JW, It may be a long shot but if you know a police officer he may be able to get his forensic unit to try and resurrect the dealer name if it was ever stamped. I have had firearms with serial numbers filed off that were retrieved in this way.
Confederate records would be much more difficult to locate than Union ones I imagine. Over the past 40 years I have had the privilege to visit most of the major battlefields of the Civil War and they are indeed impressive. It is hard to believe that what is now serene parklands were so full of such terrible and deadly conflict not so long ago. The National Parks Service does a wonderful job in maintaining and interpreting for visitors these hallowed grounds.

Only difference I have found is the Studebaker version oil pump has a thicker bottom plate and no vacuum pump. Cam and gears are the same.

Still trying to verify that '55 HRM article stating the Hash engines have a steel cam. Does anyone have part numbers confirming a different cam, lifters and distributor for Hash?

thnx, jack vines

O_D, I just checked the VN plate, and indeed there is a place for the dealer's name and city. Only the date is stamped. The plate has been polished so the spaces for these two entries were not obvious. I believe it to be a valid and original plate. Thanks for the page two. What is the date of the dealer listing?

Thanks for the reply on Bob Cutler.

Often wrong, but never confused.

Oops, sorry about that, I forgot page 2. If your patent plate doesn't have a space for the selling dealer and date, I'd suspect a bogus plate has been affixed and the original gone who knows where, so please update us on this when you have a second look.

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O_D and Clipper47, I'll take another look at the VN plate. It will not be the first time that I have been mistaken. All of your suggestions are appreciated. I got the Clark Motor Sales information from a classified ad in one of the newspapers left in the car. O_D, curious that the list of dealerships stops at the "O" lettered cities. I can also check with the local historical association, and see if they have anything like a city directory listing from the time.

My grandfather was a veteran of the CSA, and fought and was wounded at Chickamauga. The Confederate records are scarce and incomplete, making the research task more difficult. My brother and I visited the battle ground site a few years ago, and were most impressed with the monuments and statues. Anyway, I'll not use any more bandwidth on this subject.

Don't know if this will be of any assistance to you, but below is a list of Packard's Michigan dealers; not sure of the date of publication but I believe it is just pre-war.

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Perhaps another case of someone confusing a motor number with a casting or part number? I haven't used Kev's new motor number list, but my data shows that as a motor number for a 2nd Series 2-36 or 2-43 (big 8). The correct Packard part number for a 1935 Eight crankcase is 215244 (same as 11th and 14th series small 8) with engine #s running from 385001 thru 390301, according to an old PAC publication.

Kev, I haven't yet checked your list against my several sources but will do so, and congratulations on a noble effort, its an addition to this site that I'm sure will see much use.

Thanks Owen. VERY good point about the pin seat geometry changing.

Jack. Have u found any difference between Hawk and Packard cam shafts or timing gears ????????

The engine number provided by the person Mal posted for in the original post of this thread does not seem to match Big Kev's newly (and very handy) introduced engine number chart. I am really not sure what engine he has, but surely will not know unless he is able to post more info. A very interesting thread non-the-less.

Jim