Packard Station Sedan

The Packard Station Sedan was a "pseudo station wagon " manufactured by the Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit from 1948 to 1950 . With this model, Packard had a car with the attributes of a station wagon, but was able to save the high development costs of its own station wagon program.

The station Sedan had a combination of steel frame, steel body parts and load-bearing wooden parts, which gave it the look of a "woody" station wagon. Unlike the other woodies of the time with wooden superstructures on their chassis, the Sedan station had a steel subframe and steel-framed doors onto which hardwood panels were screwed. The only wooden door in the whole vehicle is the rear door.

Both the sedan and station wagon had limited success and were no longer manufactured in the 1951 model year.

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Gunnell, John (Ed.): The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975 . Kraus Publications, 1987, ISBN 0-87341-096-3 .