey ! ! ! ! All Stude Wagons are soooo cool, I can't resist showin em off. This one I sold, then have missed it more than any other car I've ever sold. I'm still a bit weepy every time I look at the pix. You can see why, right???
That 57 looks waaay kooool. I dig the paint and the entire presentation. I've been thinking of going Ch*vy power on my 56 also, just to make it more marketable to the masses. They're still a bit skeered of original Stude power. How did the sale of your 57 go?? Did you get a good return on it?? (I'm not fishing for a number, just wondering if the return was worth the effort)
Here is a REALLY nice one for ya:
This Connie was built right here a mile and half from my place, by Larry's Street Rods in Ferndale, WA
Way better than a stock '55!
Sorry about the requestor's '56 to '58 thing, but where or when have you ever seen a Hot Rod '56 Wagon?
Those few '57 & '58's are about all I have ever seen, there really are not that many.
How did the sale of your 57 go?? Did you get a good return on it?? (I'm not fishing for a number, just wondering if the return was worth the effort)
Mine was a '58.
I came out OK on the deal. Actually, my only disappointment was that I didn't get to play with it longer before it sold.
As it happened, a dealer friend of mine made me a reasonable offer, so I "wholesaled" to him. That saved me from painting it, and spending too much on it. And it elimated dealing with eBay, tire kickers, and malcontents.
He sold it in about a week, and it showed up on Craigslist about a month later. It's no longer there, so I assume it sold again.
Too bad a forum member didn't inquire, they could have made a good deal.
I don't know what my friend got for the car, or what it sold for on Craig'slist, but I 'spect it had to be approaching the 10K mark. For what it was, all that had been done to it, that would be a fair price if a fellow wanted to keep it and love it as his very own.
Love the look, but the one deal breaker for me on hotrod wagons is interior resonance/road noise. It took more work with sound deadening material to make it habitable than any other car/truck I've ever built. A local Stude guy built a Lark 2-door wagon with a stock Chevy V6, so it wasn't engine noise, but he just couldn't stand the interior noise and sold it.
Not without severely chopping the car up.....To accomplish?????????????
Why would you have to severely chop the car up for a Packard engine? If these cars will accept a big block Chrysler or Chevy or even a 50's Hemi, what makes a Packard so much bigger? I would think sedans and wagons would have a larger engine compartment than a C/K...
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