Circa 1:87 Scale

GORDYMITE, USA

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Gordymite, Hong Kong, copied the Matchbox S&S ambulance (next entry)
in plastic with blue-tinted windows

MATCHBOX, UK



    
From Lesney, UK, in the Matchbox series comes this 1964 S&S Parkway  ambulance on Cadillac chassis
(original by Hess &Eisenhardt, USA), complete with stretcher and "victim"; different editions come with
different style wheels and different sized red crosses. This just in from a very observant Database user,
Fred Swihart: the 1964 Cadillac ambulance by Matchbox shows a victim on a stretcher,
beside the car [photo, above, left]; it does not belong to this car, but to the Matchbox
Mercedes ambulance in the same scale. It's a minor detail, but a detail all the same.

NUCOR (?)

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Nucor [provenance?] also made a diecast copy of the Matchbox S&S ambulance;
details are not as fine as on the Matchbox model

Circa 1:66 Scale

MECCANO [MINI-DINKY], HONG KONG

     
3¼" long Coupe de Ville; it is silver with a red interior; the toy was delivered with its own, small, plastic garage;
this toy frequently suffers from a form of metal fatigue and you may find it in pieces in your showcase one day.
Silver is the most common color but it is believed to have been available also in white (never seen one)

Here it is again with a tan interior

Circa 1:64 Scale

MATTEL, USA

    
This 1:64 scale diecast toy issued in the late nineties by Mattel, under the Hot Wheels label,  often is wrongly described as a
1963 Cadillac hearse, whereas the rear tail-light housings obviously belong to the 1964 Cadillac; a custom version (right) was also available

Hard Rock Cafe 1964 Cadillac custom coupe with lowered roof
[ often wrongly identified as a 1963 model ]

UNKNOWN

Circa 1:43 Scale

IDEAL TOY, HONG KONG (?)

     

Battery-powered construction kit of the 1964 Cadillac Series 62 coupe for slot car
track racing; two different versions may have been available;  I have seen the
following reference numbers: 4146/7 and 4152-5; the toy is 4½" long

[ More photos:  Argus de la Miniature, #109, p.3 ]

1:25 Scale

JO-HAN, USA

    
These are the Jo-Han  (USA) promotional models for 1964; (above) the Series 62 de Ville coupe and  (below) the Series 62 De Ville convertible; both were available also as construction kits: they are 8½" long
References are #364 for the coupe and #864 for the convertible; a kit with ref. #C364:1 was also issued

   
This fine example was offered for sale on e-Bay in 2001

This re-issued construction kit by Jo-Han (USA) is from the eighties;
some of these have the wrong interiors (the seat pattern corresponds to the 1968 Cadillac)

    
One collector decided to create this "beater" from the Jo-Han kit

This one is in better condition

Nicely built '64 Coupe de Ville and '66 hearse

Circa 1:24 Scale

UNIDENTIFIED, GERMANY (?)


Here is a cute cigarette box / lighter in the shape of the 1964
Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special sedan (the roof is missing)

Circa 1:18 Scale

ICHIKO

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Ichiko??? (Korea???), lithographed tinplate  2-dr. coupe (Police speed control)

Circa 1:66 Scale

MAISTO

    
I can vaguely see the 1965 De Ville or Calais coupes

MATTEL, USA

    
This is a replica, in the Hot Wheels series, of a
golden 1965 Cadillac Eldorado reported to have been designed by
George Barris of Hollywood for The King, Elvis Presley; it features
guitar-shaped sun visors, a boomerang TV antenna on the rear deck
and some of Elvis' gold records integrated in the car's convertible boot

UNIDENTIFIED

Unidentified "custom coupe" model

Circa 1:50 Scale

DIAPET, JAPAN


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From Diapet, Japan, #D-219, body style not known

Circa 1:43 Scale

DINKY TOYS, UK

    

   
Replica of an ambulance by the Superior Coach Corporation (USA) on the 1965 Cadillac commercial chassis;
the catalog reference is #247 (267???), 1967, white opaque windows, metal wheels, working suspension and beacon,
white with red lower body; other similar versions include Ref. #288 (A), 1971, dummy beacon; Ref. #288B, 1972, 
no suspension, dummy beacon, one-piece molded plastic wheels and tires, 4-spoke rime; Ref. @#288C, 1973, as previous toy,
with blue tinted windows; Ref. #288D,. 1974, as previous toy but white opaque windows and 6-spoke rims; Ref. 288 (E),
as previous toy but white opaque windows, dark gray interior and black floor; Ref. #288 (F), 1974, but blue tinted windows

