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1935 Packard Model 1203 Super Eight Five-Passenger Sedan…
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Sydney
Date:
13-Nov-2010
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1935 Packard Model 1203 Super Eight Five-Passenger Sedan (Rhd)Registration no. Aq-20-Yu (NSW) Expires 12/10/11Chassis no. 843436Engine no. 755890, Always built to the highest standards, the Packard was unquestionably one of the finest American cars of the pre-war era. Dissatisfaction with his Winton motor carriage is said to have spurred James Ward Packard to build a superior automobile. Aided by his brother and two defectors from the Winton company, Packard set up shop in his electrical engineering factory in Warren, Ohio, from which the first Packard car - the single-cylinder Model A runabout - emerged in November 1899. The Packard's innovative engineering and superior build quality were soon attracting the attention of wealthy clients, William D Rockefeller purchasing two at the New York Automobile Show in November 1900. 'Ask The Man Who Owns One,' was adopted as the company's advertising slogan. Cars powered by two-, four- and six-cylinder engines quickly followed, before Packard became the first manufacturer to introduce a series production V12 with the launch of the Twin Six for 1916. An immense success for the company, the Twin Six lasted until the arrival of the new-for-'24 Packard Single Eight, the company's first car to employ four-wheel brakes. The nine-bearing, sidevalve, straight-eight engine developed 85bhp from 5.9 litres, and the line-up initially comprised ten models on two wheelbase lengths. With the introduction of custom models in 1926 the Eight range increased dramatically. 'Original Creations by Master Designers' according to Packard, the custom offerings were bodied by Derham, Dietrich, Fleetwood, Holbrook and Judkins among others.Bijur chassis lubrication and hypoid final drive gears had arrived on the Eight by 1927, at which time the engine was enlarged to 6.3 litres and maximum power raised to 105bhp. 1929 saw Packard building eight-cylinder cars only and marked the introduction of a new base-model 5.2-litre Standard Eight, the larger engine continuing to power the Custom and Deluxe Eights. Packard had returned to V12 power with the launch of a new Twin Six for 1932, and when the Custom line up switched to the twelve-cylinder chassis the following year, the Deluxe - now re-named Super - became the top-of-the-range Eight. Introduced in '32, the Super's double-drop chassis featured 'X' bracing and a new all-synchromesh three-speed transmission. Maximum engine output was by now 145bhp. 1934 saw almost all the V12's Custom body styles available again on the longest (147' wheelbase) Super Eight 1105 chassis, the majority 1104-series Super Eights continuing to be built on the 142' fr
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