We’d all like to jump into a time machine and travel back to America at some random date in the Fifties or Sixties to observe our favourite cars in their natural habitat, but if I had a Tardis at my disposal I’d be tempted to head for London instead. If anything, American cars, though scarce over here, looked even more spectacular than in their homeland. When I first saw this 1963 Cadillac Series 62 convertible at Olympia early in 2023, I noted the short registration number, which told me that it had been in the country from new or nearly-new. Instantly, I formed a black-and-white image of it gliding along Pall Mall and around Trafalgar Square, growling at Hillmans and baring its big chrome teeth at little Morrises.
Its owner, Pete Valente, was happy to give me the full picture. After leaving the production line in shimmering Nevada Silver, it was despatched to England to be
