Re: Packard Cormorant Badge

Posted by BH On 2010/9/29 21:29:59

Thanks to many other members who have added titles (and cover images) from their own personal library, our Bookshelf feature far exceeds any discussion we had on that topic at another forum, years ago. Yet, I should update a few of my entries with some additional details; perhaps I'll add the Monstrous Car Spotter's Guide, as well - in due time.

Meanwhile, those "crash sheets" appear to have come from third-party collision estimating guides that were published back in the day, but have since been "parted out", by make and year for retail sale. Those guides do contain images to identify specific parts, but most were merely republished, with permission, from the manufacturers' own parts books. However, I believe that the front 3/4 model identification views were the publishers' own creations.

The front, side, and rear view line art that you mentioned can be found in the 1955-1956 Parts and Accessories List (aka - parts book) that we have on file, here at PackardInfo, in PDF. Check the Parts List section of the Literature and Manuals archive, and you'll find parts books for many other years, but we don't have them all (yet).

Those illustrations are in a section all their own for the 1955-56 and 1948-54 parts books; you need only download the section on Parts Plates for those editions. However, the 48-54 body illustration are either artistic renderings or B&W photos, rather than line art, and not every model is depicted. Parts books for earlier years/Series have illustrations interspersed in their related application listings of the Body section.

The 1957-58 models had a separate parts book for body parts, but combined Packard and Studebaker models. It's available here, too, but in one large PDF. Images are line art, but peppered among the application listings.

However, BigKev has also provided the parts plate illustrations from some of the more popular parts books, individually, as JPEG images in the site's Photo Archive, in the Exploded Part Plates folder. You can right-click and save those images to your computer.

You might be able to cut-n-paste your own spotter's guide, together with your own notes on the details.