Re: Hot Rod Packards

Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2009/12/28 15:55:50

I never heard of any hot rod six or straight eight Packards and I had practically all of the hot rod magazines from the little pages days on up.

There were a few Packard V8 powered dragsters when Packard liquidated their leftover engines in the late 50s.

The only Packard speed equipment I know of was made by Eddie Edmunds. His motto was "Modernize your Motor". He made aluminum heads, multi carb intakes etc. for all kinds of cars the other speed merchants wouldn't touch. As his motto suggests, his market was not racers or hot rodders but ordinary motorists who wanted a little more performance on the road. It was probably Edmunds equipment you saw.

Check out the 1952 Edmunds accessory catalog here:packardinfo.com/xoops/html/downloads/1952_EdmundsBrochure.pdf