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Re: Packard - Bentley/RR Similarity
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You've brought up a topic that has interested me ever since I noticed the family resemblance, Mark.
I find the similarities between '42-48 Clippers and RR/Bentley Ghosts (I forget what the Bentley equivalent of the Silver Ghost is called...) of the 50's and 60's to be more than just a coincidence. I've never compared specs or seen both vehicles parked side by side, but that would show the similarities even more, I'm thinking.
Posted on: 2014/10/9 12:54
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Re: On Hemmings
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What a lovely car, indeed!
Any time I see a mid to late 30s phaeton or roadster for sale, I wonder why any were EVER made. In my opinion, though lovely, they're wildly impractical. Especially in that time period, when roads were much better and speeds much higher than in earlier open-car eras. Of course, such a vehicle would be MUCH more practical in, say, Australia. Yet Mal, the only Aussie Packard-ist of my acquaintance, has a CLOSED Packard. Hmmmmm..... 
Posted on: 2014/10/2 7:42
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Posted on: 2014/9/4 12:16
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Re: 1947 Custom Super Clipper Eight Touring Sedan
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JW, if I had $22,547, you would no longer own that beautiful Packard. Alas, I do not... 
Posted on: 2014/7/23 12:16
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Re: 1947 Custom Super Clipper Eight Touring Sedan
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I have to agree, Jim L. Even though I was little, I still remember riding in Dad's '47 (in the early '60's). AND look how long Rolls-Royce used a strikingly similar body design!
Posted on: 2014/7/23 8:16
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My wife & I watched the Coen Brothers movie 'Inside Llewyn Davis' (from 2013) over the weekend. It takes place in the early 60's and is VERY loosely based on a week in the life of the late Dave Van Ronk, folk and blues singer.
In a VERY brief scene, Llewyn Davis exits a black and white '55 Patrician after riding in it as part of a hitchhiking sequence. No other shots of the car, just Mr. Davis exiting it...
Posted on: 2014/7/21 13:28
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Re: Easier to drive: shift on the floor or column?
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JW, it's entirely possible that Dad did that. I was 6-7-8 years old at the time (early 1960s), so I have no idea at all how he did it, just that he managed to install it... I DO know that after he bought a brand-new 1965 Checker Marathon, he quit driving the Packard. In 1968, he traded it and 3 other cars for a running, driving Renault Dauphine, of all things...
Posted on: 2014/7/18 7:54
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Re: Easier to drive: shift on the floor or column?
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When I was really little, Dad bought one of those generic floor shifter kits for our '47 Clipper. I have no idea why he did that.
I had occasion to drive a '63 Mercedes 220 with a FOUR-speed shifter on the column. Interesting! Personally, although I know why manufacturers went w/column shifters, I prefer 'em on the floor.
Posted on: 2014/7/17 15:53
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Re: What are artillery wheels?
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I'm reminded of a a story I read many years ago of the cross-country trip taken in 1911 by 2 high school graduates.
I believe the car they drove was a Moline Dreadnought. They had NO roads in some of the states they drove across, and of course the car was equipped with large wooden spoked wheels.
Posted on: 2014/7/16 9:35
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Re: 1956 Executive Discussion / Comments
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The '56 Executive is also MY favorite Packard model from that year, especially the 2-door hardtop.
(I also like that particular year because I was born in 1956.)
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