Re: The optional 327

Posted by Anonymous On 2009/4/8 12:42:52

Just to confuse you guys further, there was a lot of swapping going on when we Packard nuts figured out we could go into a wrecking yard and get a nice '53 or '54 FOUR barrel equipped engine and drop it into our '51's and later that originally had the 288.

Once, around '62, I came upon a beautiful MINT MINT MINT '54 Patrician in a wrecking yard that was effectively a new car, except it had been broad-sided. Had MANUAL tranny. Would have loved to have stuck THAT in my '51 "250" convertible instead of the '54 327 I cut out of a "rolled" Packard ambulence.

My recollection is the yard wanted some absurd price for the whole drive-line out of that '54 Pat., so I passed on it. Cant recall how much - think it was something like A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS ! Ridiculous.......!