So glad that a beauty like this was never scrapped! And many were! We are all fortunate to witness the cars of yester year, and (today) all cars lack the character, style and panache. Think about getting the radiator re-chromed, and then offer this beauty for sale by a good Auction House in the USA. That's why it is better as a left-hand drive vehicle. The car will last another 60 years. A testament to the care of those hard-working Americans that had a sense of pride in building something so beautiful.
I could see the charm in a 70-72 Challenger, but I got partial to never having to fool with cars after the 72 Harley debacle, which was CONSTANT fooling with. It took it from.Chicago to Sturgis, SD. 900 miles took me like 4 days! lol It was a pain. I like stuff that starts right off :) to live with daily. I got a GoldWing after that. Best decision I ever made. No trouble in 15 years. And I rode it everywhere, snow and all. if I'd known the Wing would have been so great, I never would have bothered with the stupid Harley. they were made in Ohio back.in 1994 :)
My fathers uncle worked for Packard and he also owned one .They would visit my dad in the Ottawa Valley where roads were nothing but cowtrails.One time he recalled they took it up to 60 mph , the fastest he had ever been in his life.As an engineer for Packard his uncle worked on Americanizing the Rolls Royce/ Packard Merlin v12 engine for mass production.
I just love Packards. I always have. A friend of my Dad's was the Packard dealer in the 50s. You would not have believed the old cars what were in for service in the shop.
Man I hope my ‘27 Buick starts this Spring, it will be her first start since 2004! Garage find after the prev owner passed away and his widow held onto the cars! We can’t wait to start her and get her grill into the wind again!
The only reason an old car can do this and a new car can't is just because an old car doesn't have computerized systems that corrode and go bad from sitting. The engines made today are probably better made then they were back then. Certainly a lot more precision made.
@@zesty2023 the progress that has been made in machine tools would certainly lead one to believe that but it's not exactly uncommon knowledge where I live that the engines built today by a certain Japanese car company here in the US are not made with as much care to fit (particularly crankshaft bearings) as they were in the late 80's and early 90's. Point being, not all old stuff is better than new, but not all new is better than old. Car companies are profit driven and if they feel they can make more profit by making "sloppier" engines, they will, regardless if that was in 1934 or yesterday.
@@zesty2023 The only thing that has improved since then is metallurgy. The theories behind manufacturing modern engines bear little regard for past the warranty period, whereas back then they were designed and built by hand to last as long as possible
Absolutely beautiful.... And the reason they don't make them like that anymore is....... Because repair garages and mechanics would go out of business and starve... Quality engineering.. thank you for sharing your awesome video 👍👍👌👌🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
"Gave"? Begged more like it. Then Packard greatly improved the engine. Ford built large numbers but NOT to the original RR design...Ford improved it, too.
@@DavidSmith-sb2ix Nothing could have saved them at that point. The "tastes" of the county were changing. Studebaker, the oldest vehicle maker, was doomed, too. They were good cars and used to have a loyal following. I don't know how our Packard Caribbean would feel to me now, but in its day, it was wonderful. Packard was the standard of the world. It may be a myth, but it used to be said that even Bugatti owned one.
I've always wondered how they could come out of WW2 flush with cash and be gone 12 years later. In my alternate universe they put what they learned making all those Merlins to use and beat Cadillac to a high-compression OHV V8 in 1948. From the looks of their product, they just didn't foresee how the public wanted fantastic cars in the 50s, not just good, reliable ol' appliances.
Actually it was because Ford, trying to pump and promote his own aero engine turned them down and Rolls-Royce was desperate. Rolls-Royce and in fact Britain itself was hugely fortunate that Packard took on the contract to produce Merlins as Packard ended up mass producing a substantially improved and much better quality version of the Merlin engine than Rolls-Royce itself.
@@porscha901 Martmns … my comment wasn't meant to start a pissing contest. the fact of the matter is that Ford might have mass produced the Merlin but at a substantial reduction in quality. Packard was more than able to meet Rolls-Royce quality standards. … and after Britain stood alone against the depredations inflicted by the Luftwaffe for more than a year and a half (something which most Americans neither acknowledge nor fully understand), I would wager dollars against doughnut holes that Rolls Royce engineers didn't let their egos stand in the way of incorporating Packard's improvements into their own production models. people who live in a war zone tend to want that war to be over as quickly as possible. the fact is this, gentlemen: Germany was such a military powerhouse, no one nation could bring them down as rapidly as the Allies did by working together. take away either the Spitfire OR the Mustang, and the war would have dragged on longer than absolutely necessary.... and with the deployment of the Me-262, the outcome might not have been as certain.
