Re: 1940 Packard120 Club Coupe 1801

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2013/10/29 11:21:37

I'm curious, just what do you see wrong with the data he supplied?

I don't have the data he has, but that the club coupes were less than 10% of 1940 "120" production total is entirely consistent with other analyses, for other years and models, that try to project production totals of individual body styles. These analyses are done by using the highest known production sequence portion of the vehicle number for each body style and then reconciling them against the total production.

Of the 28,158 1940 "120" models, other researchers have deduced from such analyses that at least 20,281 were the 4-door touring sedan and that leaves about 8000 to be distributed over the remaining 8 or so body styles.

Also, another researcher, Charles Blackman, has also estimated the Club Coupe at about 2584 units produced. He probably had access to the same raw data.