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Gday all, On the subject of RHD and how do we Aussies manage to drive em. I should point out that Packards and most other US cars were RHD until around 1910. So the answer is that we learned to drive from you Americans. Is it true that the US went to LHD because Henry Ford hated the English? (am I allowed to say that?) best regards Peter Toet

If you are suggesting that you did in the back seat of YOUR Packard what we did in the back seat of MY Packard, you are a naughty boy. VERY naughty. Shame on you. For shame.

What a naughty...naughty bunch we have in here.....why...I bet this "Eric" character is the kind of guy who would have APPROVED of the SIDE MOUNT MIRROR edition of March-April '83; the one where photographs of a very pretty girl wearing only a smile were used as part of the "pitch" to get the members of the SO. CAL. REGION of the CCCA interested in supporting the "Year Of Manufacture" license plate bill (my doing that, as Editor, got me thrown off the Board....!)

Now - as far as a turbo-prop. type power-plant to give my Lake Amphib. more "punch"....

Eric..you are "ON"...let's DO it! The present motor is a Lycoming I0-360 ("dash six" series) that I have installed a turbo-charger on, but that still isn't enough.

I think your idea of a turbine motor is excellent. When do we start (oh...I forgot - given the expense, you will have to adopt me first...so I can say "daddy...I need a larger allowance".....

Wow Pete, I wish I'd had seen that pic that you are referring to, as there's nothing more beautiful than a fully naked, well-proportioned woman laying on the fender of a '30s car!

As for the turboprop idea, well, there's no way I'm going to adopt you, as I don't have a spare bedroom!

And on a side note, I honestly thought you would be more apt to put a Packard Merlin in her! I figured you were more like me, a little on the "sentimental" side!

You werent listening. The young model we used to pose around my Twelve, to promote the "Year Of Manufacture" license plate law, in that edition of our SIDE MOUNT MIRRR ( So. Calif Region CCCA newsletter) was NOT naked. She was wearing a flower in her hair, AND had on a particularly fetching smile...

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Forget the Packard's, I want one of those!

Ok Mal, I will trade you a truck full of flowers for your Packards! DEAL!