Re: Top Speeds

Posted by su8overdrive On 2023/2/16 0:58:26

Right. The dictum was to not "have your foot in the carburetor;" to not pull too much manifold pressure, or lug the engine.
Better to err on slight over rev than lugging, a free running engine happier, returning better fuel mileage.

Ain't requesting "Oxford/Harvard English," whatever that may be. Only enough thought and consideration that posters proof before clicking submit. Every household should have a dictionary, hence the wonder as to how much care goes into maintaining some of these survivors.

The missing "are" baffling you extraneous, purposely omitted, even as certain nervous tics and gingerbread on our cars. Less is more lost on many domestic old car owners, as much as "weight is the enemy."

A longtime friend who's owned 70+ Packards, junior and senior, pre- and postwar, since he in high school, i upon tricycle, is on his fourth or so Darrin, his swan song black, black top, blackwalls, basic bale ornament, gray interior, naught else. You really "see" the car.

Was decrying the "One Eighty" script below the front of the hood on '41 & '42 Darrins, which some think overblown, different affairs than the lithe, casual 1938-40 editions. A swoopy car's style should say it all. Even a schoolboy recognizes it.

Cars looks just like a One-Twenty to the man or woman on the street, then and now. You didn't see "Delage D8S," "Delahaye 145," "Bentley VI," "Silver Dawn," "Silver Wraith" plastered on their fare.

You didn't see "Super Eight," or "Twelve" body script on the elegant, chiseled '30s fire trucks either.

A fellow '40s Clipper owner thinks Packard should've foregone that appellation; doing so would've emboldened the Company's sole hit of the decade, further heightened their immediate popularity more than torrents of ad copy.

Doesn't matter whether "Clipper" meant to invoke the previous century's fastest merchant sailing ships, Pan Am's 1935 flying boat, or Joe DiMaggio. Winners don't need to recall others' imagery. Packard said it all, or would have.

Some at East Grand realized this, or they wouldn't have omitted Super Clipper and Clipper Super on the other side of the Customs, and Packard from the trunk lid of the 1948-50 Customs.

Editing, whether words or cars, always a good idea, especially when it's been decades since Ralph Estep, and GM production men increasingly running your company.