Packard Motor Home

[JimC]

Finally, an old car where the roof hasn't been chopped down to leave a 3" high windshield, and all anyone does is gripe gripe gripe

This car would bring balance to the force at a car show. It makes up for about 70 chop tops.

And I still like it. It's unique.

[StudeDave57]

Here's a better one for $25K:

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/...tml?refer=news

I like that one much better!!!

There's a Class 'C' of about the same vintage at a yard along Interstate 5 down near Vader, WA.
I'll have to see if I can find a link to it.
It is supposed to have an Isuzu diesel installed under it's hood.





StudeDave '57

[StudeDave57]

SECOND thread on this creepy car

http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.c...873#post781873

Actually- the thread in Huggers was started first.
Therefore this thread is second.

Creepy indeed.
I'd drop a Packard engine into it in a heartbeat.
Oh, wait...




StudeDave '57

[Packard8]

Looks like a hearse....

Looks like maybe a 160 Packard chassis Henney commercial hearse with the top hat grafted on.

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/h/henney/henney.htm

I suspect the seller will be waiting a loooong time for the first bid @ $25K.

[handworn]

Wow, the Don King of Packards.

I'd rather have this one:

http://www.tincantourists.com/classi...3#.UkDpAUD8Luo

[Bob Andrews]

Here's a better one for $25K:

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/...tml?refer=news

[STUDEMAC]

WOW i would love to see this thing fixed up. hate to be the one footing the bill for this rare dog.

[studeclunker]

LOL, love it! Yeah Witt, it does look a bit like a tatty old man wearing a beat-up old top hat. The vehicle also looks like something the Addams family or the Munsters would be touring around in. Yeah, a nice late-Packard V8 with an ultramatic would do this old beauty up nicely. LOL, at twenty-five large, this old thing is likely to reside where it is for quite some time. Who knows what the 'bay might bring though?

[JRoberts]

$100,000 would be on the low end I would think. Once again I seem to have lost my winning lottery ticket....now where did it go.....????

[Dan White]

Hey could we stick a hopped (bored and stroked) up Packard V8 in there with dual quads and Ultramatic?

[PackardV8]

Wouldn't that be a cool ride to an IM? However, at the $25,000 starting price, it may sit there another seventy-eight years. My estimate for a restoration, at least another $100,000.

jack vines

[Nox]

Speaking (or more likely: writing) about Cadillac, there was a -53 motor-home for sale in Sweden this summer, some "factory"-made thing.
Didn't really need it thou...

[Bordeaux Daytona]

Neat!
I'm wondering what that Cadillac finned sports car in the background is.

[wittsend]

If ever there was a vehicle that looked like it was wearing a top hat... .

[DEEPNHOCK]

That is awesome!
Jeff

OK not totally Studebaker but related second cousin once removed:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Rare-...#ht_500wt_1182