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Posted For Sale on this site (in the For Sale section), my rather rare 1955 Packard Patrician. What makes this rather rare is its a late in the year model build car with 1956 side trim, that appears to be either factory built or dealer installed. Anyone on this site have any experiences or info of late in the year model builds with '56 trim or parts? The previous owner of this car gave me a letter from The Packard Club in Oakland CA verifying that a few late model year '55's were in fact built with '56 trim. Whether this is factory built or dealer installed is not known and hence any information of others experiences/sitings of cars of this nature would be helpful.....Jimmy S. Akron, Ohio

What might be useful to know the vehicle number. Somewhere I've read of a 56 which was clearly a redressed 55 with 56 features; speculation was that it was a factory mule of the next series and IIRC it had a very low vehicle number, perhaps 1001 or something like that. So either a very high 55 VN or a very low 56 VN might add some creditability.

Vehicle number?

Seems like a very nice car. Always been enamored with black colored Patricians, especially ones with '56 trim. Re: the pictures of the engine bay, are those heads red in color?

Indeed sir. Those engines will perform given TLC by dedicated owners. You mentioned the serial number and I wonder given the red colors if the s/n on the front top of the block matches as well please?

What are the paint and trim codes?

G'day Junkyardguy, Jimmy,
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And, before your Patrician is sold, I invite you to include it in the Packard Owner's Registry here on PackardInfo!