1950 Packard $1600

Not mine etc.

http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/cto/3288189604.html

I love that grill. Fabulous looking car at a reasonable price....I need to stop looking at this stuff.

that is awesome...being that it is a straight 8 would there be enough room for 2 LSx?

I'd love to build a speedster hotrod with a straight eight

Woody wrote: I'd love to build a speedster hotrod with a straight eight

If I was going to separate the engine from the body - and I probably would not because i think packards are cool - I would put it in a replica of this:

My Dad drove a wooden wheeled Packard Limo as a taxi to put himself thought North Eastern enginering school. He tells me it had a 12 cyl and he would park in the lake( boat ramp) overnight to swell the spokes.

JoeyM wrote:

Woody wrote: I'd love to build a speedster hotrod with a straight eight

If I was going to separate the engine from the body - and I probably would not because i think packards are cool - I would put it in a replica of this:

Yup. That's about right.

I wonder how hard it would be to fab up a pair of friction shocks like that.

wow.

My Dad talked me out of getting a beat one of these for my first car. It was two tone orage over brown and was so cool.

Many years later I was talking with my dads dad he told me about a 38 I think. that he bought after he got home from the war. He and his brother rebuilt the motor and shaved the head and that it was by far the fastest car he had driven.

Good times.

Saw a red resto-modded convertible cross the blocks this weekend at Barrett Jackson. It looked great but the seller put an LT1 in place of the straight 8.