About 25,000 Rolls Royce Merlin engines were made at Trafford Park, Manchester by Ford in the UK. They were made to new specifications- as initially Ford said they could not make the engines and the British Air Ministry went nuts. Ford at Trafford Park then qualified this by saying they could not make the Merlin to such sloppy tolerances. R R then supplied Ford with new specs and to quote Sir Stanley Hooker- one of the most famous men after Rolls and Royce in the company's history( who designed the Merlin supercharger and a host of jet engines such as the Olympus and Pegasus for Bristol before returning to RR), said: "once the great Ford factory at Manchester started production, Merlins came out like shelling peas at the rate of 400 per week. And very good engines they were too, yet never have I seen mention of this massive contribution which the British Ford company made to the build-up of our air forces." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Trafford_Park_Factory
I had a '52 that had been in storage for 5 years in Christchurch. Fresh fuel and 12 volts the flathead straight 8 backfired and with lots of white smoke just purred away. When the smoke cleared the white wall behind her was a huge mess after the backfire. Wheels off and brakes checked, then we drove her back to Auckland.
34 is a great year. It has the coolest lines and curves. May say sporty, even sexy! I also love the chisel points on the headlamps and the little runners on the fenders. 33s were very similar. All done right, it will be worth a fortune!🤑
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 It boggles the mind how they came out of WW2 flush with cash, and were gone what, about 12 years later? With all they learned making those Merlins, you'd think they would've come out with a line of OHV engines in 1949 to keep up with Cadillac.
That's a 12 sided Australian Half Dollar balanced on edge, a top the engine on the valve cover . I have a stack of them on the top of my desk right now and beautiful chunks of coinage they are!
those old cars run forever, besides I don't care if it doesn't get great gas milage, I would drive a beautiful car like this daily, I myself work on old cars and if you really understand them it's pretty easy to breathe life back into them
"Ach du lieber, mein schatz"!!! Wowie wow wow! What a wunnerful car! Love love love those beautiful WHITEWALLS, a thing of the past now! "Gesundheit"!!!
Marmon and Cadillac did build a few V-16s. There were six who made V-12s (in America): Packard, Lincoln, Cadillac, Pierce-Arrow, Franklin, and Auburn. I don't believe that Marmon did.
A tip for starting an engine after it has set for a long time, poor some fresh oil (Marvelous Marv's Mystery oil works great for this) in the normal place and let it sit over night. In the morning, crank the engine with no gas to loosen the sludge and remove excess oil from the cylinders. After cranking for 10 seconds turn on the gas. The engine should start with far less smoke. Add Marv's Mystery Oil to the gasoline tank also to clean ports and jets of gasoline varnish. Take the vehicle on a 5 or 10 mile run. You have now removed excess residue from the top and bottom of the engine. Change the oil and oil filter. This method works for small or large engines. Check the settling bulb for rust and or change the fuel filter.
kaiserbill5711 and big government. Don’t forget that. This video is prime example of when auto manufacturers used to build cars for We The People. Gone are those days
Packard had such great integrity until they began to fade in the early '50s. My father had bought a '37 4 dr sedan with the six cylinder engine. I was very young at the time but could sense he was proud of owning the car. He was a career auto mechanic and appreciated the quality. As for comparing design qualities of then vs now, the whole industry has taken off on a race for survival with so many facets of influence to consider. Liability issues have pressed companies to develop autos that meet buyers standards for safety, etc., not all the governments fault. Irresponsible and unskilled users have had the effect of pushing the industry into something hard to comprehend. It's about the legal aspects now way more than in the 'good old days'.
@@whalesong999 Nowadays it is difficult to distinguish a Chevrolet from a Hyundai. Cars had style in your dad's era. My dad had a Packard that was a late 40's model and looked very unique.
