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yankeedog — Hot Rod Packard
Published: 2007-09-26 21:41:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 8935; Favourites: 91; Downloads: 35
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I doubt anyone would be crazy enough to do this, but... here's the idea, run with it.To get started, you'll need a 1923 Packard 230 Coach [link] and a big old Packard V-12 and your own gas station.
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Thanks! Dude, your work is wicked!!! I really dig the way you do chrome. I'm going to add you to my watch!
-YD
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Really nice, but I prefer when the front wheels are a little smaller than the back ones 
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Kick ass!!!
A friend of mine's dad has a 1937 Packard Super-8 in 100% stock condition that just got restored, and his side project for the past year or so has been taking a rusted and almost useless 1940 Packard Ambulance (coachwork by Henney) and he's shortened it by about 4 feet and made it into a panel delivery for his body shop. I'll post pictures of it soon...
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Thanks!
Please let me know when you post the pix, that sound really cool!
-YD
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Someone at a car show in Leavenworth, KS had a 38 Packard with a Chevy 360 in it, and it had three deuces on top.
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Wow, that must have been cool!
-YD
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you forgot one other item, if your acctually gonna build & drive thes car...a pair of big swingin' brass ones the size of bowling balls
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-YD
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Wow, what a great concept for a rod.
I luving'your auto images even more than your trains and planes, which are the best.
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Thanks, I really appreciate that! It would be cool to see someone build one, but I suspect a Packard would be too valuable to do that to.
-Don
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Thanks! I'm working on a couple old Jeeps and a Caddy in the same basic style.
-YD
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Thanks Ahmed! I really appreciate that. We all have some things in mind that we think are cool. I'm just trying to put my stamp on some of those things. It's all about dreaming. We could maybe never own a car like this, but we can dream it and illustrated it.
-YD
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I can't explain it, but I really like your recent series of illustrations incorporating your new ideas, the Board Track Racer, for example.
Every new drawing of yours inspires me to illustrate something classic right away, but I don't find the kind of calm thats needed to do such these days, I would just say that pieces like this don't get together every now and then, nor artists like you are born every day.
This is perhaps one of your most beautiful illustrations.
- Ahmed Nayyer
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Thanks Ahmed! I really appreciate that. We all have some things in mind that we think are cool. I'm just trying to put my stamp on some of those things. It's all about dreaming. We could maybe never own a car like this, but we can dream it and illustrated it.
-YD
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Thanks! Just having a little fun!
-YD
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Thanks! This was a fun concept.
-YD
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Thanks! This one is a Packard V-12 Marine engine. That's a V-12 too, it might be a Packard or maybe Caddy, cool car, thanks for the link!
-YD
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Ah, very cool. And you're welcome for the link.
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You supply the body and engine and I'll be crazy enough to try! Nice job and attention to detail, as usual. I love that you left the spare tire on the back, that really seals the whole look.
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Thanks! I wish I had the body and engine, that would be too cool.
-YD
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Thanks, I was thinking about that song the whole time I was doing this.
-YD
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Cool...I wonder if this would be a perfect car to race against that hotrod Lincoln? ("Son you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop racin' that hot rod Lincoln!") As usual, your attention to details is cool.
~Ra'akone
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Thanks, I was thinking about that song the whole time I was doing this.
-YD
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