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That finishing of the trunk to hide the AC unit behind a lid is a nice touch.

With that unit location and flat positioning of those front vents on the console I'd almost guess that they are actually return air with a duct in the tunnel to the unit and not cold air supply. That would make for nice air circulation for the front passengers in a car with a trunk unit. The important persons in the rear would still get the major benefit but at least the poor driver wouldn't suffer as much -- not that they seemed to worry much about the chauffeur's comfort on earlier models. Of course if there is a divider window it would still need a front supply but it is an interesting thought.

I'm afraid we won't come closer.

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Have you ever recognized this mysterious power that forces people to do things people usual don't want to do?


source: Modern Mechanix, 01/1935

If one mentioned "Packard" in public, then it takes just a couple of minutes that people start literally to remember a deal between Roosevelt and Stalin, White House and Kremlin or Detroit and Moscow. I wonder how it works. And how fast. Thereafter silence forever and ever. Fire and forget! It looks as if we're a part of a telekinetically steered race, arranged in an unspoken agreement.

Take for example Hemmings article "From Detroit to Moscow, L.A. to Ravensburg: the XP-8 Le Sabre's direct design descendants", published Oct 2nd, 2015 at 8.00 am.

Two hours later at 10.00 am it says "If I remember correctly The Soviet Union had a deal with Packard to buy its old tooling..."

"...Russian automaker ZIS, the one best known in the States for building suspiciously Packard-looking cars, put together the cyclopean ZIS-112 in 1951. Its experimental V-8..."

Is it the sound of words like "Russian" and "Moscow" which release hormones? How could Uncle Joe copy a Packard V8 in 1951?
The ZIS-112 was equipped with a prewar inline-engine.


quotation source: blog.hemmings.com

Gerd,

Looking though the Hemmings article containing the ZIS-112 photo also came across a customised Packard, this one!

Wipers at sonic speed

Sometimes I'm torn between speechlessness with admiration and speechlessness with terror but not seldom just speechless when looking at results of Soviet ingenuity. Necessity begets ingenuity (but longtime-necessity drives to insanity).
Please find below a picture of an older Moskvitch. I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count. What kind of power drives its wipers?

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Guessing, hand power via a crank?

Wind mill, clock work or pedal.

Tom

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In 1924 Packard furnished the Single Six with manually operated wipers. 60 years later I met the same system in Russian military trucks, designed in the 1950s, built until 1994. Mal, I believe that not even a Polonium-dependent Russian (all in jest) could reach the headlined "sonic speed" via crank.
Try it again, please.


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Clock work!!!! Tom (Rocky46), very creative but unfortunately wrong. Same goes for wind mill and pedal. Give it another try!

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Gearbox?

Tom