Re: Help Identifying Cowl
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The smaller race car (on the left in the photo of two cars) is, I believe, the Packard 122, built by a Packard engineering team that included Robert De Palmer for the 1923 Indy race. As I recall the team of 3 cars qualified well but then failed early during the race due largely to very limited development and testing time available because of holdups in the project.
I understand that after the race Packard were so disillusioned by the results that they canned the project and destroyed all their records. Now all that remains is a collection of press reports & photos. There is quite a lot of info on this car available on the web if you do a search and the link below is a good one to start with. http://www.king-of-the-boards.com/Packard%20International%20DePalma%20and%20Packard.pdf We will have to stay in touch as I am also planning a 1930s 'speedster' project. All the best. Matt.
Posted on: 2010/1/24 21:15
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Re: Help Identifying Cowl
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Sounds like a great project to me! Here in Australia we can race in such cars so long as they use only pre-war parts & technology and represent a car or group of cars that ran in the preiod. It is called Group K and has resulted in the construction/preservation of many prewar 'specials' including the 1927 Amilcar/Willys special that I race and my fathers S/C Willys special.
Posted on: 2010/1/26 18:02
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