Re: Information needed

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2019/9/6 11:53:24

The number is known as a "theft-proof" or "body serial" number. Bodies were numbered sequentially starting in 1929 and ending in 1956. Only the tiniest scraps of original factory data remain on these numbers. It is simply a unique number for each body (as Packard said, to be used to identify a car if other numbers are missing or mutilated), no further data is encoded into it.

My data which I've been accumulating for some years now shows the range for the senior 15th series bodies from 279178 thru 399434. That puts your car at about the midpoint. Your number is not in my database of nearly 4000 cars; if you'd give me the VN and particulars by PM I'd be most happy to have the data included.