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vicpick58 wrote:
I once owned a 55 Clipper Custom Constellation hard top. It had the 352 engine with a four barrel carb, I don't remember if it was Rochester or Carter, but it definitely had the air cleaner with the scoops on the sides like the senior cars.
I later owned a 56 400 and a 56 Pat and they both had the same kind of air cleaner as my 55 Clipper Custom, only one of them was chromed instead of black.
Hey vicpick, welcome to the forum. Generally, I think the Clipper Custom and Constellation had the dual scoop air cleaner. Not sure, though. They were the closest Clippers got to the Senior Packards, and I suppose they got this little feature as a bit of underhood dressup. Both of the '55 Clipper Customs we had were equipped with the dual scoop type. I believe this unit carried an AC logo on it. Air cleaners are mostly a commodity item that I believe are shopped around.
Can anyone tell me if the single snorkel unit had a paper element, or was it also oil bath? BTW, Craig has a pretty neat how-to on this Packard Panther site for retro-fitting a paper element to the dual scoop version.
Funny, funny anecdote about the "Chevy" air cleaner. I bet those things are as scarce as SBC engines.
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