1937 Packard 120 POV drive — Transcript

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1. 0:00today we're going to be taking a drive
2. 0:02in a 1937 packard 120. i already did a
3. 0:05video on a walk with a
4. 0:06did a video of the walk around with it
5. 0:08so if you have not seen that take a look
6. 0:10at the walk around and that will show
7. 0:11you everything about the car
8. 0:12uh the operations of the functionality
9. 0:15the details the outside and that sort of
10. 0:16thing but what we're looking at right
11. 0:17here is a 1937
12. 0:19packard 120. now i'll just repeat myself
13. 0:22in the other video
14. 0:23120 deals with the wheelbase right here
15. 0:25120 inch wheelbase the 115 has a 115
16. 0:28inch wheelbase
17. 0:29the extra length of a 120 is made up
18. 0:32here in the fender so you've got a much
19. 0:34longer graceful flowing fender on the
20. 0:36120s
21. 0:37and most importantly you've got the
22. 0:38straight eighth famous packard straight
23. 0:40eight six
24. 0:41eight eight cylinder motor under the
25. 0:42hood straight eight cylinder packard
26. 0:44motor
27. 0:44and in the 115 you have the straight six
28. 0:47so this car of the straight eight is a
29. 0:49super smooth runner
30. 0:50suicide doors fantastic car to drive
31. 0:53around in
32. 0:54and interestingly enough this car has a
33. 0:56little bit of a greenish tinted glass
34. 0:58in it probably special orders from the
35. 0:59factory uh this car right here
36. 1:02i gave you the kind of the run around
37. 1:04here but basically just turn the key on
38. 1:06i press the clutch and so i'm not
39. 1:07spitting the transmission when i'm
40. 1:08trying to start the motor with these six
41. 1:10bolt systems hit the key
42. 1:13up come on
43. 1:16there she goes
44. 1:22so she's running we're charging right
45. 1:25here
46. 1:26about up to 180 uh volts of temp
47. 1:30our volts 180 degrees of temperature
48. 1:35uh 30 pounds of oil pressure about a
49. 1:37quarter tank of fuel
50. 1:38and interestingly enough i'd mentioned
51. 1:40before this clock works too
52. 1:42it's just moved it's about five till
53. 1:45four
54. 1:46uh says it's four o'clock in my phone so
55. 1:49interestingly enough it works and the
56. 1:51horn on this car the trumpets
57. 1:52uh we'll go ahead and blow the horn
58. 1:56it really makes a great sound so anyway
59. 1:58let's let's and you got a throttle here
60. 2:00too by the way
61. 2:03so i can set a fast idle and that sort
62. 2:05of thing on my throttle
63. 2:07um but anyway i gave you the kind of the
64. 2:11walk around of it so you've seen uh what
65. 2:14everything does
66. 2:15so let's just take it for a drive close
67. 2:17this door these things close like a bank
68. 2:18vault
69. 2:20perfect and uh here we go
70. 2:23take our break off three speeds so
71. 2:27that's reverse right there
72. 2:30that's first second
73. 2:33third so put her in first
74. 2:37ease the clutch out a little bit and
75. 2:40uh i'm trying to hold this video
76. 2:46and steer at the same time interestingly
77. 2:49enough these bias
78. 2:50ply tires and no power steering
79. 2:53it's pretty amazing how light the
80. 2:55steering is on these cars
81. 2:57now i will say you've got to be rolling
82. 3:00you've got to be rolling to move the
83. 3:02steering wheel you can uh
84. 3:04just turn it if you're not moving but
85. 3:07super smooth running car kind of check
86. 3:10our traffic here both ways nothing
87. 3:11coming that way but back in first gear
88. 3:15ease the clutch out and you really don't
89. 3:17even have to give this car any gas it
90. 3:19just moves along
91. 3:28speedometer works
92. 3:31gauge everything on this car works uh
93. 3:34the one thing dude i really do love that
94. 3:35horn
95. 3:37they know you're coming through when you
96. 3:39blow that thing two big trumpets under
97. 3:40the hood
98. 3:41take a look at the other video and you
99. 3:42can see
100. 3:44uh you can see those trumpets now this
101. 3:46car a lot of the packards
102. 3:48uh and i'll open my cow event here to
103. 3:50get a little air moving
104. 3:53a lot of these packards uh with the
105. 3:56three speeds
106. 3:57had an electric overdrive you just let
107. 3:58off the gas and uh it automatically
108. 4:01shifts into overdrive
109. 4:03this car does not it has a uh just a
110. 4:05standard three-speed transmission so
111. 4:07on the road this car is it's a it's a 60
112. 4:10mile an hour cruiser you're not going to
113. 4:12be on the interstate going
