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There is a 6-cylinder engine for sale on FB Marketplace. The cylinder head has both Packard and White cast into it. As a (mostly) postwar guy, I'm ignorant about this. I do know Packard built 6-cylinder taxicabs in the 22nd and 23rd series, but I thought for Packard, rather than White? Did Packard provide engines for White? If so, what were the their uses?

Compelled by curiosity--again. Link follows.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/833215995613255/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A7610d4d4-5f3e-4cbd-b124-2667199dbd88

Packard sold engines to White. Somewhere here are a couple of threads about it in the distance past.

Packard's 245 ci 6-cylinder engine was sold to White for use in the small cab-over-engine series. Well documented in Neal's book on Packard engines.

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Of course. I remember those trucks. Never realized that they had Packard engines.

From spring 1947 to January 1951, Packard also produced 1,865 marine versions of their 245-ci six, and from 1947 through 1950, 1,525 of their thirsty 356-ci inline eight, which went into 25' to 46' Chris Craft cabin cruisers, the six into 17' and other Chris Craft, Hacker, Higgins runabouts.

Packard marketed these marine units using their 12,103 2,490-ci War II patrol torpedo and Army rescue V-12 boat engine production for glamour. The PT boat engines were gasoline, instead of Diesel as Germany's bigger, faster, longer ranged Schnellboots ("Fast boats," or E-boats) since we didn't have a shortage of gasoline, only rubber, so this simplified logistics. The PT engines were gas hogs, often having to be towed back to base after sortees by destroyers.

There were ten racing IM-245 Rs, and if anyone has accurate knowledge about their specific internal mods, this would be interesting.

Thanks to Wikipedia for the above marine conversion 245 & 356 production figures. Please send Wikipedia a donation if you haven't, as well as PackardInfo, because we all use both.