Re: How bad WERE the '55 Packards?

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/12/23 23:29:16

Several reliable people have reported that Hudson stored engine blocks outside

If you go back to the very earliest days of the automobile in the USA, many engine blocks were bought from France which was considered to have the best casting techniques. Often these and then later those cast here were "aged" by foundries by storing them outdoors; supposedly the aging somehow was thought to relieve stresses or improve grain structure or something like that. I have no idea how long this practice lasted for and who the major proponents of it were.