Re: Best of its day?

Posted by Loyd Smith On 2011/3/2 9:44:15

Thanks, PackardV8.

Simple and direct partial solution. Makes perfect sense since I'm not road racing in the Packard much. Any suggestions as to brand, model#? Your advice has saved me a ton of money and trouble several times in the past.

55PackardGuy - you're observation of the T/Ls performance on dirt/gravel roads parallels my own impressions but, even on paved (rough) roads when it does tend to lean in corners it seems, to me anyway, that it's a little quicker to recover control than most of the cars (mentioned in my last post) of the day that I drove. I only ever lost the Packard in a corner a couple of times and never had both rear driving wheels come off the ground at the same time as seemed (again, to me) to be more prevalent in some of the GM cars of the day with stock suspensions.

I can see the difficulties in setting the T/L up for circle track driving but, for general purpose, everyday use, it always seemed to come closer to the safety mark for general use by the public than any of the American standard suspensions of its time period that I ever drove.