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'Learn something new every day on e-bay if you read all the descriptions!
BP
'Learn something new every day on e-bay if you read all the descriptions!
BP
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We've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge. 
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. -
Is that like back in the 70's when the General got in trouble for putting Chevy engines in Oldsmobiles? -
Originally posted by skyway View Post
'Wait a minute; I just thought of something!
Perhaps that 1961 OHV Packard Six was an experimental half of the proposed 1962 Packard V-12! I mean, if Pontiac could half their V8 for the Tempest Four, why couldn't Studebaker-Packard do the same thing in reverse, introducing the half-an-engine first?
Ah-HA! BP
We've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge.
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.Comment
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The Packard V12 story takes me way back. I recall many of us getting TW attention to that fake story.Originally posted by BobPalma View Post'Wait a minute; I just thought of something!
Perhaps that 1961 OHV Packard Six was an experimental half of the proposed 1962 Packard V-12! I mean, if Pontiac could half their V8 for the Tempest Four, why couldn't Studebaker-Packard do the same thing in reverse, introducing the half-an-engine first?
Ah-HA! BP
JDP MarylandComment
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What was the end result of all that? Remember all the discussion but not the outcome...Originally posted by JDP View Post
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Refresh our memories, Bob!! http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.c...light=toroflowOriginally posted by BobPalma View Post
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Looks to be a standard old 61 Study overhead 6 engine to me and I think the owner is one of our forum members.Candbstudebakers
Castro Valley,
California
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So THAT'S where Performability comes from. They started using Packard engines in '61! <G> It is a nice car, though!Comment
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Nice looking carMilt
1947 Champion (owned since 1967)
1961 Hawk 4-speed
1967 Avanti
1961 Lark 2 door
1988 Avanti Convertible
Member of SDC since 1973Comment
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