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.

Hi, all. This my first post here. Being Canadian and living in Canada, over the years I've been able to make numerous trips to Cuba. As most people know, Cuba still has thousands of 1940's right up to 1959 model-year American cars still on the road and in daily use, with the conditions of them ranging from a very few, nicely restored and/or well maintained ones to completely decrepit, butchered and cobbled up barely running monstrosities. When I'm there I'm always on the lookout for Packards. While Packards are not one of the more common makes of American cars still in daily use there , I have seen several, mostly late '40's to early 50's Clippers and Patricians and one very rough but still fairly original 1954 Caribbean convertible. I'm wondering, does anybody know the name of the Cuban Packard importer and distributor during that era? Since most 'pre-1959 revolution' buildings in Cuba are still in use and mostly unchanged and still in their original form,with their original facades and cast or carved signage still intact, with a company name to go by and start my search for an address with, I could probably track down and photograph the original office and showroom. Also, does anyone know of any 1955 or '56 Packard Caribbeans being shipped new to Cuba and if so so, how many?? If there were some '55 and '56 model Caribbeans sold new there and if any have survived, finding and photographing one and talking to the owner and possibly even getting a ride in it(!) would be a truly amazing treat.