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12/30/2017 Foreword E BAY B was an "accidental" purchase on Ebay; Gita had gone to Geneva for a week ... just long enough for me to have fun on the computer; our 1964 Fleetwood Sixty Special sedan epitomized Cadillac's owner-driver luxury cars of the sixties; It was our second 1964 Cadillac Late Extra (Spring 2004): We moved to a town house closer to the water, that comes with a boat slip and winter boat storage. We sold the big Cadillac toys and reverted to boating, which left me more time to devote to the The (new) Cadillac Database©. ~~~~~ The (new) Cadillac Database© is Born On the topic of man's IQ, James Q. Wilson, professor of management and public policy at UCLA once said: In no field of knowledge is there a wider gap between what the experts know and what the media report. The situation seems to be much the same with automobile history, although, like my friend Ron Van Gelderen, twice President of the Cadillac La Salle Club, Inc., the more I know about Cadillac https://www.newcadillacdatabase.org/static/CDB/Dbas_txt/Foreword.htm 28/36
12/30/2017 Foreword and La Salle cars and history, the less I consider myself to be an expert. Yet in collector circles my predilection for Cadillacs quickly earned me the nickname Mr. Cadillac. It was under that alias, in 1983, that I took over from Hervé Antoine, in Paris, editorship of the Cadillac-LaSalle column in the bi-monthly Bond, the French-language journal of the then 2000-member strong American Car Club de France (ACCF)]. My articles, in French, in that glossy magazine sparked a lot of reader interest. Questions about Cadillacs started pouring in. Advancing senility combined with an understandable penchant - as a Scot - for golden-hued usquebaugh (the "water of life", i.e. whisky) my brain cells gradually were being destroyed and I was having to cross-check often my facts and figures before I could quote them with any kind of assurance. Many of the answers were to be found - after much rummaging - somewhere among the piles of books and magazines littering the Cadillac Room at home. Without a proper reference system, finding a specific Cadillac photo or fact was like searching for the proverbial needle in the equally proverbial haystack. Some semblance of order was needed! But where to find the time? For economic reasons Gita and I had begun riding 125cc motorcycles to save on gasoline. One day in May 1987, on my way back to the office after lunch, I was hit by a car driven by a "blind" Korean diplomat and left partly disabled for five months 1 . With Gita's help, I made the most of the succeeding long period of convalescence to put some order in my Cadillac literature collection. And with the advent of computer technology I was able gradually to discharge my failing memory onto more reliable magnetic discs. __________________________________________________________ 1 Had this accident occurred in the USA, probably I would have become a millionaire. In Europe, however, injury law suits do not provide for huge settlements; my opponent's insurance company covered only the cost of the broken bike, the broken bones and the effective loss of earnings during the time I was off work Top: samples of Cadillac sales literature and books on Cadillac cars. Below: sample Cadillac magazine ads, Cadillac toys and Cadillac memorabilia from Yann Saunders' collection https://www.newcadillacdatabase.org/static/CDB/Dbas_txt/Foreword.htm 29/36
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