Foreword

12/30/2017 Foreword
I prefer the lines of the 1960 Eldorado models; I consider them much prettier, if somewhat less emphatically styled than
their
1959 counterparts; the '60 convertible was repainted the original Siena Rose color (Code 98) and had all white leather
upholstery
and top; the hard boot was missing but (I refused to pay one fifth the price of the car just to put on for that finishing touch!
For a while also we had a white 1976 Seville with blood-red leather upholstery (below, left). Although
a plain-Jane, daily driver, nonetheless this car had belonged to one of the many wives of Saudi-
Arabia's King Fahd, a part-time resident of Geneva. I got it from her chauffeur, to whom she had
given the car when she had tired of it.
At the same time we had briefly a white 1976 Coupe De Ville, the one with the 8.2 liter power plant!
At only $200 (yes, two hundred U.S. dollars!) it was the "cheapest" of all our Cadillacs, simply
because the previous owner had left a dog inside, unattended for too long, and it had "played" with
the car's blue, velour upholstery. Unfortunately, we had to get rid of this car when we found out that
customs duty was unpaid in Switzerland and would have amounted to about ten times the cost of the
Cadillac! In Switzerland, customs dues on automobiles [and on most other merchandise for that
matter] are calculated on weight, irrespective of the car's value or condition.
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