Re: my new 49

Posted by Ross On 2009/9/23 21:54:42

Love your new tub. You will have lots of fun with that.
The brown-painted instrument bezels, the stainless arch on the door panels, and the lack of stainless on the door uppers tell me that it's an Eight. Your model number would be 2292. You will have one of Packard's best engines, the 288. That engine had a relatively short stroke for the era--3.75" so it doesn't particularly mind being revved if you need to peel the paint off the door of your neighbor's 48 Oldsmobile in a grudge match.

It's not hard to make these into reliable drivers so just keep chipping away at your "issues".