58L8134 posited:
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One would think that since they contracted with Ionia to build 750 Caribbeans, would not want to pay to punch the trim mounting holes then pay again to close them.
I wouldn't be too confident about that.
The 56 Executive, though based on a Clipper chassis and main body shell, used Senior front fenders. While both Junior and Senior lines used the same big, die-cast fender molding, the Senior fenders were punched for a short molding below that, but the Junior models were punched for a higher molding that ran above.
I have a reconditioned front fender for an Exec, and on the back side, I found little tombstone-shaped (punched) pieces of sheet metal had been tack over the holes that were pre-punched for Senior trim. From the outside, you can barely see outlines of the original holes in the primer, but I haven't ground the primer back to see what kind of filler was used.
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