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Engine Line Up – 1946 Packard

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I love writing Engine Line Up pieces. I learn a lot doing the research.

Back in 1946 there wasn’t a lot of imagination when it came to naming cars. Packard either named their cars after the engines that powered them or their engines after their car models plus the cylinder count. This led to the following models names:

Clipper Six
Clipper Standard/Deluxe Eight
Clipper Eight
Custom Super Clipper Eight

The engines available for the Packard line up included one 6 cylinders and two 8 cylinders.

First up is the 6 cylinder dubbed – Clipper Six. This was an inline (straight) L-Head 6. (Note: An L-Head is a type of internal combustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves on one side of the engine block – making the shape of an “L”.) The engine displaced 245.6 ID and had a bore and stroke of 3.5×4.25 and a compression ratio of 6.7:1. It had four main barrings and solid lifters. Top it off with a Carter WA1 single barrel carb (Model 530S) and you’d get 105 hp.

Clipper Six Engine

Clipper Six Engine – 1947 would be the last year this engine would be used in the Packard

Next up is the inline eight, referred to as the Clipper Standard/Deluxe Eight.  It was an L-head as well that displaced 282.04 (yes .o4) cubic inches.  It’s bore and stroke were 3.25X4.25 inches and the compression ratio was 6.85:1.  It had five main bearings and solid lifters all topped with a 2 barrel Carter (WDO) Model 512S.  On a good day you could coax 125 hp out of this configuration. Consider that the average weight of the Packard’s for that year 3,922 lbs with the heaviest being almost 5,000 lbs (4900), you’ll need all those horses to get these beautiful pieces of steel moving.

Last is the Super/Custom Super Clipper Eight.  Again it was a straight (inline) eight cylinder and an L-head.   This power plant was 356 cid with a bore/stroke of 3 1/2×4 5/8 inches, 9 main bearings and hydraulic lifters.  Topped with  a Carter’s (WDO) two barrel Model 531S it produced 165 horse power.

Clipper Eight Straight 8 cylinder L-head engine

Clipper Eight Straight 8 cylinder L-head engine

 

Thanks for reading.

Tim

 

On The Finest Hours set in Chatham

Posted Dec. 14, 2014 @ 6:08 pm. “Snow” created by the movie production crew, frosts the 1946 Packard police cruiser at Chatham Fish Pier. Staff photo by Doreen Leggett. By Doreen Leggett dleggett@wickedlocal.com. Posted Dec. 14, 2014 @ 6:08 pm.
La fábrica de Packard a subasta por 15.000 euros

Si quieres hacerte con un trocito de la historia automotriz de Estados Unidos y Detroit, dentro de poco se celebrará una subasta donde tendrás oportunidad de hacerlo. Las antiguas instalaciones de Packard saldrán a subasta por 21.000 dólares, …

Time Capsule of Chevrolets – Neatorama

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Time Capsule of Chevrolets – Neatorama.

This is crazy cool.  Which I was there with some $$$$

Check out the video link below.

 

Thank for reading.

Tim

 

 

2016 Shelby GT350 Planned With High-Revving V8 | AutoGuide.com News

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2016 Shelby GT350 Planned With High-Revving V8 | AutoGuide.com News.

Do we like this?

I am going to have to say…yes…I think I do!!!

2015-ford-mustang

Thanks for reading.

Tim

Goodguys Rodders Right at Home in New England – RodAuthority.com

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Goodguys Rodders Right at Home in New England – RodAuthority.com.

If you haven’t atttended a Goodguys event…you are missing something wonderful.

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Lowell, AZ Revisited

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No this isn’t the finishing up the last trips notes, nope we just returned from there today 6/23.

We had stayed the weekend in Bisbee again with a couple friends and Lowell is 2 minutes away and so we wanted to show them the cool little town.

This time it was a bit earlier on a Sunday morning and the breakfast cafe was crowded and one other thing was different the Harley Repair shop was open.

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We got to meet the owner Jim (real first named – last name omitted).  As I alluded to in my earlier posts, Jim is a avid supporter of one of the largest motorcycle social events in the world – Sturgis, South Dakota.  On this particular Sunday Jim had his shop open and was working on the brakes of his old Chevy pick up.

