Re: The Greatest Packards of Them All

Posted by Ross On 2022/6/25 21:15:06

Spent a fascinating hour this morning with the book reading a report by William Zechel, who started in Packard engineering in '32 about the philosophy, goals, details and challenges in designing the all new chassis for the stillborn '57 models. It was like attending a first class design review like I knew when designing production machinery for Black and Decker. And it was complete with many detailed photos of the chassis's new features and design innovations. Any engineer with a bent for history would love it. Despite the company's faltering and peril a lot of dedicated people, many who had been there in the high classic era, were laboring their guts out to come up with something really special for '57.

So if you want to learn about that and much more, you can.

But if your chief joy is constructing reductio ad ridiculum arguments please keep them to yourself. Oh, and there are contemporary roadtests of the 55-56 cars included.