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mattsamoto
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Username: mattsamoto

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Registered: 02-2007
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 05:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have a Packard V8 marine engine that came with a '57 Chris Craft Capri that I just bought. I'm leaning towards putting the original motor in the Capri, or at least one more original.

I have not had much luck finding information about the Packard Marine engines and am hoping someone here can shed some light.

I am curious as to their worth as a marine engine as well as their value if I were to sell it.

Thanks.Photo
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andrew
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Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 05:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Do you have a model number for the Packard?

I couldn't help you with "value", but I might have specs or literature on it.
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mattsamoto
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Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 06:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I will get and forward to you. Any tips for where model / serial numbers are on these motors. Thanks.
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larry_from_maryland
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Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 07:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

In 57 would packard and gm,chevy be about the same??
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mattsamoto
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Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 07:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I don't know that the engine is a '57. The boat I bought that the previous owner was to put it in, is a '57.
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keith
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 08:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The head on the above engine isn,t Chevy.
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larry_from_maryland
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 12:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I agree not chevy valve covers. When i looked up parkard in my book it said see crusader,look up crusader and there is a list of engines most of them have ci's that match chevy. Some are differant and there is no id of manufacture.
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ernie
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 02:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Looks Pontiac to me. Does the bellhousing bolt pattern look like an M? Chevys looked like an A.
Pontiac, Olds and Buick shared the M pattern.
A pic of the front will halp as well.
Hope this helps
Ernie
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ernie
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 08:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

After searching the web, It's a Packard
Too many bolts in the valve cover to be a Pontiac anyway.
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Dan Acierno
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 09:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's a Packard auto engine. After market converted by stokes marine in Coldwater Michigan. Look at the water jacketed exhaust manifolds for their logo. Osco also made similar conversions. Packard stopped building marine engines in 1949. They never built a marine V-8.
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bruce
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 10:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dan Acierno-FYI, see the Sterling 1912 Model B for sale in the classifieds on this site.Please e-mail me-the address I have for you has changed Thanks, Bruce Hall
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mattsamoto
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Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 12:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks for the information. That explains the lack of information available.

If you know anyone in the market for one, let me know.

Thanks again.
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N Armstrong
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Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 05:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think you need to talk to someone at the Studebaker Drivers Club ,looks a lot like a Stude 289 .They can help you with ID. Packard was absorbed by Studebaker by 1957.
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freddiebbc
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Posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 02:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi there
I'm looking for sound recordings of the Packard engine used by the british MTB MGB's etc in World War 2 ...any one know where I can find some?!! Also Any other MTB MGB engines recordings..eg Isotta
Many thanks
freddie rostand

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