Owen

Correct, and the Twelve of the Thirties was originally going to be a smaller front drive companion of the Eight. MacCauley was always conscious of competition from below

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John Harley

Fogfather


The 282 and the 288 have different bore centers, so they are really different engines

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John Harley

Rusty

The Model Thirty had a smaller companion, the Eighteen (taxable horsepower). The Dominant Sixes came in two sizes, though nobody could ever possibly conceive a Dominant Six as anything but huge or bigger. I thinks the short ones had a 138" wheelbase

Of course, the first one cylinder cars are "small" but even they are much bigger than a Curved Dash Olds

You should save your pennies and get a copy of the Kimes book. It's really a very good story.

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John Harley

Lincoln

Great car. Some of us are envious


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John Harley

Tim

On this website you can find parts numbers for most of the items you need. NAPA or any other competent parts store shoud be able to get the parts for you. Failing that, the usual suspects, i.e. Kanter or Merritt will help you.

I had a 1950 Eight for many years that I drove to many faraway places. They are wonderful , underated road cars

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John Harley

Friends

The WWII contracts in the US were cost plus 3%. PMMC, ever patriaotic, billed the government cost plus 1.5%.

Hitler nationalized Opel, with belonged to GM. After the war, GM tried to sue the government for the damage done to the Opel plants done by Allied bombing. I don't know if they succeded.

Charlie Wilson, Eisenhower's Secretaary of Defense, was fomerly the Chairman of GM. During his confirmation hearings, he said "What's good for General Motors is good for the country and vice versa". After his confirmation, Packard lost much of their defense business in the name of national security. At that point defense business was 50% of PMCC"S business and 80% of their profit.

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John Harley

Friends

I put a belt on my '41 160 two years ago. On these cars one has to wedge it between the lower pulley and frame on the RH side. After about 2 hours of 4 people working on it, I had an idea . We smeared the belt with silicone and pushed it through the gap with with a stick about 3 feet long.

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John Harley

Friends

I grew up on the North side of Indianapolis in the 60's. My mother was an aviation writer for My Weekly Reader and other related peridodicals such as Read and Current Science.

We spent some time at Wier Cook Airport in Indianapolis as my father sometimes traveled for business (law publishing) and Mom was working working on two biographies of Glenn L. Martin. This involved her flying to Washington to do research..

I remembver the Gilmore hanger and I had some idea who he was. There was some commeration of an anniversary of a Congressioanal act establihsing commcercial airlines about 1963. It involved a Ford Trimotor flying across the country and Mom took the three of us out to see it. I was ecstatic to climb aboard although my brothers were much less enthused as they were never gearheads...


At any rate I remember us running around in the Gilmore Hanger and seeing his racing plane hanging from the rafters. The lion was long gone.

Obviously a different era.

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John Harley

Jesse


126 Sedan. First series 6 cylinder sedan, about 1923. Built before the introduction of 4 wheel brakes on the sixes in 1924. This model was first built as the 116, with a shorter wheelbase and black painted radiator. They were homely and didn't sell. The car was otherwise sound, so Packard hurredly extended the wheelbase and plated the trim. They sold much better,and the six was their bread and butter car till the end of the 20's

This was just before the introduction of quick drying laquer,and all closed cars were shipped in blue ("Packard Blue") unless ordered otherwise. The varnish finish took about a month to apply due to the number of coats and slow drying times


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John Harley

Friends

That head on *b*y "interchanges with many makes, including "Stanly". I'd like to see the "Stanly" it fits....

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John Harley