Mart-Emmenes wrote:
Thank you, Ozstatman! Yes, both listings are for the same company - the one with the Havana "Prado" street address most likely being an earlier, circa 1920s location and the "53 Paseo de Marti" address most likely a later location I just got back from Cuba in June and probably wont be visiting Cuba again until sometime next spring but when I'm in Havana I'll definitely search out those addresses and see if any signs of a former Packard dealership and showroom remain at those location and get some photos.

I don't own a Packard myself - I wish I did. My closest connection to the marque is my now 85 year-old dad, who in 1950, bought an - 'extremely rare in Canada due to Canada's war effort starting in 1939, almost three years before that of the the US and thus officially not supposed to have been imported or sold here'- 1942-model Packard Clipper. The car was supposedly bought new by a doctor in 1942, which may explain how it came to be legally imported despite government war-time regulations banning new cars sales to most other civilians. The doctor appare4ntly died suddenly in 1945 and his still almost new car then sat untouched in a garage for 5 more years until my dad found it and purchased for just 150 dollars sometime around 1950. He still some photos of that car taken in 1950 or '51` that Ill try to get scanned and post.

I'm still curious about how many if any '55 and '56 Caribbeans may have been shipped new to Cuba.if anybody has that information.