Re: Amazing Packard Photos
Posted by Gary On 2013/2/7 7:40:37
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Absolutely not OD!...downhill with a good strong tailwind with that car full of Vanderbilts, Duponts, Rockefellers, Morgans and Carnegies all watchin' instead of ridin'...no wonder they topped 6000 pounds...
In all seriousness,I have no idea what kind of speed a car like a '34 1104 could achieve but I ran across a couple of articles stating that Packard provided a "modest" top speed of 85 MPH for the majority of their full bodied cars built in the early to mid 30's however it was reported that speeds of 100 MPH and over could be achieved with all of them.
Then there is this interesting tid-bit of information that I ran across...
Packard's engine geniuses were Connelius Van Ranst, and Col. Jesse Vincent. Vincent lived on Windmill Pointe Drive, in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., and had a boatwell as part of his house. Packard engines for PT boats were tested from his pier, in the Detroit river during WW II. Packard built a prototype front drive car in 1930, using the V12 engine that saw production starting in 1932. Testing of the car on Packard's Utica Mich. test track saw 120 MPH speeds. Van Ranst had the engine detuned for producton.
Detuned for production...Hmmmmmmm...
Owen_Dyneto wrote:
Gator, you are joking, right?
No stock Packard Twelve with factory body ever got anywhere near 120 MPH.
Absolutely not OD!...downhill with a good strong tailwind with that car full of Vanderbilts, Duponts, Rockefellers, Morgans and Carnegies all watchin' instead of ridin'...no wonder they topped 6000 pounds...
In all seriousness,I have no idea what kind of speed a car like a '34 1104 could achieve but I ran across a couple of articles stating that Packard provided a "modest" top speed of 85 MPH for the majority of their full bodied cars built in the early to mid 30's however it was reported that speeds of 100 MPH and over could be achieved with all of them.
Then there is this interesting tid-bit of information that I ran across...
Packard's engine geniuses were Connelius Van Ranst, and Col. Jesse Vincent. Vincent lived on Windmill Pointe Drive, in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., and had a boatwell as part of his house. Packard engines for PT boats were tested from his pier, in the Detroit river during WW II. Packard built a prototype front drive car in 1930, using the V12 engine that saw production starting in 1932. Testing of the car on Packard's Utica Mich. test track saw 120 MPH speeds. Van Ranst had the engine detuned for producton.
Detuned for production...Hmmmmmmm...
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