Are you good with a wrench, and maybe not so good with a paint gun? If your answer is “yes,” this 1935 Packard Eight restoration project might interest you.
According to the seller, this senior series Packard has recently been given a bare-metal respray in acrylic urethane, at a cost in excess of the $25,000 asking price. Thousands more have been spent on chrome, with an estimated 95 percent of the pieces replated.
There is still at least one major piece of the project to be tackled, besides the reassembly, and that’s the interior. As the seller notes, new upholstery will be needed.
The body style is called the Formal Sedan, and it’s one of 18 body styles offered in the Eight line for 1935. It rides on a 134-inch wheelbase, and listed for a hefty $3,285 when new, the equivalent of $75,300 today. Just 4,781 Eights were built in 1935, and they’re considered Full Classics by the Classic Car Club of America. Packard referred to this model as the 1201, with 12 standing for the Twelfth Series, and 01 identifying it as an Eight.
The Eight is powered by Packard’s 320-cu.in. straight-eight, rated at 120 hp at 3,200 rpm. It’s brawny enough to accelerate the seven-passenger sedan to more than 90 mph. The seller cautions that this vehicle has not been driven in “many years,” and makes no claims about its mechanical condition or originality.
The fabric part of the roof evidently needs some work. Stalled restoration projects can present real headaches, with the potential for missing or unidentified parts (especially fasteners), and those are things we might ask the seller about. Eights of this era bring an average of $98,500 at auction, according to classic.com, though we should note that the average is raised by prices for open cars, which can sell for much more than closed cars.
If you take the plunge and get this luxurious Packard back on the road, please be sure to let us know about it!
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