Re: 1938 Packard Twelve mystery shifter?

Posted by Peter Hartmann On 2008/8/13 19:12:15

See - Turbo - how little you know about twelve cylinder cars and what we do to them at my special shop....I bet you thought that was the hand-shifter for one of the several over-drive units that are avail.

W R O N G

That is a Packard-installed factory "option". The Packard Motor Car Company felt SO badly about the vastly superior performance of its V-12's, that, for people with compassion for the feelings of the eight cyl. Packards, you could buy a special "cylinder disconnect" lever, as this one is equipped with.

See...you "throw" that little lever, and it dis-connects ten of the twelve cylinders, so that you eight cyl. Packard guys can keep up with it, and not feel so bad.......