Re: '48-50 engines

Posted by 58L8134 On 2016/1/30 11:11:51

Hi Kevin

Dave is correct, those are among the most bulletproof engines Packard built. As for the 1954 engine in your 1948 Super Eight limousine, that likely has more to do with the service it performed in its working years. If it was in livery operation, it may well have racked up far more miles than show on the odometer. Were it's original engine becoming tired from that high mileage but the body still in good condition otherwise, the Packard dealer would have gladly swapped in either a factory-supplied service engine or a low-mileage unit salvage from a late-model wreck. Either was more common back action then than now.

Steve