Re: When deciding what to buy....
Posted by JD in KC On 2011/5/23 9:52:41
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When I was a child of about 5 yrs (in the San Fernando Valley) my parents had a lemon yellow '49 Nash Airflyte. The rear window was impossible to see out of and the car was terribly underpowered. The interior was certainly a conversation starter what with the 'Uniscope' instrument pod on the steering column, the plastic point on the center of the steering wheel aimed right at your sternum and of course the Drive-in ready fold-down double bed. The car spent an inordinate amount of time in the repair shop. My father t-boned a red-light runner downtown (with me in the passenger seat) and that was the end of the Nash.
If being able to see out of the car is something you find important, then don't forget that with all the fastbacks of the period the rear window is oriented pretty much up to the sky. To add to that problem, the '48-49 22nd series Packard had a pretty small rear window. Packard increased the size of the rear window by about a third with the 23rd series.
If I still lived in the SFV, I would be happy to let you drive either of my bathtub Packards. The interiors (especially the 22nd series Custom) have plenty of 'razzle-dazzle'.
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49Custom8Convert wrote:
The car was hard to see out of, the engine felt greatly underpowered, and the inside of the car had zero razzle dazzle to keep an aesthete happy. I'm in the San Fernando Valley.
When I was a child of about 5 yrs (in the San Fernando Valley) my parents had a lemon yellow '49 Nash Airflyte. The rear window was impossible to see out of and the car was terribly underpowered. The interior was certainly a conversation starter what with the 'Uniscope' instrument pod on the steering column, the plastic point on the center of the steering wheel aimed right at your sternum and of course the Drive-in ready fold-down double bed. The car spent an inordinate amount of time in the repair shop. My father t-boned a red-light runner downtown (with me in the passenger seat) and that was the end of the Nash.
If being able to see out of the car is something you find important, then don't forget that with all the fastbacks of the period the rear window is oriented pretty much up to the sky. To add to that problem, the '48-49 22nd series Packard had a pretty small rear window. Packard increased the size of the rear window by about a third with the 23rd series.
If I still lived in the SFV, I would be happy to let you drive either of my bathtub Packards. The interiors (especially the 22nd series Custom) have plenty of 'razzle-dazzle'.
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