Re: Monoblock Engine Introductions

Posted by JWL On 2011/8/15 9:07:58

I am enjoying this discussion, and the interesting question that it poses. I believe that the expense to make a new monoblock senior 8-cylinder engine was not economically practical. The Twin Six had started development before the full impact of the economic depression was felt, and was continued so that Packard would have something to compete with against the other "multi-cylinder" makes. The senior cars were a small percentage of total production after 1935. To go to the expense to develop a new engine for these models would not have made good sense at the time. As we know, it was not until the 1940 models, when the senior models morphed into the One Twenty, that the 356 engine for the senior Packards was introduced.

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