Ok, here goes. I looked at it and walked away first time, the floors were totally rotten and it was missing a bunch of hard to find trim pieces.
Then the sickness took hold, started thinking up ways to build it, made the guy an offer and lo and behold, another project. These 2dr. Clippers are pretty rare and I'd never even heard of one before this. Some of the Packard purists might get PO'd at making a rod out of it, but it had been for sale for 2 years and they'd all walked saying it was too rotten, etc.
Now here's a stroke of luck, while towing it home, a guy flags me down and says he has a 47 4dr. parts car, am I interested?? What are the odds??? Called him up that night, his dad had restored a 47 Super Clipper and though it was gone he still had the parts car at his brothers farm, wanted it gone and I could HAVE IT FOR THE TAKING !! It was 1000 KM away in northern Alberta, but I on it like flies on manure, whisked it home just ahead of a major snowstorm.
It was loaded with parts, all the missing stuff I needed plus tons more, flogged off the extra parts on ebay to the tune of $2500, it paid for the gas, trailer and hotels, what a great start!!