Packard began as America’s gentleman engineer: conservative tailoring over cutting-edge bones. In 1915, the company stunned rivals with the Twin Six V12, among the earliest production twelves, whisper ...
Packard was one of biggest automotive names of the prewar era, but by the late 1950s the company was in decline. This episode of Jay Leno's Garage features his 1956 Packard Caribbean convertible, ...
But the big news of 1955 was that in a market growing accustomed to planned obsolescence and yearly styling changes, Packard’s models had the first major restyling since 1951. The lineup for 1955 was ...
In the vast landscape of automotive restoration, few projects capture the imagination quite like the revival of a long-forgotten classic. The 1955 Packard Patrician, a model that once stood as a ...
From a hot rodder's perspective, it's never an easy decision to completely replace a vintage car's front suspension with something newer that is of a completely different design. The torsion-bar ...
We wish we could tell you that torsion-bar springs are modern technology's answer to the quest for soft riding, long travel, and easily modified suspensions. When we were researching this story we ...