Chrome Grille — 2 museum-grade prints in this palette. The Packard Caribbean was produced from 1953 to 1956 with limited annual production — 750 in 1953, 400 in 1954, 500 in 1955. Packard Motor Car Company merged with Studebaker Corporation in 1954; the last genuine Packard cars were produced in 1956, after which only badge-engineered Studebakers carried the Packard name until 1958. The 1953 Cadillac Eldorado was unveiled at the GM Motorama in New York and produced in a run of 532 units at $7,750, nearly double the standard Series 62 convertible. Its wraparound windscreen and cut-down door line directly influenced production Cadillacs through the rest of the decade.