Re: Lead on Four Packard Twelves.
Posted by Tim Cole On 2022/3/31 16:10:42
If you think that situation is bad, I knew someone who bought 35 Packard Eight town car with less than 8,000 miles on it. All you had to do was dust it off because it lived in a heated garage in Manhattan.
He also had a 35 low mileage Eight convertible victoria. Oh, but he wanted a Twelve so he cut up the town car for the chassis. He cut up the Victoria for the body. Everything else was scrapped. What he ended up with was a piece of junk because it had town car rear springing and Packard Eight front springing. It drove like garbage, but it ran great because I did the tuning. I saw a magazine clip where they stated - "It starts instantly hot or cold."
Things like that are why Turnquist cried the blues about town cars being cut up in his book. Once upon a time there were a lot of 25-32 Packard town cars. Almost all gone now.
Duesenberg town cars have faired a lot better. That supercharged town car above with the raked windshield is Rollston at their finest.
Put the picture below on a Supercharged Duesenberg chassis and you have it.
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1934 Packard Twelve All-Weather Town Car with custom coachwork by Rollston.jpg (132.51 KB)
He also had a 35 low mileage Eight convertible victoria. Oh, but he wanted a Twelve so he cut up the town car for the chassis. He cut up the Victoria for the body. Everything else was scrapped. What he ended up with was a piece of junk because it had town car rear springing and Packard Eight front springing. It drove like garbage, but it ran great because I did the tuning. I saw a magazine clip where they stated - "It starts instantly hot or cold."
Things like that are why Turnquist cried the blues about town cars being cut up in his book. Once upon a time there were a lot of 25-32 Packard town cars. Almost all gone now.
Duesenberg town cars have faired a lot better. That supercharged town car above with the raked windshield is Rollston at their finest.
Put the picture below on a Supercharged Duesenberg chassis and you have it.
Attach file:
1934 Packard Twelve All-Weather Town Car with custom coachwork by Rollston.jpg (132.51 KB)
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