Re: The Packard Request

Posted by HH56 On 2016/9/16 16:13:08

The Nash All Weather Eye unit has been a question. It was a highly regarded and compact unit so it would have been a nice choice. Don't believe it was available in 53 so that could explain Packard purchasing the GM unit but in 55-6 with all the supposed cooperation between AMC and Packard kind of wonder why Packard chose to build their own instead of another purchase.

Maybe cost or Nash didn't want to sell it or possibly the integration into the Packard would have been cumbersome without a major redesign of the firewall on the old body. As it was the Packard built unit bolted onto a non AC dash and if AC was wanted only a few small holes were added. The Nash unit being mostly in the engine compt maybe needed too much work to fit in the dash.

Lots of questions and few answers.