Re: Packards at Scotty's Castle
Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2011/9/25 8:20:17
The number on the firewall was billed as the "thief proof" number, but so far as I know not one shred of paper has ever come out linking that number to a specific car on file at the Packard plant. Numerous cars left the factory without one.
Tim: One of my two articles on the thief-proof numbers as published in The Packard Cormorant showed a copy of an original Packard record correlating the thief-proof number to a specific vehicle, the record called the "vehicle unit record". As pointed out, only a small number of these records have been uncovered and those that do are the dealer copies. I'll enclose a copy of that record, this one from the Raymond Pautz collection.
Packard initiated the thief-proof number with the 6th Series (1929) and continued it thru 1956 with the exception of a portion of the model year 1940.
Sorry, I missed the "build #44" when I wrote my original response.
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Tim: One of my two articles on the thief-proof numbers as published in The Packard Cormorant showed a copy of an original Packard record correlating the thief-proof number to a specific vehicle, the record called the "vehicle unit record". As pointed out, only a small number of these records have been uncovered and those that do are the dealer copies. I'll enclose a copy of that record, this one from the Raymond Pautz collection.
Packard initiated the thief-proof number with the 6th Series (1929) and continued it thru 1956 with the exception of a portion of the model year 1940.
Sorry, I missed the "build #44" when I wrote my original response.
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