Second Wind - a Packard Gasser

[zzrodder]

Looking like jungle gym with all the tubing
Making progress on the floor structure and body mounts, also adding mounting points for a roll cage. I want to be able to still take the body off the frame once the cage is in, so each mounting plate bolts to a corresponding plate welded to pedestals off the frame. Like Frankie said - "I did it my way"

[soltz]

Good thinking
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[zzrodder]

Working my way to the rear with the floor structure and body mounting. First I made some bracing/supports for the rear of the body, squared it up and shwacked out the remaining bit of the trunk floor. I had planned to use the tailpan I have from the 36 Packard that I still have, but it's pretty crispy too, so I'll just have to make a whole new tailpan and trunk lip like I did for the last Packard coupe. The trunk opening was originally all framed with wood so I'll also have to redo that with 1" square tubing.

[zzrodder]

Went to Pick n Pull today with my trusty battery powered axe and scalped a 96 Grand Marquis
The shape of it works pretty good, the curve from the front of it matches the bubble at the rear of of the Packard roof nicely.

[smallfoot]

Nice fit!

[bob w]

That's the way to do it.

[DozerII]

Almost perfect.

[Old Iron]

The Marquee's and Crown Vics are the roof donors that you use on a lot of your projects isn't it?

[zzrodder]

Originally Posted by Old Iron

The Marquee's and Crown Vics are the roof donors that you use on a lot of your projects isn't it?

I see you've been paying attention to my habits
Yeah, they have the right shape for these 30's cars, hard to find newer cars with a large enough piece to work with, and I'd hate to cut the roof from some 40's car to do it.

[bob w]

A Taurus roof worked well on my Anglia. It didn't bother me to ruin a Taurus.