Re: 1956 Packard (maybe 1955?) questions

Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2010/1/12 22:32:58

Bendix developed an electronic fuel injection in the fifties and offered it to various car makers. Chrysler Corporation and Nash were the only ones to take them up.

In 1958 Chrysler and Nash were slated to get the new system and a handful of cars were actually produced but they killed it because of reliability issues.

So, it is possible that a Packard V8 was equipped with Bendix injection as an experiment but never left the proving ground.The Bendix injection and V8 Packard were both available at the same time.

Whether such a car escaped the proving ground I don't know but it seems unlikely. But then unlikely things do happen sometimes.

If such a car exists it would be on the top ten list of rarest Packards if not at the top.