Re: New-to-me Packard V-8 trivia!

Posted by Dan On 2009/12/12 1:05:30
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What I would like to know is what happened to the Packard engine tooling. If Studebaker couldn't use it why didn't they sell it? A truck manufacturer could have used it, the way LaFrance and Seagrave used Pierce Arrow and Auburn 12s long after the car companies went out of business.

I can't believe a practically new engine factory was sold for scrap. But what happened to it?



I have wondered about this ever since I first became interested in the '55-'56 Packards!

From all I've read, it was a "modern" engine produced on a state-of-the-art assembly line.

Did no one see any value in continuing to produce them??

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