Ref. #288 (G), 1974, 6-spoke rims, red with white roof and lower body; made for Dutch market, marked Falck, 4-spoke
wheels; Ref. #288 (H), 1974, as above but 6-spoke rims;  Ref. #288 (I), 1975, as previous toy but blue tinted windows; Ref. #288 (J),
1976, as previous toy but black with white roof and lower body.toy is 6" long and the license plate number reads "65-441-H"

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Imaginary hi-top station wagon conversion, by the author

EMC. UKRAINE

Another highly detailed 1:43 scale model S&S ambulance
 from Vlad Soroklat, one of the best modelers in the Ukraine

IXO PremiumX, CHINA

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Listed as a 1067 model, I believe this is a 1965 Fleetwood 60 Special
(available in black and champagne)

SAKURA, JAPAN

   
Heavy, 5½" long toy replica of the 1965 Fleetwood  Series 60 Special sedan;
it features spring-operated suspension parts; a second model from the same company appeared a few years later
with a Taxi roof sign; the company also made two petrol lighters based on   these two models (the regular sedan
lighter carries the Prince label and the license tag reads "66", instead of "65"

Same car - in lightweight box from Japan

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Circa 1:32 Scale

PALMER, USA


#6513, Cadillac Eldorado
( 3 in 1 customized kit),  measures 7"

UNIDENTIFIED (?)

This rather crude, unidentified toy in circa 1:32 scale has the rear fender
lines of the 1965-66 Cadillac as well as the vertically-stacked headlights

1:25 Scale

JO-HAN, USA

       
For the 1965 model year, Jo-Han again issued two models: the
Coupe De Ville and the Series 62 convertible; Ref. #1465, 8½" long

    
This one shows signs of having been in a nasty fender-bender
(Bill Buckingham collection, Chicago)

Convertible version of the coupe

[ Images to come ]

Jo-Han  (USA) again offered the De Ville convertible, measuring 8½" long

Circa 1:20 Scale

BANDAI, USA

    
This tinplate toy by Bandai (Japan) measures 10½" long; it depict the Cadillac Calais or De Ville coupe;
the plastic "custom" wheels give it away as a later edition (probably late seventies or early eighties)
The one on the right (discolored photo) left  is from the author's former collection

        
Here is another version of the same basic toy, with the roof removed to create a convertible; again, these are second editions,
issued in the late seventies [the original toy had tin wheel covers, whereas this one has custom,  plastic wheels with "spinners"]

     
The front and rear clips are a mix of the 1965 and 1966 Cadillac models
Battery-powered, the toy has two levers on the front seat (below); on the right is the on-off lever and
on the left the HI-LO speed lever; you may toot the horn by pressing down on the steering wheel

    
This one is from the author's former collection

Various color combinations were available

T.N. [NOMURA?], JAPAN

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TN (Japan),  #3815, tin 4-dr. sedan

TN (Japan),  #3829, tin 4-dr. sedan,  Police

TN (Japan),  #3830, tin 4-dr. sedan,  Fire Chief

MODERN TOYS, JAPAN

This is a battery operated, tinplate replica, with plastic base, in circa 1:20 scale,
(11 inches long) of a highly unlikely 1965 Cadillac "stunt car"; battery operated

Circa 1:18 Scale

JADA "DUB", JAPAN

   
The '65 Cadillac coupe from the movie, "Reservoir Dogs"

Circa 1:12 Scale

A T C, JAPAN

This toy is similar to the more common T.N. model, below;
[Ref. #3772] and Takayama [Ref. #321]

T.N. [NOMURA?], JAPAN

         

          

           
This large tinplate toy 1965 Cadillac sedan measuring 16½" long is among
the finest Cadillac large-scale replicas to be had.  At the height of the tinplate toy craze, in the late eighties,
a toy like this one, in fine condition, could easily fetch $2,000-3,000 ...MORE than the real thing!

Circa 1:8 Scale

T.N. [NOMURA?], JAPAN

    
This even larger tinplate replica of a 1965-66 Cadillac coupe [Calais/De Ville???]
is a whopping 26 inches long; it is in my opinion the finest of the large-scale, tinplate Cadillac toys
At the height of the tinplate toy craze, a toy like this one could easily fetch $4,000-5,000
The box for this toy features the Fleetwood Series Sixty Special sedan

[ other photo, Argus. 102, p..57 ]