Re: 1955 Packard No Engine Number?

Posted by PackardV8 On 2008/10/25 22:21:59

Stuggling companies and prior to government control ca. late 60's used alot of tricks to fake out the competition, public, dealers, stock holders, et-al into believing that they were running more units than they actually were building or had orders for. This would have been especialy true in the last years of Packard.

One example i will cite is Indian in '53. Indian started out VN's higher than usual and changed the f/t. This was to make HD and Indian dealers think that they were gung-ho to build bikes when in reality they only built 300 and stopped production and went out of bussiness. The '53 VN's are still argued to this day but the general concensus is that Indan WAS playing games to over embellish demand image.

Other issues invlove special build or fleet vehicles that were rejected and sent onto dealers and they had VN'S higher than production figures.

So, PMCC is probably guilty of the same tricks in 55-56.