@@jamesdunn9714 Yes, remember the late '40s Packards, very rounded and almost aerodynamic. That, to me, was the end of the classic Packard era. Had a neighbor farmer who bought a new one in the early '50s and they had become quite a showy styled device, kind of garish in style but that was what the industry was going to - late '50s Buicks the most notable in trim excesses to me. Those indeed were the days when the autos had individual character. These newest machines are built to a different spec and to maximize convenience. In some sense that seems appropriate considering the times we live in but there is certainly a sorrow with the changes.
@@whalesong999 I vehemently but respectfully disagree the auto deaths are always the driver's fault. I don't want to.come off rudely, but please read "Still Unsafe at Any Speed" by Brian Chase. He's an automotive litigator. I will give you a personal experience. A Ford mustang was very prone to fishtailing due to solid rear axle. They HAD TO have known. and sold it that was for *decades!* lol I saw a kid, yes, acting stupid with a sudden movement to get off the freeway 4 lanes over. But the fact that the car spun multiple times on fully dry road is ON FORD, not the stupid driver. It was a full freeway. I was right there. It was a miracle no one got hurt. Like Final Destination 2, everyone was too perfectly paced together at 60 mph be normal, so I knew someone was going to do something. It looked like the Blues Brothers road stunt was going to come flying thru. Same car, mid-90s Mustangs. I almost did it myself on fully dry pavement, too. It shouldn't have wanted to spin out. Never had even.an OLD *motorcycle* want to fishtail like that. And who bought the Mustang? Young men and women. Young men are notorious for acting stupid in cars. Did they switch that out for the massive motors? I don't think so... Here's the list of liability issues carmakers KNOWINGLY sold us. All fairly recently, too: 1. Faulty tires/that have failed (tread separation/"eggs" in sidewalls) 2. Air bag failures: not detonating at all, literally decapitating small people/older children. My personal favorite, lol, the shrapnel from normal wear and tear/environment. I have a Dodge Challenger recalled not once, but TWICE. Drive chain, a 6-8 hour repair, and 2 trips for the damned Takata Airbags (driver's side is different than passenger's). I JUST slid under the recall wire with my other car, a 2008 Mercury Sable/Ford Taurus (same thing, pretty much) for the damn air bags. I can assure you, had it blown shrapnel into my face at bullet speed, that wouldn't be my fault, right? The car doesn't even go in the rain to corrode airbag housing in the first place. Continuing: 3. Seat Belt failures. They have been known to completely unspool during an accident. We know this due to how it stretched, or didn't. 4. Seat Back failure. The seats collapsed during an accident. In one case, a child was crushed to death in the back seat of a Ford Escort when her mothers seat back collapsed at barely 30 mph. Which should let have been enough to kill anyone making a safe product. 5. Things like brake failures or gas pedals sticking. 6. Not stupid-proof enough vehicles. I bring you the Ford (Ford, again!) 15-passenger van. Like the Corvair, it has very specific tire pressures. Not the usual 32psi. Something like pretty much flat in the back AND they want they vehicle completely full of gas and loaded down so it doesn't slide out for no reason... You'll remember that church group or large family it might have been that was driving one of these??? Nasty accident. That's not a safe vehicle, I'm sure you'll agree. 7. Things like tall SUVs with short wheelbases that flipped entirely or "tripped," I'd imagine from catching the rim? 7a. There was a safety test where the car was tested for rollovers by turning it upside down and dropping it. They started with I think it was 2 feet. It collapsed right down to the seats. Then, instead of making THE CAR stronger, with simple rollover bars or something, they modify the TEST, not the car. Basically, there isn't a car that can survive being dropped a few inches onto its roof. At least, not from Ford, anyhow... that they KNOW about pretty much ALL of these when they sell them, and NO warning of any kind...well. Sad Mr. Chase has to sue because they figured the 12.00 to fox the Pinto was "cheaper" that the lawsuits for 60+ (usually) younger people and women burning to death after being trapped in the cars. In addition, we have stuff like gas tank problems. I remember cars where the seat belt would have decapitated me had we hit something and I'm 5'6. You couldn't adjust the seat belt height. In the past, they released cars with tons of sharp instruments on the dash, and I'm sure you know about the steering column shishkabob victims, right? You have things like door locks failing and horrible accidents resulting. Very little to none of that are the driver's responsibility. :) Now, even if say, your window was halfway down, you hit and got badly cut (side glass is sharp on most cars, and shatters fairly easily)...how many normal "not car dorks" :) know how much a closed window maintains the structural stability of the whole vehicle? It's not like they TELL US any of this. Example, I think EVERY car should have rollover bars, particularly SUVs and vans. They fail to tell you, you ought to have a fuel tank bladder if possible. A racing harness is better, as we all know. If you've ever been to or drove in the Lemons Races. Maybe I misunderstood, but yeah, apparently the government and lawyers HAVE TO step in when EVERY major carmaker *deliberately* sold cars with dangerous defects with the Pinto excuse. This includes Honda and Toyota, too. We know Ford did. Oh, more than once, I should mention. Crown Vic was basically the Pinto sequel. A number of cops and civilians also burned to death in those cars. Sorry for the novel, but i felt I had to fully explain. It would be a horrible thing to lose your wife or kid for something THEY KNEW ABOUT, sold them anyway, and failed to tell you, as the law and anyone else would see it. Thus the lawsuits. :)
What else can you say? It's a Packard and a 1934 to boot. Fantastic car.
