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Packard Super Eight

Manufacturer	Packard
Production	1939-1951
Assembly	Detroit, Michigan
Body style	4-door sedan 2-door coupe 2-door convertible
Layout	FR layout
Wheelbase	127"(1939)[1] 120"(1946)[2] 127"(1949)[3]
Length	208"(1946)[4]

Packard Super Eight was the name given to the larger of the two eight cylinder luxury automobiles produced by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan. It shared frames and some body types with the top model Packard Twelve. Following the discontinuation of the Seventeenth Series Packard Twelve after the 1939 model year, a new Super Eight One-Eight was derived from the Super Eight as the new top car range. The Super Eight was renamed the Packard Super Eight One-Sixty. These two models shared most mechanical components including the 160 HP straight Eight engine.

After 1942, Packard concentrated on the new Clipper styling that was developed for an upper-class sedan the previous year. There were Super Clippers and Custom Super Clipper in the One-Sixty and One-Eighty tradition until 1947. After a heavy facelift, the name Clipper was dropped. The most senior Super Eight One-Eighty became the Custom Eight, while its slightly lower-priced sibling, the Super Eight One-Sixty, once again became simply the Super Eight. Clipper Custom Super Eights and Custom Eights were very close relatives to their respective Super models, distinguished outside by the lack of an eggcrate grille and small rear chrome trim moulding under t he trunk lid on Supers. In 1949, a new Super Eight Deluxe was added to the line. This car had also the Custom Eight's eggcrate grille, but not the rear trim.

The entire range of Packard's motorcars was renamed for the 1951 model year (twenty-fourth series), when the Super Eight was renamed 300, thus bringing to a close the long reign of the Packard Super Eight.

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  Packard Fifteenth Series Super Eight 1502 Touring Limousine 1937]]

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  Packard Seventeenth Series Super Eight 1705 1270 Touring Limousine 1939

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  Packard Eighteenth Series Super Eight One-Sixty 4-Door Touring Sedan 1940

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  Packard Super Eight

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