Re: "Miss Packard"

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Pretty amusing boat.

My first 'real' job out of high school, Ocean Research Equipment,  
1975?, one of the bosses friends brought in a boat he wanted the  
engine yanked out of. It was a beautiful mahogany rum-runner boat  
from the prohibition era, and was Kennedy family property apparently.  
Unfortunately I don't know what the engines were, a pair of straight  
8's, but the boat was lined with stainless steel tanks allegedly for  
booze. (Kennedy's lived in Hyannisport Mass, O.R.E. was in Falmouth).  
They wanted the boat, not the motors. Couldn't tell you what happened  
to any of it.

tomj




On Dec 5, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Ken Ames wrote:

> The engine sounds like the PT-boat V-12s built by Packard in WWII.  
> See the
> current issue of Hemmings Classic Car (with the 61 Ambassador resto  
> in it).
> At full throttle the 184 gallons would be gone in just over an hour.
> There's more than 1 editorial glitch in the article though.
>
> Ken
>
> Quoting Brien Tourville <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > $552.00 per Tankful @ $3.00 gal.
> >
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/cy8yv
> >
> >
> >
> >              Brien.
> >          NEW YORK
> >    eagle registry #501
> > eagle kammback registry