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| This is such an iconic car, it is the archetype of the early fifties
American car. I see that decade split cleanly between the rounded,
streamlined, swooping monsters of the first part of the decade and the
chrome and fins at the end. This car speaks for the former as the 59
Impala speaks for the fin machine at its most fabulous. I bought this in Boston Mass in September 2008. I was over there demonstrating my company's wonderful software to a big pharmacy retailer in Rhode Island and took the opportunity to take my wife with me and spend the weekend in Boston, one of the world's great cities and my favourite place in the US. On a sunny Saturday morning we were sitting having breakfast in Quincy Market and I spotted a market stall selling toy cars. I could not pass the opportunity by. I bought a nice '57 Chevy Bel-Air and this Cadillac - oh and a 65 Mustang key ring. It's interesting to compare it to the model of the same car made by Dinky in the fifties. The toys are exactly the same length and the features like windscreen, doors etc are at exactly the same places along the models, they share the same side profile, however the Dinky is miles too narrow. When I did my article on the Dinky Caddy I said that I did not believe that the modeller had ever seen the real car and that it looks more like the hand drawn artwork in the brochures of the time - now I am convinced that Dinky made their version without ever seeing the real car.
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