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At one point, wasn't the idea of a V-12 based on the new V-8 proposed as another way to differentiate Packard from its competitors?

Was this just an engineering "pipe dream", or was a prototype ever actually made?

I think Packard53 is our resident expert on the '55-'56 V12, John, oh John, where you at?

BH knows a lot about them too.... ;)

No prototype, Today we'd say it was "photoshopped", back then just a bit of whimsical artistic license.

The internet insures urban Packard legends never die!

thnx, jack vines

I am doing this off the top of my head right now. When plans were being made for the 55 & 56 Packards a V12 engine was being considered, but the tooling costs for a V12 engine then would have been $750,000. That cost was deamed to expensive and the idea dropped.


John F. Shireman

A seller recently offered some Ultramatic tools for auction on eBay, ending each item description with the following line:

"Not for use on the 1965 Packard V12."

I hope that comment, which should be taken as tongue-in-cheek, isn't causing any confusion. There was no such car - just a bogus article that was rushed into publication without sufficient fact-checking some years ago.

Suffice it to say that article was the source of a lot of controvery and the butt of many jokes. I even photoshopped a Patrician Twelve, back then - not only for a laugh, but to show how easy it was to phake a photo at by that time.

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