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passenger car (with the engine positioned under the driver's bench), the last with the noisy and not very reliable chain drive and, most important, the last with less than four cylinders. For a long time, J. W. Packard had been convinced that the single-cylinder engine was the power plant of the
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future. When it became obvious that the industry would lead another way, Packard followed suit with four-cylinder automobiles already in 1903. Thus, Model G remained the only passenger car with a twin (there also were some two-cylinder trucks), survived by the Model F by another year.
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Automobile Co. in many ways. It was the last Packard vastly developed by chief engineer and vice president
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front doors. Coachwork was made of high quality using wood, probably by a local carriage builder as with other
Packards. The customer had a free choice of colors. Upholstery was of qual quality, executed with top grain leather.
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was 56 in. (1,422 mm), in fact 0.5 in. (12.7 mm) less than Model F's. The car had the then-usual right hand steering. It was among the first US automobiles that featured a
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and investor George Lewis Weiss. Model G was a development of the former single-cylinder cars the company had built since 1899 of which the last,
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