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johnoder

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Jul 16, 2004
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Houston, TX USA
About 15 years ago when I owned the 30 Packard, I made these spring shackle bolts (fancy, huh?) on my old P&W lathe and B&S grinder. Material was 4142 heat treated. Photographed with the Packard radiator shell as a backdrop.
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More Packard pics here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/johnoder/30Packard/03.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/johnoder/30Packard/02.jpg

John
 
It was only the lowliest one they made that year, called the Standard Eight, 126" WB (19" shorter than the bigger cars) and only cost five times as much as a Ford when new, instead of ten or twelve times as much. The shackle bolts are drilled for pressure oil from the Bijur chassis lubricator. Instead of having a el cheapo thermostat in the water, it had a thermostat that opened and closed those radiator shutters! Damndest thing you ever saw (and heard - it squeaked a little - like someone slowly opening a screen door!)

John
 
Thanks for favorable comments men. It was a lot of fun - not restored, so you could treat it like a regular car, which it thought it was, even with all the little plastic fantastic cars zipping around it ;) .
 








 
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