114. 4:1375 or anything like that
115. 4:19i'm still in third gear that's the
116. 4:21beautiful beautiful thing about this
117. 4:22street eight
118. 4:24you can leave this thing in third gear
119. 4:26and go anywhere has so much
120. 4:28torque very smooth
121. 4:33and i would imagine you could probably
122. 4:34adapt an overdrive transmission with
123. 4:36this car if you wanted to
124. 4:38uh and i don't know if folks have done
125. 4:40that or not but
126. 4:44that would be a neat thing to do also
127. 4:46this car would probably benefit from
128. 4:48radial tire that's got the bias ply on
129. 4:50it
130. 4:51it's it's it's a little uh
131. 4:55you feel it kind of moving with the
132. 4:56grooves in the road a little bit
133. 4:58if i was going to take this on a long
134. 5:00trip i would probably be uh
135. 5:02inclined to put radials on it you can
136. 5:03get them from coker and they're not
137. 5:05cheap but uh the buy supplies have a
138. 5:08nice look but i really like the uh
139. 5:10i like the way the radials drive still
140. 5:13got my turn signal on there
141. 5:15this car was upfitted at some point in
142. 5:17its life with
143. 5:18a really a period correct uh
144. 5:21turn signal system when these cars were
145. 5:23new they didn't have turn signals you
146. 5:24put your hand out the window
147. 5:26held it up to slow down pointed it to
148. 5:29the left
149. 5:31or you held it up for a right-hand turn
150. 5:34pointed it out the window for a
151. 5:36left-hand turn and held your hand down
152. 5:39to show that you were stopping if you
153. 5:40didn't have any brake lights
154. 5:45banjo steering wheel on this car that
155. 5:46was an option back
156. 5:48you had a whole list of options that you
157. 5:50could get on this packer
158. 5:51120 and one of the things in the option
159. 5:55catalog was a banjo steering wheel
160. 5:58probably a pretty expensive item back in
161. 5:59the day
162. 6:03this car has the original owner's manual
163. 6:05in it uh it's in the glove box i won't
164. 6:07get it out right now while i'm driving
165. 6:09but i'm thinking that
166. 6:10uh owner's manual or maybe it was the
167. 6:12dealer literature
168. 6:14um it it showed you all the different
169. 6:17options and i think the heater down here
170. 6:19i think that was an option as well
171. 6:27but you think about 1937 you know this
172. 6:30car
173. 6:30today uh
174. 6:34drives pretty nice i mean you could
175. 6:36imagine back in 1937
176. 6:39uh you know how advanced this car
177. 6:43and how much quality went into this car
178. 6:44when it was built
179. 6:49look we got a dog up here i think we're
180. 6:51going to slow down
181. 6:52[Music]
182. 6:55and i still haven't shifted out of third
183. 6:56gear i mean this car
184. 6:58just has great torque and uh
185. 7:02watch out there doggie i'm still in
186. 7:05third gear and i'm going
187. 7:06less than 20 miles an hour now we can
188. 7:08shift up to second
189. 7:10if you want to accelerate a little bit
190. 7:14faster
191. 7:21a curvy road here
192. 7:30let's look at that turn second gotta
193. 7:32remember to cancel they don't cancel on
194. 7:42themselves
195. 7:44just a very easy driving car
196. 7:48and the ride in it is just spectacular
197. 7:50there's no rattles
198. 7:52the shocks work really well
199. 7:56this is what it would be like if it was
200. 7:581937 and you
201. 8:00you had the means to buy a packard and
202. 8:03of course i said the other video
203. 8:05that back seat back there is there's
204. 8:07more room back there in the back seat
205. 8:09than there is in the front seat and
206. 8:11often times the folks who bought these
207. 8:13cars
208. 8:14they didn't buy them to sit in front
209. 8:15drive them they bought them to sit in
210. 8:17the back they had a
211. 8:18they had a driver uh most likely
212. 8:22i think we're kind of coming into a
213. 8:23little residential area here
214. 8:26slow her down to about 30 miles an hour
215. 8:29and i know i'm kind of pointing into the
216. 8:32sun
217. 8:34but
218. 8:38this is about it uh the glass on this
219. 8:40car is fantastic it's got some
220. 8:43bugs and some things on it but uh but
221. 8:46this is it
222. 8:46this is a 37 packard 120 and that's
223. 8:49about all i've
224. 8:50got to say about it uh i hope you
225. 8:52enjoyed the ride along
226. 8:53and uh we'll we'll talking with you
227. 8:56again
228. 8:57all right take care and if you like the
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