So glad that a beauty like this was never scrapped! And many were! We are all fortunate to witness the cars of yester year, and (today) all cars lack the character, style and panache. Think about getting the radiator re-chromed, and then offer this beauty for sale by a good Auction House in the USA. That's why it is better as a left-hand drive vehicle. The car will last another 60 years. A testament to the care of those hard-working Americans that had a sense of pride in building something so beautiful.
I could see the charm in a 70-72 Challenger, but I got partial to never having to fool with cars after the 72 Harley debacle, which was CONSTANT fooling with.
It took it from.Chicago to Sturgis, SD. 900 miles took me like 4 days! lol It was a pain.
I like stuff that starts right off :) to live with daily. I got a GoldWing after that. Best decision I ever made. No trouble in 15 years. And I rode it everywhere, snow and all.
if I'd known the Wing would have been so great, I never would have bothered with the stupid Harley.
they were made in Ohio back.in 1994 :)
It is so refreshing to see these old beasts coming back to life wow)))
The engineering behind Packard automobiles is truly phenomenal.
What a beautiful car. The body proportions, and those headlights and radiator are awesome.
Packard was the measure of all cars of that era. I think they built the best production cars ever made. That is a beauty!
It is so refreshing to see these old beasts coming back to life :)
Si, El Guapo!
There is nothing like a Packard straight 8, the best built automobile during the 20's & 30's!
I swear I could smell the smoke!! I absolutely enjoyed watching that beautiful Packard fire up after 60 years! Was like watching a birth of sorts!!
The coin balancing tells you how awesome that engine idles !
I can balance a penny on my 33 Essex engine.
He is right they don’t make them like that anymore! I can’t remember a motor so smooth that a coin will balance on its side. Wonderful engineering !
I love Packards. THAT is a real beauty. Thanks fellas.
My fathers uncle worked for Packard and he also owned one .They would visit my dad in the Ottawa Valley where roads were nothing but cowtrails.One time he recalled they took it up to 60 mph , the fastest he had ever been in his life.As an engineer for Packard his uncle worked on Americanizing the Rolls Royce/ Packard Merlin v12 engine for mass production.
A royal beauty worth a kings ransom.
I do antique and vintage outboards. There is always something special about bringing one back into service! Love it. Thanks for the video.
Nothing like experiencing one of these works of art waking from a half century slumber.
american history my father senior in high school what an era
not suprised just happy.thanks for the peek at the packard.
Detroit engineering, craftsmanship and quality.
"Ask the man who owns one" . An absolutely amazing example.
I just love Packards. I always have. A friend of my Dad's was the Packard dealer in the 50s. You would not have believed the old cars what were in for service in the shop.
Your right, they don’t make them like that anymore. Wish they did. Thanks 👍🇺🇸
Sounds so good after all those decades.
Awesome video, amazing old Packard. They were very well known for their quality. I love seeing this kind of stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful machine. Looks as if it found the right home.
Man I hope my ‘27 Buick starts this Spring, it will be her first start since 2004! Garage find after the prev owner passed away and his widow held onto the cars! We can’t wait to start her and get her grill into the wind again!
