Re: 1940 160 convertible sedan

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2014/12/16 18:25:45

So, in my opinion, even though it's a correct engine, the huge difference in build-date of the engine (August 10, 1939), and delivery date (July 20, 1940) of the car throws up a red flag.

Assuming the VN is correct (which isn't known), I'd say more like a pale yellow flag. The engine early build date is reasonably consistent with the early vehicle number and if you examine lots of senior car plates you'll quite often find early VNs with very late sale dates for the less-common and upper price-range cars. At the beginning of a model run Packard would want at least a few examples of all their offerings to be available for the public to see, whether they had a firm order or not.