Gads, my very first thread on this site starts a flame war. I had a couple of additional questions regarding the combustion chamber of the 2nd Generation Twin Six and would appreciate it if someone has that info or if they'd like to post it in one of the special article sections here.
I have a pretty good magazine article with reviews of a '55 Packard 400 vs the luxo competition, which I'll post a link to here if I can find it.
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"New" unsold 1956 Packards sat out in the open in various dealers lots that I am personally aware of, clear into summer of '57. Have no idea how they finally got rid of them.
PackardFan
I know of one place for sure-- auctions, I know this because my dad bought our new 55 Clipper at one, and HE was there, and he wouldn't lie.
I appreciated reading a little more about the Packard/Merlin. However, I think Packard cannot take credit for the original design, but they sure can take it for redisigning an RR engine until it really was like a new engine, with better specs all around. And then they built practically all of them. That engine never would've "flown" without Packard, and people keep insisting on calling it a "Merlin" or a "Rolls Royce" engine. Bah.
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