Is that the widow's grill you are going to get into the wind?
@@johnorford7317 Do you know why cars, and for that matter, ships, have been historically referred to as women? No cheating, don't google.
@@120masterpiece becauase they coast a lot of money, look nice and smell good?
Packards are pure beauty
the old saying, "they don't make them like they used to" certainly holds true here
The only reason an old car can do this and a new car can't is just because an old car doesn't have computerized systems that corrode and go bad from sitting. The engines made today are probably better made then they were back then. Certainly a lot more precision made.
@@zesty2023 the progress that has been made in machine tools would certainly lead one to believe that but it's not exactly uncommon knowledge where I live that the engines built today by a certain Japanese car company here in the US are not made with as much care to fit (particularly crankshaft bearings) as they were in the late 80's and early 90's.
Point being, not all old stuff is better than new, but not all new is better than old. Car companies are profit driven and if they feel they can make more profit by making "sloppier" engines, they will, regardless if that was in 1934 or yesterday.
@@zesty2023 The only thing that has improved since then is metallurgy. The theories behind manufacturing modern engines bear little regard for past the warranty period, whereas back then they were designed and built by hand to last as long as possible
Absolutely beautiful.... And the reason they don't make them like that anymore is....... Because repair garages and mechanics would go out of business and starve... Quality engineering.. thank you for sharing your awesome video 👍👍👌👌🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Created when excellence mattered.
The old girl wants to run...I believe all machines have a personality.
What a beaut and an amazing time capsule! Great job getting her running once again, fellas.
Thanks n good luck.!
What a beautiful find!
Cool video and a Thumbs Up liked.
There was and still is only one Packard....hard to equal the best.
Would love to see this beauty buttoned up and going down the road, fantastic car 👍
What incredible machines .....Packards
If only the British, and the USA I guess, had what it takes to build such proud and fine automobiles today...
If I suspected that was an Aussie accent, the 5 c coin was the giveaway! Beautifully smooth idle.
What a beautiful old car. Such great body lines.
Amazing. After 55 years, I don't even start that easy OR run that smooth!! LOL :D
yeah, but I'm still looking for my '63 Caddy Fleetwood in dark maroon metallic.
Quality quality. No wonder Rolls Royce gave Packard the right to manufacture the Merlin engine and such a shame Packard has gone for ever.
"Gave"? Begged more like it. Then Packard greatly improved the engine. Ford built large numbers but NOT to the original RR design...Ford improved it, too.
Always wanted a Packard someday when I was a kid in the 50s. Too bad they were murdered by Studebaker, ugliest car ever built.
@@DavidSmith-sb2ix Nothing could have saved them at that point. The "tastes" of the county were changing. Studebaker, the oldest vehicle maker, was doomed, too. They were good cars and used to have a loyal following. I don't know how our Packard Caribbean would feel to me now, but in its day, it was wonderful. Packard was the standard of the world. It may be a myth, but it used to be said that even Bugatti owned one.
I've always wondered how they could come out of WW2 flush with cash and be gone 12 years later. In my alternate universe they put what they learned making all those Merlins to use and beat Cadillac to a high-compression OHV V8 in 1948. From the looks of their product, they just didn't foresee how the public wanted fantastic cars in the 50s, not just good, reliable ol' appliances.
@@wholeNwon I didn't know Ford made the Merlin too, thanks!
and now you know the reason Rolls Royce was willing to license the manufacture of their Merlin engines only to Packard.
Actually it was because Ford, trying to pump and promote his own aero engine turned them down and Rolls-Royce was desperate. Rolls-Royce and in fact Britain itself was hugely fortunate that Packard took on the contract to produce Merlins as Packard ended up mass producing a substantially improved and much better quality version of the Merlin engine than Rolls-Royce itself.
Please remember that it was the spitfire that won the war. And it had a British merlin engine in it.
@@porscha901 Martmns … my comment wasn't meant to start a pissing contest. the fact of the matter is that Ford might have mass produced the Merlin but at a substantial reduction in quality. Packard was more than able to meet Rolls-Royce quality standards.
