Re: Was this typical of new 1950's cars?

Posted by Muir On 2014/9/4 23:19:22

I've just been reading a bunch of popular mechanics magazines from the late 40's to early fifties with the road tests, and interestingly enough the Packards rated highly in quality, all the car manufacturers seemed to have there issues (including the tri-five chevy's: They don't appear to have been quite as trouble-free as the chevy guys think...) a new lincoln owner had had three 430" powerplants replaced in the first two months...

re: the Packard with the receipts, when it came over to NZ the car was the most extraordinarily rusty car I've ever seen, the frame had actually give way into two halves because of the rust.

In this particular case, apart from the ultramatic and the levelizer switch there wasn't any apparent with anything else with the car - my 1960 Imperial Crown only had one window motor operational, both quarterlite window motors were dead, the seat only moved in one direction, odd transmission behaviour etc etc. With my '56 Packard everything works a treat, and it'd been dumped 40 years ago (the aluminium levelizer case had actually broken in half).

The Title shows the owner registered it in June '56 and the last number plate issued for the car (DY9942) was in '62 which was when it was parked up until my brother bought the car a few years ago.

Muir