Re: Interchangeability of parts between Rolls Royce and Packard V8's??

Posted by fred kanter On 2011/5/7 22:47:37

There are people who love to believe myths and conspiracy theories. Witness the recent "Obama born in Kenya" dust-up. It is possible to use Nash 196 cu in six parts to overhaul a Rolls engine, but it would never run and nothing would fit. You use the two empty cylinders for ash trays.

Roosevelt did give Packards as a gift to Stalin , I believe, and either those Packards or others were used a samples by them to build the Packard looking cars. Nobody sold the dies to Russia, by the way.

I got the story from the horses mouth on the suspension. I owned a '47 Bentley, same chassis as a Rolls,and noted the identical torque arm ball as used on the Packard and the near copy of the Safety-Flex suspension. By the way I don;t see anything on it that was patentable.

AT the Packard meet in Milwaukee in '72?? I had a long talk with Irwin Weiss, Chief Engineer on the 120 chassis. Told him about the Safety- Flex look-alike on the Rolls/Bentley. During the war Rolls engineers were at Packard to consult on the Merlin engine production. Weiss' comment "I wondered what those guys were doing over at chassis engineering so often"