UNIQUE 1953 PACKARD CLIPPER DELUXE TWO DOOR BUSINESS COUPE

I am the Third Owner of this car. There were only a handful made with no backseat and factory roll bars. It was made for the Pikes Peak Road Race and is street legal. There were only a handful made and now there are only one of one of these cars with all the custom modifications.

WHY WAIT FOR BARRETT-JACKSON?!!!

Buy this car direct and own a piece of racing history.

The car is fully street legal and it's also race ready!

The lower rocker panel body has been welded smooth. The hood was smoothed out and cleaned up. All of the trim and the corners were radiused. The rear trunk was also stripped of all the die cast trim and the bottom of the trunk lid was raised up 4.0 inches and the edges were radiused instead of lefted square. A custom 15-gallon harwood fuel cell was added in a full steel cage plus dual batteries mounted in the trunk. A sunken electric antenna was custom molded into the right rear quarter panel of the body.

All the body panels were hammer welded and lead worked with very little bondo as a skim coat. The roof was chopped 4.0 inch in height and the front "A" pillars were angled back 1 1/4 inches also the rear of the roof sits forward 16 inches more that normal from most Packard's which sets this special Packard Business Coupe apart from the standard Packard Sedan. The front splash apron in back of the bumper was custom made and the front bumper was chopped and welded and smoothed over with a lot of custom work to finish it off. The back bumper was also highly custom worked over and extended outward 3 1/2 inches.

The front grill is made up of a 1951 and 52 and 53 Packard grill to give it a unique look. The engine compartment was stripped clean and smooth over and lots of the engine components have been hidden to give the engine compartment a clean look. An electric windshield wiper has been set up instead of the old vacuum set up. The side trim on the body was also customized. The rear brake light housings have been modified and smoothed out. The fins were also removed.

The engine is a one of a kind special small block racing engine that IS STREET LEGAL.

Bill Mitchell in Long Island built the custom made long block. It is a 434 ci small block Chevy motor. The special one off fuel induction system was hand made by "BDS" blower drive service in California. The unique underlie fuel injection with its wild stack set up really stands out. It is fully computerized also with a BRAND NEW COMPUTER!

The heads are made by Hard Core Engineering from billet aluminum angle milled to 20 deg, 230 cc raised runners, 64cc chambers, crower valves 2.125" x 1.600" crower roller lifters and 1.6 ratio roller rockers, .680 lift crower roller cam, crower blue printed worked crank, Oliver parabolic 6.125" rods, 4.0" stroke crank. Steward stage 4 aluminum water pump, Steff aluminum racing oil system and pan. TCI race prep 350 turbo trans with a TCI 5,500 stall tork converter, Jensel belt drive, MSD ignition system, Moser custom built billet proof 12 bolt Chevy 4:48 full posi rear with extra heavy duty art morrison axles. There is tons of body work that are not mentioned but you can see the details and compare the original Packard car to this one to see how uniquely it has been customized.

The body was painted a unique combination of house of colors candy gold with tangerine and lemon lime flip flop candy and a pearl white flip flop underneath coat layering. The three shades of raspberry and pinstripe flamework across the body compliment the very unique one of a kind paint job.

This car will be sold so someone who will appreciate the $110,000 and years that have been poured into this car.

The car just moved from Nashville, TN to Jamestown, KY and has had a fresh detail job.

Please contact me for more pictures of the car as all of the pictures would not fit on this E-Bay auction.

For more information, call 270-566-0449.

Note: The Seller has the right to end the auction at any time as the vehicle is being sold locally.