… and after Britain stood alone against the depredations inflicted by the Luftwaffe for more than a year and a half (something which most Americans neither acknowledge nor fully understand), I would wager dollars against doughnut holes that Rolls Royce engineers didn't let their egos stand in the way of incorporating Packard's improvements into their own production models.
people who live in a war zone tend to want that war to be over as quickly as possible. the fact is this, gentlemen: Germany was such a military powerhouse, no one nation could bring them down as rapidly as the Allies did by working together. take away either the Spitfire OR the Mustang, and the war would have dragged on longer than absolutely necessary.... and with the deployment of the Me-262, the outcome might not have been as certain.
Yes exactly
About 25,000 Rolls Royce Merlin engines were made at Trafford Park, Manchester by Ford in the UK. They were made to new specifications- as initially Ford said they could not make the engines and the British Air Ministry went nuts. Ford at Trafford Park then qualified this by saying they could not make the Merlin to such sloppy tolerances. R R then supplied Ford with new specs and to quote Sir Stanley Hooker- one of the most famous men after Rolls and Royce in the company's history( who designed the Merlin supercharger and a host of jet engines such as the Olympus and Pegasus for Bristol before returning to RR), said: "once the great Ford factory at Manchester started production, Merlins came out like shelling peas at the rate of 400 per week. And very good engines they were too, yet never have I seen mention of this massive contribution which the British Ford company made to the build-up of our air forces." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Trafford_Park_Factory
I had a '52 that had been in storage for 5 years in Christchurch. Fresh fuel and 12 volts the flathead straight 8 backfired and with lots of white smoke just purred away. When the smoke cleared the white wall behind her was a huge mess after the backfire. Wheels off and brakes checked, then we drove her back to Auckland.
Wooohoooooo welcome back to life!! brave and elegant warrior!!!
That's awesome. Top job !
Beautiful old Packard.
the car is truly amazing and the video very entertaining for us. thanks.
Love straight eights. Always a smooth running donk as seen by the coin on head
Their straight eights had nine (9) main bearings!
Holy guacamole! What an incredibly beautiful Packard!👍😁 I'm officially envious of you! Perhaps someday I'll own a masterpiece like yours.... 🤔
Nice, nice video guys. I’d like to say it’s amazing but really, this is how things really should be. Well done, gents.
i have the only '37 Studebaker President in my state. cant wait to get that old straight 8 fired up and running like this Packard
Love that body style!
Really cool stuff.
JUST GREAT.
A job well done
34 is a great year. It has the coolest lines and curves. May say sporty, even sexy!
I also love the chisel points on the headlamps and the little runners on the fenders.
33s were very similar.
All done right, it will be worth a fortune!🤑
True; Ford, Chev, Plymouth; the coupes from the 32-34 years were all gorgeous, which is why so many survived as rods.
Packards were always quality automobiles.
too bad their going under in the mid-50's helped start the destruction of Detroit...huge property to be sitting vacant all this time!
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 It boggles the mind how they came out of WW2 flush with cash, and were gone what, about 12 years later? With all they learned making those Merlins, you'd think they would've come out with a line of OHV engines in 1949 to keep up with Cadillac.
I teared up a little.
I'm still coughing
Amazing. A beautiful looking car.
That's a 12 sided Australian Half Dollar balanced on edge, a top the engine on the valve cover . I have a stack of them on the top of my desk right now and beautiful chunks of coinage they are!
Nothing better or beat's these early jalopies, absolutely love them
those old cars run forever, besides I don't care if it doesn't get great gas milage, I would drive a beautiful car like this daily, I myself work on old cars and if you really understand them it's pretty easy to breathe life back into them
Amazing work. Phenomenal machine, a real treasure. Thanks for sharing.
Well done!...
love the sound of the engine nice sound
And the sound of that engine!!
Beautiful car!
Even in Europe we say that Packard build the finest cars ever in highest possible Quality! Not only high price as AudiBmwMercedes do...
I'm thrilled for you! Also noting that some mornings it would take just about this much talent and effort to get me started LOL
Great stuff!
beautiful
about the coolest thing i have seen in a long time, I am a diesel fitter of 40 years lol, so I have seen some stuff
That was a quick start!
That thing sounds awesome -Cadillac fan.
Such a beautiful car; I'll be glad when my '62 Galaxie can ollnomce again.