One of Jim's many vehicles. He mentioned that we owns nearly all of the motor cycles and cars you see there.

One of Jim’s many vehicles. He mentioned that we owns nearly all of the motor cycles and cars you see there.

Most of the cars and vehicles belong to Jim. He has a pretty large collection of cars – like a 1969 Mustang Shelby, Studebaker pickup, Hudson, 67 Corvette to name a few (Oh and this Caddy!!).

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He has collected all of the Indian and Harley motorcycles you can see on display and parked along the street and I’d say they out number the cars at lest three to one.

This Indian racer has been well restored.

This Indian racer has been well restored.

I didn’t get him on camera, hadn’t expected to run into to him on a Sunday morning and didn’t want to impose.   As I stated, Jim was setting up to do a brake job on the Chevy pickup pictured above.  As we approached we were greeted by two dogs, one named Blondie, the other dogs name I didn’t catch but both were older but cutie dogs.  Jim was hauling out a Honda scooter with a for sale sign on it when we walked up followed by the two dogs.  Next to the Chevy pick up was a 2004 Harley which he had just picked up from a when a family friend who’s patriarch had recently passed and the family offered the bike at a far price.  The dogs belonged the same fellow and Jim adopted them (he had just lost his 12 year old dog).

Jim admits he has collected a lot of interesting pieces and let us know he has a Chrysler with an original Hemi coming in and a flat head Ford V8 engine, but needs a Ford to put it in, and a few more goodies.  He laughed saying that he’s running out of friends with space to store thing.  Being a fellow car lover, I offered to bring some things back to Tucson with me to help out….we both laughed….pretty sure that’s not going to happen.

Although Lowell is a legitimate Arizona city it has pretty much been left on it’s own.  It has been slated to be torn down -(more on that later on).  Jim explained that “they” pretty much let him and a couple others carry on business and Jim use most of the building for storing and displaying his treasures.

There is an effort to save the town of Lowell, AZ and make it a historic area.  Look for more from me on that.

Thanks for reading.

Tim

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Road Tripping – Cars – Lowell, Az – The Lost Blog Posts

Let’s talk about the staging. Most of these are original, but staged (well staged) with some period correct signs, gas pumps and vehicles. Let’s check out.

Video: Edelbrock’s 8th Annual Revved Up 4 Kids Car Show – RodAuthority.com

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Video: Edelbrock’s 8th Annual Revved Up 4 Kids Car Show – RodAuthority.com.

Some great cars at the Edelbrock Kids Car show (which kids – big kids?  both!!!)

I love his Malibu!!!  Under appreciated when they came out and still today they are more often thought of as the lesser brother the the Chevelle.

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Cragger and the like.  Great looking car.

Wrecked – 1964 Ford Falcon

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1964 Ford Falcon.

I love the ’50s-’60s stations wagons.

1964 Ford Falcon

But there are other, equally cool cars that you might take a fancy too and want to restore.  Finding stuff can be a problem.  My new feature “Wrecked” might help you out with finding those parts.

I’m doing this in conjunction with listing on www.PartingOut.Com  they pull together a lot of cars and many are southwestern cars, that means less debilitating rest on the parts you need.  And that’s where I found this very near complete parts car.

The 1964 Falcon came in 2 door coupe, 4 door coupe with names almost as long as the wheel base, like Ford Falcon Futura Sprint (yeah…that’s model) and the wagon.

The wagons were the work horses of the suburbs. They got the families to and from ball games and camping trips and the grocery store.  1964 was the first year the Falcon wagons were their own series.

They featured either a 6 cylinder or a V8 for power.  Two 6 cylinder, the Falcon Six-Cylinder and the Falcon/Fairlane Six-Cylinder, 85hp and 100hp respectively were available.   The V8 mustard up 164 hp, which was pretty respectable for a light wagon.

The Falcon wagon came as a 6 passenger hauler with 3 models, the Standard, Deluxe and the Squire.  These were mostly all 4 doors (not counting  the tailgate) but there were few with a very desirable 2 door wagon.  I’m a sucker for 2 door wagons and I give it a collectable rating of “very”.  Why?  Well not only do you have a ‘first’ year model but you have a low production car as only 6,034 of two doors were produced.

