Re: Hood ornaments on 120 coupes

Posted by Larry51 On 2014/6/23 20:51:06

Hi Garrett. I'm not very knowledgeable on the 30's Packards, others will no doubt provide you with more definitive answers. It's a vast subject, so by no means should you feel that you are ignorant about anything to do with these cars!

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With my limited knowledge of 120's, here are brief answers to your questions:

1936-39's would have hood ornaments. Virtually all Packards had them. There were often choices and variations also. Some "more expensive' models had a 'more opulent' hood ornament, and sometimes the customer could upgrade theirs before they purchased their car.

I will let someone else provide the detail on engines, but I think there were sixes and straight 8's available those years. Packards also had cars fitted with V12's but as far as I know these were not in the 120's.

Clocks were usually standard, and radios were generally an option that could be added.

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