Thank you for the great answer! In the nearly half-century of owning Packards and even running a Web site about them, this is the first I had heard that the Mayfair and Convertible were in the 300 series as I thought that only the Cavalier on the longer 127" wheelbase had that distinction although, of course, I knew that the Pacific and Convertible of 1954 were senior cars, although I never thought of them as being in one series or another. Very interesting indeed! Of course I also knew that they were 200 in 1951 which, as you so deftly pointed out, was very strange indeed and defies logic.
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Yes, if by model number you mean 200, 300, 400, etc. but for finding part numbers almost always you either need the chassis # for mechanical parts or the body number for body parts. The model # is really kind of irrelevant.
No, that's not exactly what I meant. I was referring to the model numbers as listed in the Packard Model Info of this site which I thought shows some not mentioned in the parts book. In the parts book are entries such as:
2401-02-06; 2501-02-06-31; 2601-02-06-11-31-33; 5400-01-02-06-11-31-33
. . . which I take to mean:
2401 2502 2406; 2501 2502 2506 2531; 2601 2602 2606 2611 2631 2633; 5400 5401 5402 5406 5411 5431 5433
. . . and which are the Model/Chassis numbers on this site and Body Number in the parts book. However, I was sure I had seen similar entries in the parts book that showed numbers like 5482 5489 5492 5495 5497 which are Chassis Number in the parts book but now that I am looking for an example I cannot find one so perhaps I imagined it! That's what happens when you look at data like this so closely for so long: it all starts to become a blur.
Anyway, I am looking forward to a Henney expert chiming in with additional comments on that part of my question so thanks again for your excellent answer on the rest.
By the way, I have found a number of parts book entries that are just plain incorrect with the wrong model or part numbers!
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