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cadillaclloyd
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Here is a Motor City 1:43 Professional Car set...

1955 MOC Professional Car Set

1955 Fleetwood 75

1955 S&S Flower Car

1955 S&S Superline Victoria Hearse

The flowers in the well were made by Claude, and can be moved to other flower cars.

1955 MOC Flower Car

Detail visible without flowers.

It took a few years to put this set together.



   
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John Kuvakas
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That's a nice set, Lloyd. Congrats!


John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA


   
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Love these "professional sets."   I can replicate this in 1/18 (1959 ) but not in 1/43.  I'd be tempted to add a few Greenlight '55 Fleetwoods to your line up.... for only a few bucks, you could have an even more impressive 1/43 vintage presession of 1955 black Cadillacs.

Nice pics, thanks for sharing.

GMC hauler 143 Caddy


   
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@jkuvakas +1.



   
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Posted by: @chris

Love these "professional sets."   I can replicate this in 1/18 (1959 ) but not in 1/43.  I'd be tempted to add a few Greenlight '55 Fleetwoods to your line up.... for only a few bucks, you could have an even more impressive 1/43 vintage presession of 1955 black Cadillacs.

Nice pics, thanks for sharing.

GMC hauler 143 Caddy

That's a good idea, inexpensive way to increase the length of the procession.

Good thing I don't need to replicate this one...

Funeral 1

 

Funeral 2

 

Funeral 3


   
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@lloyd-mecca Yikes! 😬 😬



   
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Posted by: @lloyd-mecca

 

Good thing I don't need to replicate this one...

Funeral 1

 

Funeral 2

 

Funeral 3

The Teflon Don did go out in style!



   
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cadillaclloyd
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@d-crowe 

He did at first glance.

There has always been talk that the casket was empty, and after the procession departed and everyone was watching it, he was moved quietly to an unmarked grave in a cemetery known but to a few. They say this was done to prevent souvenir hunter, etc. May be urban legend.



   
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Posted by: @d-crowe
Posted by: @lloyd-mecca

 

Good thing I don't need to replicate this one...

Funeral 1

 

Funeral 2

 

Funeral 3

The Teflon Don did go out in style!

Who is Teflon Don ?



   
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@100ford2003 

 

John Gotti



   
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Posted by: @lloyd-mecca

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John Gotti

Thank you, I did not know that.



   
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