1953 Cadillac Eldorado - - Class of '53 - - Entry #3

[om617]

Perfect 53 One of very few cars i think look better as convertible over solid roof.

[Ramfins59]

Thanks very much Mike & Tommy. I like convertibles a lot because the interiors show a lot better.

[bbowser]

Great score, and great job Rich. I like it a lot!

[Ramfins59]

Thanks a lot Bruce. It's not too often that I score a cheap deal like this one, but I keep looking for them.

[Grumpa]

Wow! I don't know how I missed this Rich, but it is a beauty! What a boat! Very nice!

[Greg Cullinan]

Beautiful Caddy. All of your class of 53s are amazing. Is there a story behind the class and will we have the pleasure of seeing em all together?

[Ramfins59]

Thank you very much Mark and Greg.

Greg, I am attempting to do a "Class of" build for every car that I can find for every year of the 1950's. I'm using either plastic kits, promo's, resin or diecast kits. I know that it is an ambitious project and will take me awhile to complete, but I'm enjoying the heck out of doing it so far. I love all the cars from the 50's and how the styles changed from year to year. Plus they had all that chrome...!!!

I will eventually be posting group pictures for each "Class" as I get enough of each year's cars completed.

Here's how the tally adds up at the moment;

1950 - 0 built.

1951 - 1 built

1952 - 0 built

1953 - 3 built

1954 - 0 built

1955 - 2 built

1956 - 6 built

1957 - 1 built

1958 - 9 built

1959 - 3 built

I have 17 more for those years in my "pile" yet to build and A LOT more still to buy and build.... and this doesn't include Corvettes and Thunderbirds...!!! As you can see, I'll be busy for awhile working on this extensive project.

Edited November 22, 2013 by Ramfins59

[Apriliadan]

Great find and build

[Greg Cullinan]

Richard,I'd say you put a nice dent in it so far.

It's a awesome idea,definitively the golden era of automobiles.

I always come up with similar ideas to try and build groups but I never commit.

[Ramfins59]

Thanks Greg. Yeah, after I had built 3 of the cars from 1958 I decided that I would try to build as many of the 58's as I could. Then it progressed to other 50's years cars until I committed to try to build them all.

[Skydime]

Cool Caddy! Sitting there all black, it reminds me of the hearse in the movie Dead Silence.

[Silver Foxx]

Looks real nice , the red / black combo is so classy looking.