1956 Caribbean Production

Posted by Kiff Rule On 2024/4/4 7:37:02

Morning all. I was pondering the 56 Caribbean production and did some guess-timating. I'd be curious to get any thoughts. Assuming that there are 263 Hard Tops, production began in Nov 1955 and ended June 25 1956 (8 months of production / 263), that would be approximately 33 cars built a month - acknowledging some ramping up the first month or so, looking at the cars produced each month - would it be safe to assume I could determine when my car was approximately made based upon that formula; in my case may/june.

In the absence of a build sheet (I'm told they received the archives with those records missing), I also see the dates stamped on the dashboard gauges with similar dates.

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