Good Daily driver???

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  1. markfnc

    markfnc Well-Known Member

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    markfnc, Dec 1, 2022
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    Crank windows, manual locks, no A/C, no power steering or brakes. Not even a radio. This stripped down Packard is practically a death trap.
     
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  3. Silvertwinkiehobo

    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    But you'd die in style, with the hugest rict-I mean-smile, on your face!
     
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  4. OrthmannJ

    OrthmannJ Always looking for old ford crew cabs

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    It's a beautiful car, no question about it.
     
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    No seat belts and mechanical drum brakes! Definitely a gorgeous car but you can't really drive it anywhere.
     
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    HotRodRacer Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    I don't know about that. I live in a very rural area and my Dad had a 1935 Ford Fordor sedan with mechanical brakes and no seat belts, one tail light, and we drove it a lot. Depends on your setting, I guess.
     
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    Henry Ford didn’t trust hydraulic brakes that’s why they were the last car company to get them
     
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    This concern about brakes and all is pointless. No one is going to drive this $150,000+ car anywhere but from the trailer to the show field and then back from the show field to the trailer. It might get in a parade now and then, but then it will be going 5 mph. I think the mechanical brakes can handle that.

    It is unusual to see a car like this on BaT, and there are the usual naysayers that always make me wonder why anyone would sell a car there, but there it is.
     
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    My post of this being a daily driver was a joke. I don't think anyone would use this as a daily driver. beautiful Car.
     
    markfnc, Dec 5, 2022
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    There is one person that would take it out on the open road.
     
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    A Packard hater, maybe :D
     
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    Bid to $230,000 on 12/10/22, No Sale
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    OrthmannJ Always looking for old ford crew cabs

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    :eek:
     
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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    Yeah, no kidding. Since my Grandpa Fred was a Packard Man, but has been gone nearly a half Century, there's no way for me to know if his '32 was this model or not.
     
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