James, thank you for the photo. I wish we were not on different sides of the country. Here is a photo of my fender with tape over the four holes. This was done for visual assistance. I believe the holes on fender are lower than those indicated on your photo. What do you think?

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Thanks for sharing your progress. Your talent is amazing.

A few months ago I looked at a 37 Three window rumble seat super 8 coupe. It was in similar condition. The coupes are my favorite body style. I told the gentleman that I could not make the numbers crunch in favor of buying the car and did not make an offer. A friend once told me if the car were free and they gave you twenty thousand dollars it may still be to expensive. I think this car qualifies. That being send if you do decided to restore it.....

1) Do the windows first. They will soften the voice of your wife as declares your brilliance and it will help water proof the car for habitation.

2) Restore the car and put on steel railway wheels and a cow catcher and deduct the costs as a business expense. I'm sure the government will have no problem with this.

Best Wishes,

I have not. This car spent the last fifty plus years on several family farms. Lots of mud caked up inside fenders and other places.

Brian, thank you for your reply. The link was very interesting. If you refer to the diagram,look at the three triangles at the rear of the fender and drop down about three inches that is the location of the four holes. They are quite small and have been filled with a different filler than the upper trim piece holes.

Matt

Steve, I understand the Production Caribbeans were sent to Ionia with out the trim holes.

I did not remove the paint from the rear quarter panels, so I can't tell you what is back there. At the time I was removing paint the car was parked in an unheated shed and I the bare metal would have rusted. The cars current location, although heated, also contains my restored Nash-Healey. Please excuse me if I don't rush out the to sand or throw chemicals at the Caribbean.

I have started a list of what I think are unique things about this car. (How is that for a disclaimer). But, as I have mentioned before not quite ready to spills all those beans.

Matt

Kelvin, it is my turn to apologize. I had forgotten about the wording on the invitation to register the car. The registration asks what my plans for the car are, I picked the one I thought was the only one that said resale. I DO NOT plan on restoring this car. I may yet try and get in running.

The chrome pieces from on top of the quarter panels are in the trunk. At some point they were removed and the holes crudely filled in.

You mentioned the build sheet. This is not the first time I have heard this and probably won't be the last. My car came out of a barn and to call it a mouse palace would be a major understatement. I just have no faith that it is on top of the glove box. To climb through the car to get to the glove box is surely worthy of a tetnis shot.

May I suggest getting a copy of Leon Dixon's book The untold story of Detroits Secret Concept Car Builder and a copy of Packard 1951 To 1954, by Robert J. Neal both books have both answered questions for me as well as posed more questions.

Might be a reason for system envy.

Sorry, the photos are up right on my phone.

With any luck there should be two photos attached. Please look at them carefully. Notice any difference? A friend pointed it out to me.

The tail light mounting angles are different. One is much more pronounced than the other.

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