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Hi all,

I've been trying to find something that will decode the trim codes for the '51 Packard in general and Patrician in particular. The soon to be mine Patrician has the remains of a dark blue and "Some lighter Color" wool (I presume). In the '51 Packard handouts show a Patrician with dark blue exterior and a blue & sort of a yellowish cream interior.

I've looked through the on site fabric samples but couldn't find anything familiar. I'm also having trouble reading the trim code on the door plate. If anyone can help me out as to what my interior was or where to look to decode them myself, I'd be very grateful. It looks like 1951 is one of the few years that we don't have the salesman fabric book for.

Here's the plate (hopefully).

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Trim codes are shown at the front of the parts list.
The trim reference chart on page XVII shows 6 codes for body 2452 (Patrician) with the description for seat material on page XIX

501 / 601 Tan Broadcloth
502 / 602 Green Broadcloth
503 / 603 Blue Broadcloth (shown as 605 on page XVII but probably a misprint)

Not sure what the differences are between 500's and 600's but 501/2/3 was also used on the 23rd Series Custom 8 so perhaps carried over to the 24th Series until used up.

Door panels used the same broadcloth as the seats for the outer portion with a taupe colored broadcloth center.

Perhaps this will help, photos of an exceptional unmolested 51 Patrician, paint code "K" (Valiant Green metallic) and trim code 601. Don't be mislead by factory handouts and advertising material illustrations, they were often more fanciful than representations of actual production cars. I would expect the "blue" interior follows the same style and use of contrasting colors as the 601 shown.

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Sorry, I was going from memory on the door panels and got the pattern reversed.
Here is a photo of a 1951 Patrician rear door panel for trim code 503.

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The one place I didn't look - and it makes sense it'd be there too!

My thanks to BdeB & O_D for the help and the pictures. The "blue" door panel that BdeB posted last is a duplicate of the best door panel on the car so that's excellent.

I found what I thought were trim codes on the right side of the glove box when it was all the way out.

54 Cavalier.

Jim