Re: What is this?

Posted by 55PackardGuy On 2014/11/30 21:29:29

It's still amazing to me that Packard was even messing around with vacuum wipers in the '50s. This, from a company that was electrically oriented from its founding? Can't understand it. If I recall correctly, they even went to electric wipers for a while and then back to vacuum for some reason.

Especially strange is staying with vacuum wipers in '55 and '56, in spite of all the other advancements in those cars: all-electric pushbutton gear selectors... and vacuum wipers? They must've procured a surplus of those vacuum units somewhere and needed to get rid of them.

The topper was compromising the OIL PUMP in '55 and '56 in order to provide a bit of vacuum boost-- which was never sufficient under acceleration anyway.