My new wallpaper - '48 Packard was getting long in the tooth

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 11/08/2013 at 10:33 • Filed to: None

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CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 10:45

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It's so rainy in Britain that they need 3 wipers.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 11/08/2013 at 10:47

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I don't actually know if this one's in Britain or France, it being a Panhard. Deep dash or RH wheel, hard to say.

AMC/Renauledge > CalzoneGolem 11/08/2013 at 10:50

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Yup. Plus, that windshield is at least three times wider than it is high. So you need three wipers.

CalzoneGolem > AMC/Renauledge 11/08/2013 at 10:51

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The math checks out.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 10:52

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It looks like a picture of Britain.

AMC/Renauledge > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 11:02

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Ramblin', you had a '48 Packard up as your wallpaper? Which one? Custom Eight Victoria, Imperial? Eight Station Sedan?

You definitely have a type.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > AMC/Renauledge 11/08/2013 at 11:18

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Custom Eight 2-door. This one:

www.flickr.com/photos/sjb4photos/4065183086/

AMC/Renauledge > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 11:19

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That looks like a 4-door to me.

I always liked the "pregnant elephant" Packards. Especially those Custom Eight Victorias.

I know it was an era of Packard moribundity, having shirked the true luxury class at that point in time. But I love them.

I just found this pre-pregnancy '46 Clipper pic. Drool.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > AMC/Renauledge 11/08/2013 at 11:23

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Try this . My DNS filtering recently added flickr to its block (stupidly), so while I can evade it, I have to swap DNS settings back and forth. Edit to add: that means posting things correctly doesn't always happen, and youtube is fiddly: I can post youtube videos, but have to copy the url from a google search and add http://, etc. I'd leave the settings on Google DNS, but then the network drive loses its shit.

AMC/Renauledge > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 11:25

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I am in love.

What a beautiful car.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > AMC/Renauledge 11/08/2013 at 11:26

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Much cheaper than the Panhard Dynamic in the OP, too. The Dynamics, when you can find one, are >$75k.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 11:26

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Under-inflated tire, -10 points

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > AMC/Renauledge 11/08/2013 at 11:40

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I think I've gone completely insane: I just started considering the practicality of making a Nash Metropolitan into a miniature pregnant elephant.

JEM > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 11:46

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So your wallpaper went from being long in the tooth to long in the nose?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JEM 11/08/2013 at 11:49

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Exactly so.

AMC/Renauledge > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 12:21

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Put a 1275cc A-plus under the hood, and you'll have something!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > AMC/Renauledge 11/08/2013 at 12:35

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One hasn't gone full retard, though, unless one builds a miniature straight-eight. Ideally, said straight eight would be a flathead, which limits the tiny fours it could be built out of considerably. One might be best off building one's own with a technique similar to a Crosley CoBra engine- though that would mean far heavier metal used in the exhaust pathway than the rest of the block. The safest strategy is an actual milled block or sand-cast. Possibly one would use early A-series pistons, camshafts, valves (reworked for on-cam lifters), and even cranks to mill, weld, and re-heat-treat.

AMC/Renauledge > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 12:43

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Yeah, but the CoBra leaked like a sieve, didn't it?

Perhaps fusing two 918cc Morris Minor MM flathead I4 engines together would do the trick. It'd make sense, too, since the Met was built by BMC.

A 1.8L straight-8, you say? Sign me up!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > AMC/Renauledge 11/08/2013 at 12:54

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The CoBras ran great until... they didn't, and that was often due to bubbles and localized heat. Which a flathead version would be a master chef's recipe for.

I'd forgotten the Minor was a flathead, and 1000cc was kind of my conceptual upper limit. 2x918 = Fantastic.

The engine form factor is even very similar, though you might have to build the Minor Eight in reverse to get the intake and exhaust on the right side. At that point, you're almost best off just taking a metro frame and suspension and reworking them, doing the body from scratch due to going overboard. Overboard into awesome.

AMC/Renauledge > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/08/2013 at 13:02

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You could probably keep the internal panels, interior bones, etc. But yes, overboard in AWESOME! is right.

I'd recommend turning a '58 or later Met into a Teen Pregnant Elephant, though. They had adjustable seats, vent wings, and an outside opening trunk. They're also a lot more common than the 54-57s.

The first "MM" series Minors were flatheads. By the early '50s, they got the ohv A-Series.