Re: Some general questions about 30's Packards

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/5/9 17:26:05

The shutter-controlled engine temperature regulation was manufactured by Pines and known as a "Pines Winterfront". The thermostat was made by Fulton Sylphon. This type of unit was used on many makes of cars; on Packards from at least the late 20s thru 1942. A few of the junior models used it as well, for example the 1938 Eight (aka 120).

I could be wrong, but I thought the Packard all-steel bodies were built by Briggs, not Budd. Briggs began making all Packard bodies in 1940 and continued thru 1954 when the Briggs family sold the business to Chrysler who was their largest customer at that time.

In 1938, the senior Packards (Twelve and Super 8) still used composite bodies (wood framed, steel skinned); in 1939 only the Twelve remained as composite as the 1939 Super 8 was really an all-steel 120 body with the old Super Eight (originally the Standard Eight) engine.