This is one of more than 50,000 two-door coupe Cadillacs built in the 1966 model year – 50,580, to be precise. The scale of the US auto industry can be mind-boggling to those raised in Britain; this quantity of Cadillacs would equip every single house, flat or any other dwelling in Gloucester or Rotherham or Watford with a new car. It’s probably enough to make every household in Derry, Paisley or Wrexham into a two-car family. And that’s just one body style from one division from one year.
Cadillac didn’t even make that many cars compared with other divisions within GM, or with Ford, or with Chrysler’s mass-market offerings from Dodge and Plymouth. It gives a hint to America’s enormous economic boom which was still going so strongly in the mid-Sixties, with only the odd hiccup since the end of the war. More than 50,000 people felt able to spend well over $5000 on a
