Re: 1947 356 cu inch manifolds

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2015/11/24 16:36:29

(1) With regard to the color of engine paint, several other makes at one time or another used a green the same or very similar to Packard. Oldsmobile comes to mind immediately and although Pierce-Arrow generally used black I believe they used a similar green at one point in their history. As to a law suit over the use of that color, that seems without basis, any more than you could sue because someone offered a car in black, or blue.

(2) Re porcelaining of manifolds, I suspect it was as much a matter of cost containment as it was of just changing times. There was a time when owners of luxury cars fully expected their engines to be "well-dressed", for example the large amount of nickel plating on senior Packard engines thru 1939. But I think that era was in it's waning days by 1940. Nothing particularly "dressy" about the new wide-angle Cadillac V16.