Re: Budd body tag

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2014/4/10 22:23:06

If you're asking if the Briggs body number matches the vehicle number, the answer is almost never prior to 1951. In 1951 and after you could be reasonably certain they matched though there are a few exceptions. Briggs numbered the cars sequentially as they built, painted and trimmed the cars and then shipped them to Packard. But they weren't necessarily assembled into finished cars in the same order that the bodies were built; numbers sometimes can vary by as much as 400 (or even more) and sometimes are within 25 or less.