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Owen_Dyneto wrote:
Jack, I guess I didn't express myself very well, I was thinking in terms of how many extra manifolds Packard would chose to stock to service the 1955/56 Caribbeans without consideration for any intended use in Packards after that, much less any other future needs.
Aaaaannnnnnnd... don't forget (as I have mentioned in times past) there was indeed a Packard marine V-8 with dual quads as well. When I first mentioned this online years ago, there were folks taking potshots all over it... couldn't be... this and that... only later to be proved that I was right all along. So again, yet another direction these dual quad manifolds went.
And for those folks who are old Detroiters, there were at least two hot-rod shops that were selling Packard dual-quad intakes well into the 1960s...as speed equipment. These were...
1.) Gratiot Hot-Rod shop (and no, it was NOT pronounced "gray-sha" like some youngsters on the internet are telling people today).
2.) Grand River Hot-Rod Shop
There was also a place off of Vernor Highway that sold them in the 1950s until it was torn down. I remember making tracings of the openings for the carbs as I waited for my dad to do some business there.
And I am told a few places in Southern California once sold Caribbean dual quad manifolds or even complete set-ups. But that was a long, long time ago. There used to be a complete Caribbean intake that sat on display outside of the service manager's office at Earle C. Anthony in downtown L.A. And a hot-rod shop in Bell had one for sale. There were others, I'm sure.
Anyway, there were indeed a few of these manifolds around once upon a time. Obviously some were sold loose and never on a car. But as the years go by, this stuff gets forgotten faster and faster and further and further.
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