Sweet Spot

I need to declare an interest here. I once owned a pair of mid-Sixties Cadillacs and I wish I had one now. I regard them as a bit of a high-water mark for the division, and the industry as a whole. And I may never get a better car with which to demonstrate the argument than Graham Macdonald’s wonderful ’64 Sedan DeVille.

Graham took his car to the NEC in November, where many of you will have had the chance to see it up close. At first, you think how nicely it’s been restored. Then you look a bit closer and wonder how they got certain areas to keep that untouched, original look. Finally, it dawns on you that it hasn’t been restored, it’s just had a very good repaint some time in the last decade or so and the interior’s barely been sat in. It is, in fact, as close to a nearly new 1964 car as you’re going to get.

The odometer is showing