Re: Back to PI.com...Big Kev's move & also my bucket list dream... possible?

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2017/2/8 18:51:58

But you need to wait some more years before those of us WHO WERE THERE die off, before you can get away with that !

Well my friend, I WAS there! I was driving Packards when Studebaker-Packard was still building them. My first Ultramatic was a 1950 Custom 8 bought in 1959 and I drove it to in excess of 100,000 miles; bought my '54 Patrician (w/o Gear-Start) about 1965 and drove it to well over 100,000 miles. I didn't have a lot of $ in those years so I did all the maintenance work myself. So I'm speaking with plenty of experience with these vehicles - those Ultramatics were plenty reliable.

Perhaps Ross Miller with chime in when he returns from Kenya, he rebuilds Ultramatics for a living and from my conversations with him his experiences with them behind the in-line 8s is pretty much in agreement with mine regarding ruggedness and reliability.