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The common, big, wood framed body Senior sedans are expensive to restore thus depressing the value while the much more desirable open Seniors continue to rise.

The junior steel framed body sedans seem to be holding their own as are the junior open cars. Driving a Junior is real fun, light steering, tighter turning radius and the man on the street thinks you're in a million dollar car.

Just my 2 cents

The 35-37 juniors have wood as well, and it makes no difference in restoring a junior or senior at that point from a wood standpoint.

1928 roadster

losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cto/d/1928-packard-roadster/6325204194.html

1949 club sedan
omaha.craigslist.org/cto/d/1949-packard-2-door-deluxe/6324473882.html

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Yes, the 35-39 Juniors do have wood, but hardly any at all. The 35-37 closed cars have 90% of their wood in the center roof section which anyone who can use a saw can fabricate from scratch. The 35-39 Seniors have wood in all doors, most seat frames, the body shell etc, probably costs 10 times as much to replace the wood on a Senior than a Junior.

There was a reason that the Juniors needed as many employees in '37 to produce 100,000 cars as the Seniors needed to produce 5,000....and cost less than half as much.

38 & 39 juniors didn't have any wood IIRC.

41 club coupe with port holes. It has been for sale for quiet some time cause I remember posting this car a couple years ago.

tampa.craigslist.org/psc/cto/d/packard-1941-coupe/6328964934.html

1938 eight (?) Parts car
rockford.craigslist.org/cto/d/1938-packard-parts-car/6329323377.html

1940 frame chopped up
sandusky.craigslist.org/cto/d/1940-packard-frame-fatman/6328982266.html

That 1938 has potential.....

"It'll buff out!"

The '38 may be a few weeks away from headlining at Pebble Beach ...

What the seller calls a 1940 Packard seems to me to be an incidental designation. With the possible exception of the radiator frame on the front, practically everything else visible was cobbled together from other brands.

It looks like it was somebody's project that literally ran out of gas! The engine is an older Chevrolet, but the tires and wheels look fairly new. Perusing this forum you see examples of Packards turned into hot rods, customized Packards, woebegone barn finds, and gorgeous trailer queens.

This 1940(?) is a real head-scratcher.