New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-02-18
PACKARD EIGHT
LUXURIOUS CAR
Has Powerful Motor and 1M
Inch Wheel Base

G0e PACKARD MOtoF CdE CoHipohS "a
hibiting with the most complete line
Of cars in the company's history
Packard now is building straight
Fights exclusively in three distinct
price classes actually with four ii
individual custom cars with bodies
built in the shops of some of the
countrys best known body builders
are to be considered.
The Packard line" embraces the
Standard Eight, built on two differ
ent wheel bases; the Custom Eight
with a slightly larger and more pow
erful motor than that of the stand
ard Eight, and with a wheel base OF
40 inches and the Deluxe Eight,
called the most luxurious car Pack
ard has ever built.
Tho Deluxe Eight is a new car
lust announced last month with q
surprise showing at the automobile
salon. 1t is one of the largest cars
built, having a wheelbase OF 14o 3
inches. With such a chassis and the
long, rallish Packard lines the Gus
tom body builders were given, 1t was
remarked at the salon, an opportu-
nity to Guido all their previous el-
forts in luxurious body building.
The Packard Standard Eight since
its introduction last summer has
been proving one of the most popa-
lar cars the company has ever butt
and the Detroit factory has been
pressed harder than ever before IN
its history, because of this popular
jty, in an effort to make the supply
somewhere near equal the demand,
The new motor actually develops
on the best block 90 horsepower. lis
designers are said to have added
much in the way of smoothnesS OF
operation with a number of import
ant features, such as NlDfatlon
damper and a sturdy crankshaft
with nine main bearings. The motor
is equipped with a crankcase ven
tilating system which carries harm
full vapors out of the engine and
does away with all burned gas odors
inside of the car.
One feature of the new Packards
has been hailed as one of the most
important Developments in automo-
bile engineering in years. 1t has
been called the Packard shock
absorbing system with each other to
eliminate road shocks. Through this
system Packard has succeeded. it is
asserted, in eliminating front wheel
''shimmy' and steering wheel
"whp," something on which motor
car engineers have been concentrat-
tires.
The system is found in all of the
cars of the complete Packard line,
Not the least important units in it
are the new Packard designed and
built two-way hydraulic shock
absorbers and new trunnion spring
bracket which is used to tie the real
end Of the left front spring to the
frame. The hexibilty Of this bracket
is declared to dampen out dstur-
Dances set up in the steering gear
of low pressure tire-equipped cars
long recognized by engineers as the
cause of "shimmy"
The Custom Eight has luxury of
fittings in keeping with its size and
appearance. 1t is built in a com
plete line of nine different body
styles, all on a wheelbasc of 140
inches. With this car a driver. VI
is asserted. may exercise a complete
Indifference to the toughest kind Of
roads with no sacrifices in comfort
Chromium plating is used
throughout the complete Packard
line. and each car has a built-in
radiator screen. General appearance
OF III type carries the distinctive
Packard vogue with exterior changes
SO subtly made as to give much In
added beauty without dcpreciatine
former cars in the hands of owners