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Hard to say. I do know that at the Annual 2019 PI meeting it rained cats & dogs with maybe 2 to 3 inches of rain and they left their car home. We drove the wife's '55 Caribbean the 70 or so miles there. We had no (or little) rain while traveling, but the car had a major windshield leak.

I know if the car sits for a week or more it does not like to start, but once she does it is easy starting.

BTW - since they left their car home, the wife's car finished with a first place in it's class. Proofing that behind every rain cloud there is some sunshine.

Congratulations!

Here are some remaining pieces of a 1955 Packard Caribbean top.

Looks to be 3 ply fabric, the color side, rubber middle and a silky fine weave top.

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Here is some NOS 1955 Packard Caribbean top pads.

One green

One blue

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Yes. This is very, very common construction for a convertible top of that era and even now. The big difference us usually the outer layer. The inner layer was cotton weave and later, poly-cotton. The middle later is butyl rubber. The silky outer layer for the 1955 Caribbean was Orlon, which, as I have said was changed for 1956.