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I think it belongs to a member of the Motor City Pacckard club. I believe I have seen it a couple of times.
Posted on: 2008/11/12 21:31
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Whoa! I followed up with MIDan on the location for the car he spotted because it sounded like it was really near my stomping grounds. It's not only a 1956 hardtop, but a Caribbean at that! It's a shame to expose the car to the elements, but on this crisp but sunny day after a snowstorm in Metro Detroit, it did look kinda pretty like that...
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Posted on: 2008/12/7 16:43
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Wow! I never got close enough to it to see it was a Caribbean!
At FIRST I thought it was a daily driver...but I don't think it's moved since I first spotted it!
Posted on: 2008/12/7 22:26
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The car indeed belongs to a friend of mine, Larry Mckelvey. He bought the from Australia about 4 years ago.
Posted on: 2008/12/12 8:06
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Didn't Larry have a 1955 Caribbean convertible as well? Do you know if he still has it?
It must have been expensive to ship a car back from Australia, but I can see why he might have wanted to do it. Most of the '56 Caribbean hardtops seem to be Dover White/Danube Blue/Roman Copper, but I think it's a lot more spiffy in this color combo! Can't say I'd ever seen one like that before.
Posted on: 2008/12/13 9:41
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Right now he also has a 1936 standard-8 he just bought on eBay. No 55 conv.
Posted on: 2008/12/13 13:56
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Detroiters will also remember when John Sullivan used to drive his '56 Carribbean in the winter. I remember it at the Deer-bern community center for MCP meetings and once saw it parked front-first into a snowbank in the Tel-Twelve mall parking lot.
Posted on: 2008/12/13 18:01
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Dang! I've been in Detroit for 15 years now, and I don't remember this Sullivan guy or his Caribbean. Can you fill me in with more of the story? Whatever became of the car?
Posted on: 2008/12/13 19:54
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Ahhh, you know John, he owns the burnt grilled cheese sandwich tow-toned orange '34 12 short sedan, lives in Livonia. He sold the Carribbean eons ago, I want to say very early 80s, just after I bought my 400.
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