Re: Body Dash Numbers

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/10/13 22:38:15

Thanks for the info, your BDN is right about in the middle of the range I have for the 41 cars with the Clippers just comingled apparently at random with the conventional bodies. Your engine # is correct for a 1951 chassis; None of the various sources I have for motor numbers give an explanation for the "C" suffix, though the senior 1941 cars used a "C" prefix in front of the "D" prefix to differentiate a 160 engine from a 180 as both began with the same year prefix ("D" for 1941). Thus the senior 356 engines for the 160 began at D500001 and the 180s began at CD500001. Chrysler liked to use such suffixes to denote undersize main or rod bearings or oversize bores, though I'm not aware that Packard did so. In any case the information is recorded and thanks.