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10/05/2021 5:44 pm
Should have mentioned this one, too. Its release date is listed as TBA…
1972 Cadillac deVille ASC Wagon Dean Martin
Anyone know anything about the real car?
10/05/2021 7:49 pm
That looks bad from all perspectives. It needs a lot of work to make it a decent model, IMHO.
10/05/2021 8:16 pm
A poor model of a poorly made original. How appropriate.
10/05/2021 9:14 pm
Pretty cool ! Not only a Cadillac station wagon, but a Dean Martin connection, too.
John Kuvakas and John Kuvakas reacted
10/05/2021 11:29 pm
Dubious on the Martin connection on the 1972.
However, Dean Martin's 1976 Castilion Fleetwood Estate Wagon was recently sold for $69,900. This car has the chrome basket-handle, and a halo vinyl roof. Eleven of these were built by Traditional Coachworks of Los Angeles. Sammy Davis also owned one.
Now, if a 1:43 manufacturer wants to properly build one of these, they will have a hit.
The photo below is of Presley's 1972, one of two built by ASC, the other owned by Dean Martin. I'm no longer dubious. 😀
13/05/2021 10:05 am
Ridiculous. Give Cadillac collectors an early 60s Fleetwood/ 60 Special, or better still any sort of the distinctive 1961 Cadillacs of which exactly zero have ever appeared in our scale.
Then go ahead and produce the goofballs. Harrr-umph.
Yours truly,
Cadillac Curmudgeon
13/05/2021 2:43 pm
I remember seeing 1:1 Caddy wagons in the Hanley-Dawson showroom in Chicago's near northside (when we'd go to Pizzaria Due). Don't know if they were this coachbuilder though.