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For the first time, Hudson offered a V8 engine starting for the 1955 model year. It was the Packard-designed and -built 320 cu in (5.2 L) engine rated at 208 hp (155 kW). [39] All cars with the Packard V8 also came with Packard's Ultramatic automatic transmission [40] [41] as an option for $494 with the Nash 3-speed manual was also available at ...
The last Teague design for Packard was the Executive, introduced in mid-1956 and derived from the Clipper Custom, launched just as sales of the luxury Packard line collapsed. Teague also designed the last Packard show car, the Predictor, plus a new Packard and Clipper lineup for 1957 that would have followed the general lines of the Predictor.
Gold Bond specimen of the Packard Motor Car Company, issued 15 April 1921 1916 Packard Twin Six Touring (1-35) A 1916 Packard Twin-Six Model 1-35 Touring Sedan equipped with Kegresse track belonging to the Emperor of Russia (1917) 1927 Packard Fourth Series Six Model 426 Runabout Roadster 1922 Packard EX truck on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking ...
Moreover, Packard's engines and transmissions were comparatively expensive, so AMC began development of its own V8 engine, and replaced the outsourced unit by mid-1956. [ 33 ] For the 1955 model year, all the large Nash and Hudson automobiles were based on a Nash-derived shared unitized body shell using styling themes by Pinin Farina , Edmund E ...
American Motors purchased V8 engines from Packard before introducing its in-house-designed V8. The automaker used these Packard engines exclusively in 1955 and 1956 Nash Ambassadors and Hudson Hornets. The Packard 320 cu in (5.2 L) engine was used in 1955, and switched to the 352 cu in (5.8 L) version for the 1956 model year.
To differentiate the two models, the 1955 Hornet was built on the 1955 Nash Ambassador platform and offered with the as well as the Hornet 308 cu in (5.0 L) I6 engine, as well as a detuned 320 cu in (5.2 L) V8 engine supplied by Packard. On the other hand, the 1955 Hudson Wasp was built on the Nash Statesman platform and included Hudson's 202 ...
Packard agreed to supply AMC with its new 320ci V8 and Twin Ultramatic transmission for 1955 in the latter company's top-line Nash Ambassador and Hudson Hornet ranges, giving both models the modern V8 engine option they desperately needed in order to keep pace with the Big Three. This agreement continued into the 1956 model year, as Packard ...
The Hornet, introduced for the 1951 model year, was based on Hudson's "step-down" design [5] that was first seen in the 1948 model year on the Commodore.Unlike a unibody, the design did not fully merge the body and chassis frame into a single structure, but the floor pan footwells recessed down, in between the car's chassis rails, which were, in turn, routed around them – instead of a ...