My next project? 1921 Packard Coupe

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Hello all

I seem to have shocked you all into silence with the photographs of the Peugeot. Pity it really is a great "drivers" car but enough distractions for now!

Aaron is onto the last lap with the Packard body he tellsme that there is about two more weeks work for him to complete. All I am waiting for now for the engine is the distributor which is being checked over by my friendly local ignition man. I have just this morning bought the cotton covered hi-tension wire for the spark plug leads. I am still searching for the screw in plug for the timing case that disappeared mysteriously into some seldom visited corner of my workshop a couple of weeks ago.

One more thing to be added to the want list is a mesh stone guard for the radiator.

6-8-2011

Hi West

My reasons for wanting a stone guard is two fold. First, Yes I do like to drive my cars. Then having been given a choice between a $5,500 re-core using a reproduction honeycomb with questionable cooling efficiency and a $3,500 job using a modern core with guaranteed ability to keep the engine cool in modern traffic conditions, I chose the latter. The one problem with the modern core is that it is susceptible to stone damage and there is a lot of it exposed. Of course from an appearance point of view it is quite obvious that it is a modern core and it would look slightly better covered with a mesh "stone-guard". 

Even if the stone guard costs $2,000, and I hope that it doesn't, I believe that I will have a better outcome.

Hello Again

Several people at various times have suggested that I contact Henry Yeska. Despite a number of efforts on my part I have been consistently unsuccessful. Can anyone please give me his contact details. 

Surprisingly there are several H Yeskas living in PA none that I have tried seem to be the right one.

6-10-2011

Some little time ago we were discussing tail lamps. I thought that you may like to see my original one purchased with the Packard. I have recently done a little work on it.

In addition to working on the Tail lamp I have done a bit more on the engine. I know that you all like photographs so I will share these with you.