Re: The Second Packard "Twin Six"

Posted by Eric Boyle On 2008/9/21 0:18:32
To all:

One thing to remember when dealing with Peter Hartmann is, that "He's been there, you haven't".

Here's a list of things that Peter's been there on, but none of us have, starting from the beginning:
#1-"And God said, let there be light, and there was light", Petey was there.

#2-When Moses parted the Red Sea, Petey was there chasing him in his Egyptian chariot (The horse's name was "V12", just a bit of trivia for later). Luckily Petey's V12 was slower than the other horses, as Petey made it there just in time to watch the waters to come back together and drown everyone.

#3-Peter worked in a chariot restoration shop during the reign of Alexander, restoring old Egyptian chariots and telling everyone how good they were, but they don't make them anymore because "mismanagement" of the Egyptian monarchy causing their defeat and subsequent takeover by the Greeks. Tells everyone that even though they like his chariots, "they just weren't there when they were new, and he was".

#4-During the reign of Caesar, Petey worked in a chariot shop recreating the style of the Egyptian chariots, but found the man down the street who was recreating Sumerian chariots to be a PITA and a constant bother. Numerous arguments and street brawls ended up with Petey's shop getting closed, so now he had to look for other work.

#5-So now at this time Peter finds himself in Judea, and finds a young man talking about "love" and "brotherhood" and silly words like "love thy neighbor" and finds them repulsive.

#6-Not much happening until the Middle Ages, when Petey finds himself in the middle of a Crusade, and tries to supply chariots to the invading armies, only to find that "his old ways are out of date" and no one's really interested in Egyptian chariots in the late 1300's.

#7-Figuring that the now occurring Renaissance will spark a revival of Egyptian chariot interest, Petey moves back to Europe to try and start a business. Business is good for a couple of years, then the two people that were interested take delivery of them and find that the build quality isn't up to their standards. One of the buyers even has to kick the one door to get out!

#8-Petey now realizes that the Byzantine chariots with their open rears and no doors is a better design, but the chassis of the Egyptian chariot is "stronger" and "has a higher build quality" than the Byzantine chariots, so Peter decides to put an Egyptian rear end under his Byzantine chariot, thus making the "perfect" chariot. Only took him 3000 years to figure this out.

#9-With the coming of Napoleon, Peter now finds himself in the "luxury wagon" business, building ultra-luxury high-end wagons for Emperors and Kings. With war, business is good.

#10-With the advent of the internal combustion engine, Petey now finds himself in a new field--Automobiles. Figuring that the old ways are gone, even with the current Egyptian Revival of the Victorian period, Peter decides to maybe incorporating some Egyptian design elements into his automobiles he might make some quick money. But alas, the Egyptian Revival period is over fast, and Peter finds himself looking for a new "angle"

#11-During WWI, Peter finds himself examining a Twin Six Packard, only to find that "these amazing humans" have created one of the finest engines ever, and so begins to evangelize the superiority of the Packard Twin Six. But soon finds them discontinued to be replaced by the Packard 8, a clearly inferior design by Peter's high standards.

#11-Peter wakes up one morning to read in the paper that Packard has re-introduced the Twin Six! Peter is so excited he stubs his toe on his "prototype Twin Six Egyptian chariot" in his garage.

#12-Knowing that this V12 from Packard is even better than the original Twin Six, Peter makes it his duty to find one of these engines to put in his chariot. Peter takes a job at the local Packard dealership to gather experience on working on these wonderful automobiles. Over time, Peter saves back enough money to buy that $400 Packard V12.

#13-It's the reign of Nixon, and Peter decides to "update" his V12 with a 1958 Oldsmobile rear axle. The Egyptian chariot axle won't work because it's not "beefy enough"

#14-Peter finds Packardinfo.com, and proceeds to tell all of us we don't know jack schitt about Packards, and we should listen to him.

Now, with this timeline everyone should have NO doubts about Peter's expertise. Remember, Peter's been there, and we haven't.

This Post was from: https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=13232