1958 packards

[58L-J8 Guy]

Anyone have contact info on Tom Null in CA, and Hugh Franks in Monterrey, CA area. Send me a private message if you have phone # or email for either. Thanks.

[StudeRich]

Nothing in my 2010 SDC Roster for either one in Calif.

[58L-J8 Guy]

Nothing in my 2010 SDC Roster for either one in Calif.

StudeRich, Thanks for looking.

[WinM1895]

Jim Swank (alpheus) in Bakersfield has a 58L-J8 (I sold it to him in 1976, there's a pic of it in my friends list) and knows of several other 58L's.

Considering where you live, Jim may know of the whereabouts of a few American Bantams.

[58L-J8 Guy]

Jim Swank (alpheus) in Bakersfield has a 58L-J8 (I sold it to him in 1976, there's a pic of it in my friends list) and knows of several other 58L's.

Considering where you live, Jim may know of the whereabouts of a few American Bantams.

WinM1895, Sorry to inform you that Jim Swank passed away about 2 weeks ago. I had talked to him a couple weeks before he passed. I have since had contact with the person who bought Jims black 58-L.
Dave

[WinM1895]

WinM1895, Sorry to inform you that Jim Swank passed away about 2 weeks ago. I had talked to him a couple weeks before he passed. I have since had contact with the person who bought Jims black 58-L.
Dave

This is SHOCKING news! I knew that Jim was ill, because he called me about a month or so ago and told me. But he didn't tell me it was a fatal disease.

He also offered to sell me the '58 back...which was also shocking as he once told me he'd never sell it.

I meet Jim in the early 1970's when he worked at the Gulf station at 11th & Pico in Santa Monica.

At that time, I was in the Ford/Packard/Studebaker NOS parts biz and a parts guy at Frost & French. Later I went back to working at Ford dealers, which Jim liked since I could sell him parts cheap for his various Ford vehicles.

Jim used to come by my house in West LA on a regular basis. One day when he came by, he saw this Packard in my driveway.

He said I know this car, it's owned by an old lady in Westwood.

Not so...Jim, I replied, I bought this car in 1971 from an ad I read in the LA Times, parked it in my grandmothers garage in Westwood because I didn't want it sitting outside.

And btw, back then besides myself and Jim, another Studebaker 'nut' lived nearby in Culver City: Jon Myer.

Jon packed up and moved to Duncan Falls OH after the 1994 Northridge earthquake decimated his parts building.

[58L-J8 Guy]

Concerning post # 1, I have located both of these individuals. Thanks, Dave