Re: 22nd-23rd Series Book

Posted by Robert J. Neal On 2010/5/18 12:49:07

Hello all,
As most of you know, I am currently writing a book on the 1948 through 1950 cars. A very interesting subject, I might add. The renumbered car have always been somewhat of a mystery because Packard never revealed exactly how they chose to assign the new numbers. We only have surviving cars or dealer records to go by. I am building a data base, roster if you prefer the term, and one of its aims is to figure out just how Packad did their renumber thing. The data base now exceeds 2,000 numbers by quite a bit but still contains NO renumbered cars in several significant areas, which is difficult to explain. The missing body types with renumbered cars are noted below. I note in each case about where the numbers start for cars to be considered as renumbered. If you have or know of a car with a vin number at or above the noted numbers, please send it to me.

It is important to send ALL NUMBERS of the car. These include the # on the vin plate, the # on the Briggs body plate, the embosed body serial (firewall) number and the engine number. Comparing these numbers is the final determination as to whether the car was actually renumbered.

2292-9-20900 and above (Eight sedan)
2295-9-5500 and above (Eight club sedan)
2262-9-62000 and above (Deluxe Eight sedan)
2265-9-17250 and above (Deluxe Eight club sedan)
2272-9-19000 and above (Super Eight sedan)
2275-9-3800 and above (Super Eight club sedan)

There must be some cars out there which fall in the above ranges.

By the way, when this book project is over I will transfer all this data on a computer file to the PAC roster keeper who tracks these cars.

I guess you can call this the latest update on the project and its needs. Hope to hear from a bunch of you guys. Someone out there has got to own one of these mystery cars!

Robert