Love that Packard. That's going to give you a lot of pleasure on the road, as it's hard to beat a Packard for comfort and ride.
Concerning the Buick comments: I had a '60 Lesabre with the dynaflow transmission, and it was very reliable and smooth as silk, but slow. It had a substantial V8 engine, but the only way you could get much "oomph" out of it was to pull the shifter down into Low and manually upshift to drive about 40 MPH, otherwise taking off from a dead stop was pretty pitiful. Admittedly, it was the smoothest transmission I've ever driven. Only after owning and driving one did I realize how wise the Buick division was to drop it in favor of the hydromatic.
I've never heard of the term "slushbox" for the dynaflow, but have laughed at the old wag "Slip and Slide with Powerglide"
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