{"id":820,"date":"2014-10-21T09:18:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2014-10-21T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T02:11:06","slug":"detroits-packard-plant-cranked-out-70000-engines-during-wartime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/detroits-packard-plant-cranked-out-70000-engines-during-wartime\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit\u2019s Packard Plant cranked out 70,000 engines during wartime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PT boats! Kittyhawks! Hurricanes with 40mm guns to rip open Nazi tanks! Mosquito bombers! And, of course, the mighty P-51 Mustang! What do all these marvelous manifestations of the Allies\u2019 mechanized might have in common?<\/p>\n<p>Why, they\u2019re all powered by might V12 motors assembled by America\u2019s Master Motor Builder: Packard. The film reel is all about the automaker\u2019s contributions outside the world of luxury automobiles, including motors for flying boats, tanks, zeppelins, speedboats and more. &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/autoweek.com\/article\/car-life\/film-friday-men-bet-their-lives-packard-v12\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Autoweek to read an article and watch a terrific movie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PT boats! Kittyhawks! Hurricanes with 40mm guns to rip open Nazi tanks! Mosquito bombers! And, of course, the mighty P-51 Mustang! What do all these marvelous manifestations of the Allies\u2019 mechanized might have in common? Why, they\u2019re all powered by might V12 motors assembled by America\u2019s Master Motor Builder: Packard. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats","category-tidbits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}