O Scale Motor Vehicle Chronicle March 13

Cadillacs on my layout.

Rextoys made some nice prewar Cadillacs. Here are a couple. I also have a Brooklin La Salle coupe. I'll take a picture of it later when I have time. 

 '38 coupe by Rextoys. Black car behind it is a Brooklin '36 Buick.

Pink convertible with an "odd couple" of passengers - the Pope and the notorious Italian porn star and member of Parliament "La Cicciolina." Rextoys put out a few cars with famous or notorious passengers. Some previous owner of this car took the Pope figure from his car and put it in with Ciccio, making this one of a kind. There was also a stretch convertible with FDR. 

Richard, the AmerComs are a lot of car for the money.

Here are the Cadillacs on my layout. 

One thing I love about this thread is not just learning a lot, but learning a lot about my layout.  Until I went upstairs to look I did not realize just how many Cadillacs I had.  My grandfather was a Cadillac man from before I was born.  I grew up around a lot of them. 

Here are some of mine. 

Veranda Turbine with her first, in '52.

Veranda Turbine in '59 - no matter how successful you are, it pays to marry money.

One of those you had pictured. 

Not sure who made this but it is nice . . . 

Two converted to 'Streets.  the green '53 is repainted to resemble exactly my Grandfather's '53 Cadillac, the first Cadillac (and first new car) I ever rode in (age four).

I have these three old ones.  The one in the middle is an ambulance version of their biggest version and is, near as I can determine, actually scale in spite of looking way to big.

One of my favorites, this Neo is spectacularly detailed inside and out.  

That brings back some memories. My father has a 1937 La Salle. He got it un-restored but with all the parts. We got it running (installed a rebuilt 1940 Buick carb) and drove it around the neighborhood a few times. Interesting car. My brother had it fully restored several years ago.

Rich:  Certainly a topic worthy of your attention,  Cadillac, that is.  I sold Cadillacs for a Milwaukee dealer back in 1966-67-68.  Our agency actually licensed and titled it's demonstrators that we each drove.  No tell-tale "dealer plates" for us!  Was a great experience for a couple of years and right now I'm negotiating on a 1967 deVille Convertible that is in an estate.

I also have at least 10 Cadillacs on my layout varying from hearses and limos to converts.  No scarcity of those models.  Also have a couple of the Brooklin models including that LaSalle 2-door sedan in your photo.

Incidentally, the Lionel "Early Era Inspection Vehicle" is supposed to be a 1938 Cadillac, although they have taken certain liberties with it's overall shape.  I suspect that if I'm caught in a weaker moment, I might just pop for one of those, although I doubt if it will see much service.

Paul Fischer

I've owned four...a '56 Coupe DeVille, '80 Fleetwood Brougham, and '82 and '86 Eldorados. I loved the look of these older ones, but new cars just don't do it for me anymore.

AGHR:  Oooo...I envy that LaSalle....Your dad has very good taste in cars. My great aunt had a '37 sedan, that I rode in as a kid, and I came within a hair of getting one (and the guy who had storage got in a hissy fit with another customer and the car sold while I was trying to get him to trust me and let me have a space).  Probably priced way out of my reach, now. My great aunt's was an unusual gold color (that they, three maiden sisters, partially color blind, thought was too close to yellow and almost but did not, returned).  The one I almost got...yeah, lots of ones that got away stories... was black like your dad's.  I don't like black cars, but this, and that, is a LASALLE! And what I strongly consider to be the best year, the first year with the return of the V-8 and the last year with the floorshift, popular with hot rodders, but where I want it.  (not that I don't like the 1933's and the 1940's) The aunts before had driven Franklins and were not happy the Depression took out Franklin, and their brother recommended LaSalle.  I am not interested in modern Cadillacs, but if some of these new smaller models were badged LaSalle, that would be interesting to me.  A 1937 LaSalle coupe would be one of my vintage dream cars.  Sure wish Brooklin on its GM series kick,

or somebody cheaper!!,  would do a 1937 LaSalle series.  One of my tiny towns

would probably gain a Caddy dealer, with a lot full of them.

Awesome Topic!!!