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A little background to this sudden increase in Registry numbers.

It came about after Paul(r1lark) messaged me, advising "My family had a Packard Dealership (Packard Hempstead) in Hempstead, Long Island, New York from 1949 thru 1956, (and then Studebaker/Packard in a different location) and I have put all the new car sales records in an Excel file. There are about 1100 Packard new car sales listings from '49 thru '58." After referring Paul's advive to Kev, Kev then advised "....be prepared for a significant jump in the number of cars the Registry." That it certainly did, 1,119 more entries to be exact!
A HUGE to both Paul and Kev for bolstering Registry entries so significantly.

When Paul contacted me it wasn't with the intention of adding all these Packards to the Registry. Rather it was to see whether a comparison program could be run to see if any of the cars on Pauls list show up as cars listed in the Registry. If there were any matches, Paul would then be able to supply the current owners with the original purchasers names/addresses, being part of the information he had.

A little background to this sudden increase in Registry numbers.

It came about after Paul(r1lark) messaged me, advising "My family had a Packard Dealership (Packard Hempstead) in Hempstead, Long Island, New York from 1949 thru 1956, (and then Studebaker/Packard in a different location) and I have put all the new car sales records in an Excel file. There are about 1100 Packard new car sales listings from '49 thru '58." After referring Paul's advive to Kev, Kev then advised "....be prepared for a significant jump in the number of cars the Registry." That it certainly did, 1,119 more entries to be exact!
A HUGE to both Paul and Kev for bolstering Registry entries so significantly.

When Paul contacted me it wasn't with the intention of adding all these Packards to the Registry. Rather it was to see whether a comparison program could be run to see if any of the cars on Pauls list show up as cars listed in the Registry. If there were any matches, Paul would then be able to supply the current owners with the original purchasers names/addresses, being part of the information he had.

Just a quick follow-up to Kevin's and Mal's posts just above. First, thanks to Kevin for doing the comparison of my family dealerships' new sold cars database versus the Owner Registry database. Unfortunately there were no matches......not unexpected due to the fact that Long Island at that time used a lot of salt on the roads in the winter.

Also, thanks to Mal for the great job he does keeping the Owner Registry up, and searching out cars to be added!

Thanks guys!

Tom_F,
to PackardInfo and for including your '37 One Twenty Convertible Coupe in the Packard Vehicle Registry.

It's interesting to see how the statistical percentages change and shift as more and more cars are added to the Registry.

packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/registry/index.php?Action=stats

why all the new 23 sieries with no pics or info 1949 51950 out of new york? no owners or anything just serial numbers can you let me know , tanks

See post #870

Nate1958,
to PackardInfo and for including your '53 Clipper Deluxe Club Sedan in the Packard Vehicle Registry.

Dennis Long,
to PackardInfo and for including your '39 One Twenty 4 Door Touring Sedan in the Packard Vehicle Registry.

However, I'm "thrown" by the photo contained in the entry. The car pictured just doesn't LOOK right.

Gary(?) nosralyrag,
to PackardInfo and for including your '39 One Twenty Commercial Chassis in the Packard Vehicle Registry.