Re: Packard 446/473 V12

Posted by 58L8134 On 2015/2/4 18:24:42

Hi

Both the 320 and 385 ci straight eights were still the old separate crankcase/cylinder block build method from the 1920's when mono-bloc method was becoming the norm by the mid-1930's. Oddly enough, the 445/473 twelve and the 120 engines are a monobloc builds.

For whatever reason, management didn't immediately follow-up with a monobloc straight eight replacement for the Senior line in 1936-37 as one might expect. That would happen with the 1940 160/180 356 ci engine.

Steve