jewel in the Crown
Mid-Fifties Cadillacs are to some eyes not the prettiest cars; they don’t have the lean, crisp styling of the ’49s nor the purposeful, eye-popping ‘look-at-me’ presence of the ’59s or ’60s with their outrageous fins and low, wide stance. The mid-Fifties Cadillacs were heavy and bulbous, but these were Cadillac’s boom years, with the company producing more than 150,000 cars every year despite them being priced up to almost $6000 when the average house price in 1954 was just $18,000!
The Eldorado had been introduced in 1953 as part of an exclusive line of General Motors limited production convertibles, which included the Buick Roadmaster, Skylark, the Oldsmobile 98 Fiesta and Chevrolet Corvette. The Cadillac made use of a special body unique to its nomenclature and
