History Great piece of family history. Drag racing 1965!

I had an ultramatic in a 50 packard once and would not advise this box for racing.I dont know about the 57 But othe salt i wont matter much which box ,Will it?

 

Regardless of wins and speed, sure looks cool to me. Thanks for posting those pics. They are great. I am sure given enough knowledge and time, you could have dialed that car in to do much better than that. Even a totally stocker could probably do 80 without too much effort. No matter, sounds like it was fun and wish I had had the chance to do cool stuff like that when I was younger.

 

Sweet.
What a great family story.
Thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks for the great pics from 1965, they say a lot about the fun side of drag racing at the time.

To me the Packard V8 looks huge outside of a car, like a BBC on steroids, but in the cavernous engine compartment of a Stude C&K body looks right in scale. The Studebaker V8 looks small in there, set pretty far back, and I guess it needs a foot or more of shroud between the engine and radiator. I'd like to eyeball a Packard engine with manual trans in a '56 Golden Hawk, to see how far back it can go.

 

The Packard cylinder block was very long, in part because the flywheel end of the block extended to surround the flywheel and pressure plate creating a partial bell housing, similar to some Olds engines. It was very easy for us to adapt a 1948 Ford 3-speed trans because all that was necessary was to cut out a ring of steel and create the two appropriate hole patterns in it so it could be bolted to the Packard block and then the Ford trans was bolted to the plate. The Ford trans was not very strong, but it was fun while it lasted.

 

Did you set the engine back at all? and do you remember what you did about the motor mounts?

 

Looks like that was alot of fun memories..............

 

We did not set the engine back. I don't remember the motor mounts.

 

cool. gettin' some scratch against the corvette. nice indian too. inspiring!

 

What's your photobucket web link?............

 

Way cool.... what gears was he running?

 

The Stude tried many different rears. The last one was from a 1956 Mercury station wagon. It was a very strong unit, 3.54:1 ratio.