Packard Station Sedan

The Packard Station Sedan was a luxury station wagon built by Packard from 1948 to 1950 on the reintroduced Eight platform, which let Packard sell a wagon without paying for a full wagon development program. It combined steel framing, steel passenger doors and structural northern birch panels, so that, unlike other woodies of its day, only the rear gate was wooden. It was not long enough to offer the optional third row seat of competing wagons from Buick, Chrysler and Mercury. Neither a sedan nor a true station wagon, it enjoyed limited success, listed at 3,459 dollars in its last year, and it was discontinued when the 1951 Packards were introduced.