Packard Torsion-Level Suspension explained and demonstrated.

We put the 1956 Packard Patrician up on a lift to show you the amazing design of the famous Torsion-Level automatic leveling suspension system.

By 1955, the Packard Motor Car Co. was doomed. Despite a hopelessly optimistic buyout-merger with Studebaker in October of 1954, the company's fate was sealed, unfortunately. But that didn’t stop the venerable Motor City automaker from introducing a whole series of new engineering features, including a highly refined, durable and robust V8 engine with many horsepower and displacement options, an advanced and improved Ultramatic automatic transmission, and an innovative suspension system called "Torsion-Level Ride". Due to the company’s rapidly failing health, Torsion-Level was offered for only two years, 1955 and 1956, so the system isn’t very well known or understood today, so we hope to show you and demonstrate it here for better understanding.

In 1955, the system was made standard on all senior Packards and some Clipper models, optional on the rest of the line.

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