Re: Packard caravan 1955, Valdosta Ga.

Posted by Let the ride decide On 2012/3/8 19:43:32

FINALLY, I found it!

The VHS tape is labeled "The New 1955 Packard Engine Promo". At the end it says "Packard Master Motor Builder". It is a transfilm production.

It starts off showing the V8 on a dianometer. It shows the blocks being worked on in Utica. It shows the precision that the motor went through. Balancing the crankshaft, checking the crankshaft bearing, etc.

It shows Bill Graves, James Nance, Ray Powers, Jessie Vincent, many engineers, and shows blueprints being produced for the motor.

It then shows the car racing around the track. It has aerial shots of the car flying around the track. You see the Linburg hanger, the timing tower, the Utica plant, as the car goes on, and on.

HOWEVER, it is not the car in Roger's pictures.

It has the correct hood ornament, no hood strap! No damaged windshield. It shows the car in rain, and both windshield wipers working. It shows the Patrician at the top of the track in the curves! It shows inside view of one on the drivers taking it around the track. It shows the changing of the drivers. The one at the wheel leaves from the front passenger door. The new driver enters from the rear passenger side door, and crawls over the front seat, and takes off. The AAA man is using a checkered flag to show the end of the run, not the white one in Roger's photo. It shows the 1952 Indianapolis race winner driving it. It says the AAA inspectors impounded the car for analysis.

The support crew are wearing the checked hats in the film.

It mirrors the pictures in the "Packard News"

So how can that be?