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Randy Berger

PT Boat

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And it's powered by three Packard engines....... (although not as strong as a P-51 which only had ONE Packard engine.)

Thought we might find this interesting since it is Packard powered.http://videos2view.net/PT658.htm

Posted on: 2013/5/29 21:46

Dale Rhinehart

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My Rifle instructor in High school was a Captain on a PT Boat in the South Pacific. He use to talk once in a while about the Boat an the Crew. He also would make the comment about the "Big Packard V12 engines and how the Motor man would always remind him, "Give them time to warm, before you go, full bore with my motors Cap." Mr Enterline saw a lot of action, and Talked about how General MacArthur was "whisked away" on a PT Boat.

Posted on: 2013/5/30 6:07

Guscha

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Randy, thanks for refreshing our memory. Below a cutaway of PT-658, click to enlarge. Did you know, that some of them have been delivered to CCCP? The Soviet affinity for Packard is a never-ending story.

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Posted on: 2013/5/30 6:21

The story of ZIS-110, ZIS-115, ZIL-111 & Chaika GAZ-13 on www.guscha.de

Randy Berger

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Thanks for the detailed cutaway Guscha. These wooden boats did yeoman duty in the Pacific and many were also given to South Korea.

Posted on: 2013/5/30 6:28

BlackBeerd

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520 mile range carrying 3000 gallons of fuel is .17 mpg or about 915 feet.

Posted on: 2013/5/30 7:37

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su8overdrive

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Magnificent as the PT boats looked skipping over the waves at full chat, Black Beerd above sums it well. An ex-Navy friend says the PT boats often ran out of gas after sortees
and had to be towed back to base by destroyers.

Posted on: 2013/5/30 16:32

Guscha

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... often ran out of gas after sortees
and had to be towed back to base by destroyers.

That's easily conceivable. How to get 100-octane aviation fuel on the high sea.

Posted on: 2013/5/30 16:47

The story of ZIS-110, ZIS-115, ZIL-111 & Chaika GAZ-13 on www.guscha.de

RogerDetroit

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I was lucky to have rested my hand on a 4M-2500 earlier today out at the Packard Proving Grounds. We have one on display there courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society.

Damn, I never get tired of seeing that Packard script logo cast into those valve covers.

You too can rest your hand on this monster if you come to the 2013 PAC National Meet during the last week of June.

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