The Packard Caribbean was a limited production model which made its debut in January 1953. It was Packards elite sport model, and was brought out to compete with the 1953 GM Autorama cars, namely the Cadillac Eldorado, the Buick Skylark, and the Olds Fiesta.The model only ran 4 years, ending with only 276 of this example built in 1956, the lowest production year for the Caribbean convertible. This car is #19 of those 276 units.