Re: A Packard Panther on the Street...
Posted by Leeedy On 2020/4/11 15:29:28
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Let the ride decide wrote:
Ok,
Leeedy or ECA,
Was the PU made from a Patrician, or a 400?
Did it use a Packard engine?
Twin Ultramatic, or standard overdrive?
Thank you for posting the interesting picture.
You are welcome. I have thousands of Packard photos I took back in the 1960s through 1980s or so. I even took a couple hundred in the Grand Blvd. Packard Plant when it was still pretty much in a piece and operating with small businesses. I was allowed to roam around in there pretty much at will. Even was given my own Packard ID badge-which I still have. At one point, the federal government also had an installation there.
And SoCal in the 1970s was a Packard Paradise! Tons of photos from back then. I kept Kodak and film developers in business! Even Polaroid.
The Packard Doctor pickup was made (as I recall) from a Four Hundred. And yes, of course it had a Packard V-8 in it. The transmission varied. This is one of the fellows who taught me how to rebuild Ultramatics way back then. So he wasn't afraid of Ultramatics and didn't run them down all the time as some did. He rebuilt LOTS of them. And they worked.
I do recall at one point the pickup had an Ultramatic. But another time when I saw it there was what we used to call a "stick and over" installed (manual transmission with overdrive).This Post was from: https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=221132