I knew it would start. Its classic American iron.
ebjoyed the video thanks for posting
"Ach du lieber, mein schatz"!!! Wowie wow wow! What a wunnerful car! Love love love those beautiful WHITEWALLS, a thing of the past now! "Gesundheit"!!!
Gezunte gelt, too.
even the blue saab is nice!
Packard, "Ask the man who owns one."
Mullay2 Both my parents completed the sentence, “Packard: Ask _______________________ .”
that's beautiful!!
What a Jewel!
Love you car guys
Nice car, BEAUTIFUL!
When your done... That engine shall be as quiet as a toaster unplugged... Keep going!!!
Magnificent !
Like you said, they just don't build them like they used to.👍
That's a Packard for you!
Thanks for that vid,the car sounded great!
Wonderfull machine
Amazing engine !!!
Marmon V12 and V16 engines also were superb! very close to Maybach Zeppelin and Mercedes quality!
Marmon and Cadillac did build a few V-16s. There were six who made V-12s (in America): Packard, Lincoln, Cadillac, Pierce-Arrow, Franklin, and Auburn. I don't believe that Marmon did.
radical-mag.com/2017/02/01/marmon-hcm-v-12/
A tip for starting an engine after it has set for a long time, poor some fresh oil (Marvelous Marv's Mystery oil works great for this) in the normal place and let it sit over night. In the morning, crank the engine with no gas to loosen the sludge and remove excess oil from the cylinders. After cranking for 10 seconds turn on the gas. The engine should start with far less smoke. Add Marv's Mystery Oil to the gasoline tank also to clean ports and jets of gasoline varnish. Take the vehicle on a 5 or 10 mile run. You have now removed excess residue from the top and bottom of the engine. Change the oil and oil filter. This method works for small or large engines. Check the settling bulb for rust and or change the fuel filter.
What makes you think they didn't?
nothin finer than a inliner!
It's like she couldn't wait to run again. They made a damn good Merlin at that factory about 9 years later.
SWEET !!
what an inspiring automobile - I wish to God we had artists doing body design instead of computers.
kaiserbill5711 and big government. Don’t forget that. This video is prime example of when auto manufacturers used to build cars for We The People. Gone are those days
Packard had such great integrity until they began to fade in the early '50s. My father had bought a '37 4 dr sedan with the six cylinder engine. I was very young at the time but could sense he was proud of owning the car. He was a career auto mechanic and appreciated the quality.
As for comparing design qualities of then vs now, the whole industry has taken off on a race for survival with so many facets of influence to consider. Liability issues have pressed companies to develop autos that meet buyers standards for safety, etc., not all the governments fault. Irresponsible and unskilled users have had the effect of pushing the industry into something hard to comprehend. It's about the legal aspects now way more than in the 'good old days'.
@@whalesong999 Nowadays it is difficult to distinguish a Chevrolet from a Hyundai. Cars had style in your dad's era. My dad had a Packard that was a late 40's model and looked very unique.
@@jamesdunn9714 Yes, remember the late '40s Packards, very rounded and almost aerodynamic. That, to me, was the end of the classic Packard era. Had a neighbor farmer who bought a new one in the early '50s and they had become quite a showy styled device, kind of garish in style but that was what the industry was going to - late '50s Buicks the most notable in trim excesses to me.
Those indeed were the days when the autos had individual character. These newest machines are built to a different spec and to maximize convenience. In some sense that seems appropriate considering the times we live in but there is certainly a sorrow with the changes.
@@whalesong999 I vehemently but respectfully disagree the auto deaths are always the driver's fault. I don't want to.come off rudely, but please read "Still Unsafe at Any Speed" by Brian Chase.
He's an automotive litigator.
I will give you a personal experience. A Ford mustang was very prone to fishtailing due to solid rear axle. They HAD TO have known. and sold it that was for *decades!* lol
I saw a kid, yes, acting stupid with a sudden movement to get off the freeway 4 lanes over. But the fact that the car spun multiple times on fully dry road is ON FORD, not the stupid driver. It was a full freeway. I was right there. It was a miracle no one got hurt.
Like Final Destination 2, everyone was too perfectly paced together at 60 mph be normal, so I knew someone was going to do something. It looked like the Blues Brothers road stunt was going to come flying thru.
