SOLD
Asking Price: $12,500
Location: Santa Maria California
Title Status: Clean
Seller’s Description: It’s a 1948 Packard Convertible with its original straight-8 and is 98 percent complete. Last registered and on the road in 1966.
Body Condition: Looks like one re-spray over the original navy blue. No signs of any major accidents. Very solid with some small rust areas on the front floor boards and trunk floor.
Mechanical Condition: Needs mechanical restoration, but motor has compression and the basic stuff is all there and solid. I have not started it and have not tested the other systems. New water pump, front motor mount, rebuilt radiator, plugs and wires. All it needs is the brakes rebuilt to drive it.
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This is a sweet looking car and being Cali should be clean from major rust 👍👀
Anyone have Jay Leno’s number to add to his collection?
Friend of mine has this same car stashed away in back of a shed,hasn’t moved in 40 years. No doubt will set there till his kids some day have to pull it out. It’s a bad situation for his Packard , how ever it’s alright and o k for my kids and Fords to be in the same boat. L O L
I imagine that restored this would be one elegant looking car. But the colour has got to go. I think it would look fantastic restored to black exterior. Red leather interior, and a red soft top. I’d put a red pinstripe down each side too. The rest of the mechanical work would depend on what you want to do with it. If you want a concours trailer queen than full on restoration, if you want it to be a driver then maybe a resto mod is in order complete with a revised drive line. I’d want it to be somewhere in between restored original engine trans rear axle. And maybe modern brakes and steering so those weekend cruises are safe ones.
Definitely worth saving! ANY Packard cvt. of this era or later can only go up in value once restored. I doubt you’ll find another one this complete, given its age.
Just saw a movie called “Impact” where the main character had one of these. Lots of great motion shots.
Extreme wide whitewalls. Referred to in the film as a Packard “roadster’.
The apartment building in it is the same one Kim Novak and her husband lived in in Vertigo.
Looks like all the high dollar parts are on the car. The asking price is fair enough. A buyer will dump several more grand into it, but these cars bring big loot when in top condition. I’ve never been a fan of post WWII Packards, but I see potential in this one. Good luck to all.
This is a truly wonderful car.
I drove a ’48 Packard woodie in Hawaii for a week, a number of years ago. Talk about people staring with a thumbs up, fantastic! Better yet, it drove almost like new, which it wasn’t, but man….WOW!
I’m in, how to get it home to Ohio?
Dad would have loved this!
Packard’s were the only one left of the “3 P’s” after WWII! He liked Buicks, but Packard was “it”!
All it needs is brakes rebuilt to drive it? Ya’ haven’t even started it….just sayin.
Yeah, this makes no sense, sayin’ it’s got compression, new water pump, motor mounts, spark plugs but he’s not tried starting it?? I’ll bet he did but heard somethin’ ominous like a knocking rod that scared him, (and his wallet).
Big fan of Packards. Great cars. Take this one, paint it yellow, lower the top, pick up your gal and cruise the town like Doc Brown. GLWTS.