Hi,

thanks for the replies. No other plates / ID that I've been able to find, unfortunately.

Not sure what the rules are here as to photos, so I uploaded them off-site... hopefully these links work!

Front end parts:http://www.patooie.com/temp/packard/Packard_front_sm.jpg

Body:http://www.patooie.com/temp/packard/Packard_body_sm.jpg

Firewall:http://www.patooie.com/temp/packard/Packard_firewall_sm.jpg

Various:
http://www.patooie.com/temp/packard/Packard_bits_sm.jpg

Bumper and mounts (these look to change a lot across models, so may help with ID):
http://www.patooie.com/temp/packard/Packard_bumper_sm.jpg

(all images are 1024x768 res and around 600KB each)

Shame it's all beyond hope of salvage - it was obviously a really graceful car once.

cheers

Jules

Hi all,

A while ago we moved to a new house and I dug up some Packard bits right at the back of our yard (most of a front end, along with one rear fender and some bits of seating). The shape definitely looks to be 1930s-era Packard.

Now, separately, just off the property, there's the body of a Packard (sadly destroyed beyond all hope of salvage). I'm almost certain that the pieces I found belong to it - and it did provide a bodyshell number from the firewall.

Question is, is there any way of tracing the car's history just from the shell number - or would I need a license plate for that? I'd quite like to find out when it was built and what model it is, purely for curiosity!

cheers

Jules