Owen -
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From Turnquist's book, body type 1099 was not available on a "CD" chassis. The "CD" body types were 1094, 1096, 1098 on the 120 inch wheelbase and 1091 and 1092 on the 138 inch wheelbase. So a 1099 cannot be a CD.
The body types that you noted don't fully mesh with what's shown in our
Model Info for 1937 and the table on page 6 of the
1935-41 Packard Parts List's Body Section. According to those references, "CD" body types were 1092, 1094, 1096 on the 120CD chassis and 1090 and 1091 on the 138CD chassis.
I checked my copy of the Turniquist book and found same error regarding body types for the 120CD, but it correctly shows 1090 and 1091 for the 138CD. That wouldn't be the first discrepancy I found in that book, but it was one of the first books of its kind.
However, we're all in agreement that the 1099 body was not offered on either CD chassis.
I'm certainly no expert on prewar cars, but your post caught my eye because I had wrestled, at length, with Series, chassis and body designations in assigning Recommended Literature to Model Info pages as well compiling content for the site's Service index for vehicles of this period.
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