Re: 1955 Caribbean original engine ?

Posted by HH56 On 2015/5/30 10:45:14

Another agree here. It is nice to have the original engine but with the way things were being done after Packards demise who is to say it is not a dealer installed engine -- and it is the right size for the car. There is a Stude bulletin notifying dealers there were a number of new 352 engines available and even suggesting dealers could save the customer money and make a sale if a new engine was needed by replacing any 56 374 engines with one of the 352s. That kind of indicates how concerned with matching numbers the official policy was. The dealer might have had a wrecked car or sourced the engine to save the customer (or himself) even more money.

It is like the 55-6 AC. With the number of ARA trunk units installed and being called factory it begs the question of what is factory -- the in dash unit that I would call factory or the Packard sanctioned dealer installed trunk unit sold with the car new so the owner would very likely have considered it factory.