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Originally Posted by Jim Richards
It's hard to beat this...
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When the 59 Caddy came out it was thought to be over wrought and an overblown exercise in American excess. It was the FINS baby and all that chrome....and for decades everybody hated that car....BUT low and behold in the mid 80's it gained a following...and is now deemed to be a classic exercise in American excess...
The JAPS just loved that car...and drove prices...
You might say it is reflective of the American mindset at the end of the 1950's...a sign of the American zeitgeist...
Personally the 53 Eldo convertible would be my choice of a Caddy to own. the epitome of understated lines..