Originally Posted by
nota
Packard strengths for 1956 included a great V8 engine and their very own pushbutton automatic transmission, a well regarded unit called Ultramatic. Also perhaps the first availability in any production-car of the LSD, which complemented the (unique?) suspension system that featuring two longitudinal torsion bars that ran the length of the wheelbase and linked front-to-rear, thus enhancing stability and providing a form of self-levelling
US admirers of the marque once bitterly referred to Packard's demise as 'the marque we can not afford to lose'
I think the Patrician I showed here had a conventional selector on the steering. You can actually see, on another pic that I have, the indicator scale, but that could also be used in connection with the Ultramatic (?). TheV8s were also supplied, in combination with the Ultramatic, to American Motors, to power the Nash and Hudson Eights. (not much relief their either )
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