Re: Did Chevy consider Packard V8 BB Design?

Posted by Loyd Smith On 2008/10/4 20:18:34

The mileage that I get with my '55 Pat 352 is about equal to that that I got with all of the Cadillacs that I drove between about 1968 and 1986. I always told people that they got about 13 mpg whether or not they were tuned up, all four tire were flat, whatever. Every one of them averaged right at 13 mpg combined city/highway driving. The Patrician is about the same. It gets between 10 and 11 mpg in town with the A/C running in Orlando traffic and between 15 and 16 on the highway (as long as you keep it under 75). Almost two years of keeping track of the mileage has given me almost the exact same figures that I got from all of the Caddys over about an 18 year period. Appears to be about the same as any other big V8 in a comparably sized car between the mid-1950s and mid 1980s.