Re: 1953 Caribbean Firewall/Inner Fender color

Posted by Leeedy On 2014/4/25 11:23:12
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Let the ride decide wrote:
Don't forget to look at the pictures, although this one looks like a special one. Did the 53 have script down that low, and the wire caps look different.https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/uploads/photos/9023.jpg

Video is good too,http://www.packardclub.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2604

The rear tire cover in the commercials is chrome, did the early ones have chrome, and the latter ones painted?


RE: the photo link in this post... Okay... the first photo link is a picture of the original 1953 Caribbean prototype. Yes, this car had a Packard script mounted low on the front fenders. Final production spec deleted this script from the front fenders and moved one of them to the rear on the continental kit.

A rear view of this same car with the same occupants is shown on Page 81 of "Packard Motor Cars 1946-1958 Photo Archive" edited by Mark A. Patrick. The only wire wheel cap that was different was the one on the continental kit.

RE: the video links in this post... The Caribbean shown in the video links is a regular production version 1953 Caribbean.

Also note that the video announcer correctly pronounces the name "care-a-bee-yun" and not "krib-yun" which is just just plain wrong and is a modern concoction of tourists (no matter how many ships are called that way).

Most people who have long ancestries in the Caribbean (as I do) will tell you that the name of the sea in that area was derived from one of the two original native inhabitants of the region. These were the Caribs and the Arowacs. The Caribs were obviously not known as the "cribs" but rather pronounced "care-rib." Anyway, the name of the Packard convertibles we love is accurately pronounced "care-a-bee-yun."

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