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37buscoupe

Budd All Steel Door Co.

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My 37 115 C has metal plates on the doors that say 'Budd All Steel Door Co.' I know that Budd Mfgr. Co. supplied doors and bodies to Ford in the Model T and A era, supplied to Dodge, Packard, and a dozen European makers also. Does anyone know what years and models Packard used Budd doors? Rich

Posted on: 2012/11/13 9:15

Owen_Dyneto

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The 1941 conventionally styled cars have Budd-built doors and assume the same for 1942.

Posted on: 2012/11/13 9:21

bkazmer

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You're right - both 41 and 42 doors have a Budd plate in the front passenger door where the trim panel covers it.

Posted on: 2012/11/13 11:22

JWL

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Interesting that the doors on the 1935-37 juniors were Budd All Steel, but the bodies still had wood framing. Is this true of the seniors too.

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Posted on: 2012/11/13 11:25

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Owen_Dyneto

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The Super 8 was wood-framed thru 1938, the Twelve thru 1939.

Posted on: 2012/11/13 11:33

bkazmer

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Budd had a lot of experience in all-metal construction from streamlined corrugated railroad cars. The doors were obviously a separate contract from the bodies (wasn't Briggs doing the 41 - 2 bodies). The investment in tooling to convert the doors would be much lower than changing the big body stampings

Posted on: 2012/11/13 11:38

JWL

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We had a long discussion about Briggs building bodies for the 1941 and 1942 traditional bodied Packards. The conclusion was that at that time only the Clippers had bodies made by Briggs and that Packard continued to make the bodies for the other cars until production was stopped.

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Posted on: 2012/11/13 16:36

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