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Work junk, and junk... at work. By 'junk.



OK now find the SBC in this one...

just kidding. Its under that 37 Packard hood. Man I dig that car! Ole boy keeps them hubcaps on with bungees lol. I might, too. Believe it or not, this car hasn't had any appearance work (from us) but awhile back we lopped the frame off at the cowl, made a new front part with 50's Ford truck style suspension and rack-n-pinion, grafted it onto the existing X-member type ladder frame (stock) and dropped a Goodwrench 350 and auto trans in it. Parade car but also putt-putts around on many days. The owner is as cool as the car. You don't even get to that age by being stupid! He wanted to just be able to drive it dependably but everything we took off was minty.





Wasn't that refreshing? Ah. Now... cover your mouth...



Yeaaaah...naw. Buff work or something, ick.

The '50 is coming along. I helped stab the windshield today. It gets a wood bed floor, those are never very fun.



Work on the DoggBird continues even in it's absence... heres a panel that closes the previously open area atop the cowl where the wiper motor is. Fully fabbed from steel and shown here in the bodyfiller stage.



The hood has had most of its love already, but theres our expanded scoop hole.



Heres the "shaker". You can kinda see how it was cut into four sections and stretched. Its a fiberglass reproduction part. We had to half-stuff an LS7 intake into it and also make this functional. You still haven't seen the monster air intake duct that makes it work. Its out being blasted. Man o man that HF DA has some miles on it!







I spent the day finishing the rough fab on that, and taking it through the next steps of refining shape, eyeballing the opening, etc. Did a little more glass work and what not, its almost ready to prime but a small crack popped up at a flimsy spot right at the end of the day. I wanted off this week but dammit I reckon I'll have to quit to get a vacation. Another summer gone with no playtime kinda urinates my Cheerios. Gotta count my blessings again.
 
More parts made it to the grey stage. That scoop was a bit of an adventure since its so thin. I ended up spending a couple days to take it this far. There will be a screen glued in the opening after paint, so I had to fuss over the backside there to create a suitable flange for that. Except for the XL size, it looks normal and thats the idea. Taking a couple days off (instead of the week I've been dying for) so it'll be next week before I tackle whatever comes at me next.







 


ive seen t/a's with that hood before, and the shaker added. im sure its not factory, but looked cool. and if its a clone with this much done to it, why not make the hood really cool. just me two cents if it was mine lol yeah i wish
 
idrivejunk said:
I'm not up to snuff on my Packards lol. It has a great look though. Whats the difference? Somewhere I may have a few pics of that build from when it happened.
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its all about the engine size the 115 is the 6 banger and the 120 is 8 cylinder. believe it or not im not that good with packards myself i have to ask my dad lol thank god he loves his old cars lol
 
here is a 120 it has a longer hood

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I think it was a plain one, just the sixer. Heres the only pic I could find, thinking this is the Packard getting the frame done...

 


ScottyDoggs said:
ive seen t/a's with that hood before, and the shaker added. im sure its not factory, but looked cool. and if its a clone with this much done to it, why not make the hood really cool. just me two cents if it was mine lol yeah i wish
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We'll put that two cents toward your bill! Personally I would laugh and point at a shaker sticking through a Formula hood, its too much for my taste. But I love Pontiacs and thats probably why. This build has been intended to have a bird on the hood from the get-go and the Formula scoops would get in the way of that. I don't know if it will have lettering on the scoop but the rear spoiler will.
 
Couple TA/GP hinge pics I forgot- they were sandblasted and epoxy primed.

first one:



other side:



Aha! Found a snap of the rough-fabbed air intake setup. Its bizarre, four pieces including scoop. Filter is to lay flat inside scoop. Since this pic its been sandblasted and epoxy primed so appearance work can begin. I have only messed with the scoop so far.

 
Canfullagasandahandfulofmatches? I was thinking L67 swap lol. Wonder how long until 1961 models have to pass a sniff test here. Maybe never.
 


The 41 in ink woohoo! Pic because it really happened. December 2015 Classic Trucks, on shelves now. Man, those fenders nearly slew me last year. This makes two in mags. It feels like you're ten again for a few minutes as you read an article on something you were part of. At least for me it do, but I grew up on car mags. Theres a couple more pages to this one, and its just the print version of the online article I posted awhile back:



 
Congrats man. I bet you feel pretty accomplished to see it printed like that. I know if something I built or worked on was in a magazine I'd be a cloud 9 for a few days, and everyone I knew or bumped into would know about it, lol. I'd probably do something along these lines, plus I haven't posted a GIF in awhile:
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Conan thats a funny lookin individual lol.

I truly savored the article and try like hell to keep the excitement internal. Thanks Booba.

Had the pleasure also of being the one to throw that article down unexpectedly in front of the guy who did the mechanical end of it. Muted smirk and back to work. Mental paycheck.
 
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