Re: 1940-1941 PACKARD AC COOLING A SIDE OF BEEF?

Posted by ALLEN B. SIMONS On 2017/2/7 17:57:32

2-7-17

Hi Howard,

How's the AC coming along? After I sent you the 1941 Packard Clipper pics taken from Terry Weiss's beautiful car, somehow I ran across your restoration blog......Holy Moly!

Also about the tale of cooling a side of beef, yes, the color brochures do include images of the blocks of ice. Yes, both 40 and 41 color brochure pieces are in my chapters. It would be nice to confirm such a tale, though.

As to my book, I am writing 5 chapters for 1940-1942: 1940, 1941, 1942 Packard; 1941 Cadillac, and 1940 Chrysler Imperial and 1942 DeSoto combined chapter.

I have just finished the 1940 Packard chapter: 8500 words and 91 mostly color images.

I have already written the 1953 chapters: Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Chrysler Corp cars- Chrysler, Imperial, DeSoto and Dodge, then Lincoln and Packard.

Most of these 1953 AC chapters run over 30 pages with 40-60 images each.

I am revising my 1953 Packard chapter to include a photo op of Billy Vaticalos' Cavalier with factory air. I took the pics at Salado 2015. Good timing because it is now in Brazil!

This Volume 1 will probably run +/- 300 pages, so Volume 2 will begin with 1954 and run through probably 1956.

Volume 3 will conclude with 1957-1960.

I am specifically using as much of the original brochures, road tests, owner's manuals, etc. which deal with AC.

I hope to publish Volume 1 this year.

Thanks for your comments.

See ya,

archiveman2977
Allen B. Simons
281-798-3031