Re: Vehicle serial number locations

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/4/9 14:11:25

I believe that once the patent plate (vehicle # plate) is removed, there is no way other than through old documentation if available, to recover your #. There is the extremely slim chance, about 1 in 100,000 that I might have a record of it if you will provide the thief-proof #, the large embossed # on the engine side of the firewall.

Gee, it seems like 25% of the Packards that are surfacing these days are missing the patent plates, what is happening to them all? I know there are some folks that strip them and sell them on eBay, and I understand that once in a while one might get lost in the process of a restoration, but that hardly seems to be enough to account for the numbers that are missing. What a shame, you loose any chance to connect with the car's past.

Some folks have speculated that in a few years the # also appeared on the frame, but I've never seen one nor had it confirmed, either in person or by any Packard documentation.