As you can see used parts are available and they are easy to restore and two doors lend themselves easily to modification for – additional forward thrust.  And  you can do stuff like this:

Slightly hot rodded

Slightly hot rodded

Easy to add more breathing capacity.

Easy to add more breathing capacity.

Custom 2 Door. Very Nice!!

Custom 2 Door. Very Nice!!

Have I convinced you yet?  If so check out this and more parts cars at www.PartingOut.com

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PartingOut.com

Thanks for reading.

Tim

 

Todd Carlson’s Awesome 2011 Mustang Runs 9′s And Knocks Down 23MPG – StangTV.com

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This what a sleeper is suppose to look like…but WOW!!!

Todd Carlson’s Awesome 2011 Mustang Runs 9′s And Knocks Down 23MPG – StangTV.com.

The 2011+ Mustang platform has already proven itself to be a hell of a performer, both on the street and at the track. Livernois Motorsports customer Todd Carlson has one of the cleanest examples we’ve seen to date, outfitted with a number of upgrades including a Livernois Motorsports engine and 2.9L Whipple supercharger. The best part? Todd drives this car every chance he gets, except for in the rain.

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Awesome car!!!
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Tim

 

American Muscle In Albury – crcooperphotography

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I really need to plan a trip down-under.  I love these guys!!!

← The Reverend Horton Heat-Billboards Australia American Muscle In Albury Posted on June 4, 2013 by crcooperphotography A few weeks back A few American Car Clubs joined forces and bombed on Albury’s QE2 Square.

via American Muscle In Albury | crcooperphotography.

 Muscle Down-Under

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Tim

Wrecked – 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air

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1956 Chevrolet Bel Air-Part.

1956 Chevrolet Bel Air

But there are other, equally cool cars that you might take a fancy too and want to restore.  Finding stuff can be a problem.  My new feature “Wrecked” might help you out with finding those parts.

I’m doing this in conjunction with listing on PartingOut.Com  they pull together a lot of cars and many are southwestern cars, that means less debilitating rest on the parts you need.  And that’s where I found this very near completed parts car.

So before the ’57 Chevy craze there was the 1956 Chevy’s (really?….yes!!). No glitz of big fins and gobs of super shiny chrome there were the still cool Chevy’s.  The 1956 Bel Air was the one of the cool cars.

Chevy can in a several flavors, plain (One Fifty – 1500A), chocolate (Two Ten – 2100 B) and refined mocha mint (Bel Air – 2400C) – which include the very cool Nomad.  With over 600,000 Bel Airs produced that year, (approximately  1.5 million produced over all) you are still bound to find some good used parts.  (Who came up with the numbering systems – One Fifty – 1500A?)

They all came with station wagon variations but only the Bel Air came in a drop top (only about 41K of those made).

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There were only  two engines (six cylinder and eight).  The six was iron displacing 235.5 cubic inches with overhead valves, a bore and stroke of 3 – 9/16″ x 3-15/16″,  hydraulic lifters and four main bearing, producing 104 hp. All this goodness topped with Rochester one barrel on the automatic Powerglide Model 700200 or a Carter one barrel model 2101S and the standard shift, Rochester one barrel model 7007181.

The V8 was iron as well, displacing 265 cubic inches.  The bore and stroke of 3.75″x3″ and compression ratio of 8.0:1 helped to produce  162 hp w/the standard or Touch-down transmission (topped with  Rochester two barrel – model 7009909 ) or 170 hp with the PowerGlide transmission topped with a Carter two barrel model 2286s.

Normally I’ll stop there but there some cool power train options. Check these out:

– a four barrel Super Turbo-Fire V8 with 205hp and compression of 9.25:1 and any choice of transmission

– a 225 hp dual 4 bl carbs set up on the same engine block

The two door station wagon were call Handyman.

The taillight 0n the left hand side was in fact the fuel door.

1956 Chevy. No glitz but very cool.

1956 Chevy. No glitz but very cool.

 

Thanks for reading and drop a note if you own 1956 Chevy.

Tim