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Brian, (thanks) for tabulating the '42 models in Post #9...
No problem, Mal. All I had to do was perform a copy-n-paste from the on-screen list of models as displayed for 1942 to Notepad, apply a little editing to allow import of the text into a spreadsheet, edit the model names, and then paste the work into a post, here.
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Meanwhile, I'll await confirmation of the naming conventions and undertake any massaging once agreement is reached.
Since my last post, I corrected some typos in the list that I originally provided. I also found and corrected an error WRT to body 894; though
Model Info showed its chassis as 2008, it is actually 2007.
Meanwhile, I received some advance info on the 42 cars from
BDeB. It supports my notion of categorization by
Six,
Eight,
Super Eight One-Sixty, and
Custom Super Eight One-Eighty. However, Packard also used
6,
8,
160, and
180 as shorthand in some notations. Then, it seems that
Special and
Custom distinctions apply Clipper models, but not the three carry-over models - two Convertibles and the Taxicab - in the 6 and 8 lines.
Yet, the official syntax for the full names of Clipper models still proves to be elusive. So, I've left 'Clipper' positioned in the nomenclature for the 6 and 8 lines as before - following the pattern that I've seen used, in print, more often for the 160 and 180 lines. I chose to retain the terms
Special and
Custom as a prefix for 6 and 8 models - in the same way as the term
Custom is used to distinguish the 180 from the 160 line.
The revised list, then, is as follows:
2000 1582 Special Six Clipper Touring Sedan
2000 1585 Special Six Clipper Club Sedan
2000 1588 Special Six Clipper Business Coupe
2001 1592 Special Eight Clipper Touring Sedan
2001 1595 Special Eight Clipper Club Sedan
2001 1598 Special Eight Clipper Business Coupe
2003 1572 Super Eight One-Sixty Clipper Touring Sedan
2003 1575 Super Eight One-Sixty Clipper Club Sedan
2004 1562 Super Eight One-Sixty Touring Sedan
2005 1570 Super Eight One-Sixty Touring Limo
2005 1571 Super Eight One-Sixty Touring Sedan
2006 1522 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty Clipper Touring Sedan
2006 1525 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty Clipper Club Sedan
2006 1529 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty Special Darrin Victoria Convertible
2007 1532 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty Formal Sedan
2007 1542 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty Touring Sedan
2007 _894 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty All Weather Cabriolet by Rollson
2008 1520 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty Touring Limo by LeBaron
2008 1521 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty Touring Sedan by LeBaron
2008 1550 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty Touring Limo
2008 1551 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty Touring Sedan
2008 _895 Custom Super Eight One-Eighty All Weather Town Car by Rollson
2010 1502 Custom Six Clipper Touring Sedan
2010 1505 Custom Six Clipper Club Sedan
2011 1512 Custom Eight Clipper Touring Sedan
2011 1515 Custom Eight Clipper Club Sedan
2020 1589 Six Convertible Coupe
2021 1599 Eight Convertible Coupe
2023 1579 Super Eight One-Sixty Convertible Coupe
2030 1584 Six Taxicab
2055 1590 Super Eight One-Sixty Business Limo
2055 1591 Super Eight One-Sixty Business Sedan
Be advised that I've retained some of the site's own shorthand as evidenced in adjacent Years/Series for consistency (e.g. - Limo). That eliminates the potential problem of longer model names.
So, let me know if these model names are acceptable or if you have other evidence to support the need for further revision.
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