Re: 1942 One Sixty Sport Sedan What-If

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2011/1/26 18:28:18

The sport sedan style makes sense but why the retrograde body??!! Was the owner or Derham convinced that wood composite bodies were quieter?

Undoubtedly it IS quieter, but the simple reason is that that was the body style the purchaser wanted, and you need tens of thousands of bodies to have a chance to amortize the cost of the stamping dies, thus aluminum panels over wooden framing, similar to all the senior Packards thru 1938 and the Twelve thru 1939.