Clipper Bodies

Posted by Ima48too On 2014/11/5 17:52:44

First, I've been a Packard fan since I started in 1959. Although they were always on the radar screen only a couple came home to roost over the years; well three, a 1955 Caribbean in 1965, only tens years old and I couldn't find a windshield for it, a 1955 Patrician with a stuck engine that I shouldn't have sold, and now the 1948 Deluxe Eight that I am enjoying. I was really happy to discover it is a modified Clipper body. I had been looking for a straight eight car for a while, searching Packard mostly and it just popped up the day after peeking through a garage window to see if a Commodore 8 was still around in need of liberation.

My question is about the diversity, or lack of it. I am figuring there is a sedan body and a limousine body. Other differences between Junior and Senior series appear to be in the front sheet metal to accommodate the longer wheelbases.
How am I doing? Are the doors, interior measurements, and the like the same on a 4 door sedan body, Junior or Senior? I know a limousine is longer.
Thanks, Bernie