Same car, mid-90s Mustangs. I almost did it myself on fully dry pavement, too. It shouldn't have wanted to spin out. Never had even.an OLD *motorcycle* want to fishtail like that.
And who bought the Mustang? Young men and women. Young men are notorious for acting stupid in cars.
Did they switch that out for the massive motors? I don't think so...
Here's the list of liability issues carmakers KNOWINGLY sold us. All fairly recently, too:
1. Faulty tires/that have failed (tread separation/"eggs" in sidewalls)
2. Air bag failures: not detonating at all, literally decapitating small people/older children. My personal favorite, lol, the shrapnel from normal wear and tear/environment.
I have a Dodge Challenger recalled not once, but TWICE. Drive chain, a 6-8 hour repair, and 2 trips for the damned Takata Airbags (driver's side is different than passenger's).
I JUST slid under the recall wire with my other car, a 2008 Mercury Sable/Ford Taurus (same thing, pretty much) for the damn air bags.
I can assure you, had it blown shrapnel into my face at bullet speed, that wouldn't be my fault, right?
The car doesn't even go in the rain to corrode airbag housing in the first place.
Continuing:
3. Seat Belt failures. They have been known to completely unspool during an accident. We know this due to how it stretched, or didn't.
4. Seat Back failure. The seats collapsed during an accident. In one case, a child was crushed to death in the back seat of a Ford Escort when her mothers seat back collapsed at barely 30 mph. Which should let have been enough to kill anyone making a safe product.
5. Things like brake failures or gas pedals sticking.
6. Not stupid-proof enough vehicles. I bring you the Ford (Ford, again!) 15-passenger van. Like the Corvair, it has very specific tire pressures. Not the usual 32psi. Something like pretty much flat in the back AND they want they vehicle completely full of gas and loaded down so it doesn't slide out for no reason...
You'll remember that church group or large family it might have been that was driving one of these??? Nasty accident.
That's not a safe vehicle, I'm sure you'll agree.
7. Things like tall SUVs with short wheelbases that flipped entirely or "tripped," I'd imagine from catching the rim?
7a. There was a safety test where the car was tested for rollovers by turning it upside down and dropping it. They started with I think it was 2 feet. It collapsed right down to the seats. Then, instead of making THE CAR stronger, with simple rollover bars or something, they modify the TEST, not the car.
Basically, there isn't a car that can survive being dropped a few inches onto its roof. At least, not from Ford, anyhow...
that they KNOW about pretty much ALL of these when they sell them, and NO warning of any kind...well. Sad Mr. Chase has to sue because they figured the 12.00 to fox the Pinto was "cheaper" that the lawsuits for 60+ (usually) younger people and women burning to death after being trapped in the cars.
In addition, we have stuff like gas tank problems. I remember cars where the seat belt would have decapitated me had we hit something and I'm 5'6. You couldn't adjust the seat belt height.
In the past, they released cars with tons of sharp instruments on the dash, and I'm sure you know about the steering column shishkabob victims, right?
You have things like door locks failing and horrible accidents resulting.
Very little to none of that are the driver's responsibility. :) Now, even if say, your window was halfway down, you hit and got badly cut (side glass is sharp on most cars, and shatters fairly easily)...how many normal "not car dorks" :) know how much a closed window maintains the structural stability of the whole vehicle?
It's not like they TELL US any of this. Example, I think EVERY car should have rollover bars, particularly SUVs and vans. They fail to tell you, you ought to have a fuel tank bladder if possible. A racing harness is better, as we all know. If you've ever been to or drove in the Lemons Races.
Maybe I misunderstood, but yeah, apparently the government and lawyers HAVE TO step in when EVERY major carmaker *deliberately* sold cars with dangerous defects with the Pinto excuse. This includes Honda and Toyota, too. We know Ford did. Oh, more than once, I should mention. Crown Vic was basically the Pinto sequel. A number of cops and civilians also burned to death in those cars.
Sorry for the novel, but i felt I had to fully explain. It would be a horrible thing to lose your wife or kid for something THEY KNEW ABOUT, sold them anyway, and failed to tell you, as the law and anyone else would see it. Thus the lawsuits. :)
Lovely!