I've heard rumors about those Packard Gals !

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2012: I've heard rumors about those Packard Gals !
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 06:31 pm:

Some say they still change their own oil .... :-)

@ http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/49080145/ns/today-good_news/


Jim


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Danial - Veneta OR US Earth Solar System on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 09:32 pm:

That's is so awesome. Wow!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 05:50 am:

2 classics for sure. That Packard wasn't cheap in the day and it's worth a fortune now.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Wicker on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 06:25 am:

The Packard convention is in Williamsburg Va. this week!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John W. Oder - Houston, Texas on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 06:50 am:

The "7" is the series and the "40" means the wheelbase was close to 140". Engine was the 385 CID straight eight with nine mains and iron block on cast aluminum crankcase. Trans was a four speed crash box, with an almost useless granny low. It was the "big" Packard that year, and cost about the same as eight new Fords in 1930.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 09:09 am:

Wonder what she paid for that Packard in 1949?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 11:59 am:

She's something extra :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Dunning
Some Ford connections too - she worked at a Ford plant for some time in the early 30's making voltage regulators they write - could have been cutouts? It was at the Phoenix Mill Ford Plant in Plymouth, MI, a Ford Village Industries plant that employed only women, according to Wikipedia.
And she has restored several old cars herself. In 1985, she donated a restored 1906 Model N Ford to the Gilmore Car Museum at Hickory Corners, Michigan.


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