Ref. #00: this replicates a custom creation on the 1921-22 Cadillac chassis by Don Lee, coach builder
to the stars [unfortunately, I don't remember where I got the original document used to model the car]

   
Ref. #00: Built on the Type 61 chassis for a Miss Ann May, the original car (top photo) appeared in the Don Lee
catalog already in 1920; this 6-fender touring car is in the scaphandrier style favored by Lee in the twenties

   
Ref. #1: This unique creation by Don Lee for one Sussman Mitchell of Visalia, CA featured a
padded top, roof-mounted luggage rack, 6 fenders, wire wheels and a broad, wicker belt molding;
the photo used to create the replica (B&W photo, top) appeared in the Don Lee catalog for 1920

   
Ref. #01: 1923 limousine; a drawing of this car appeared in a Swiss book that I acquired in the seventies

   
Ref. #1: Hibbard & Darrin custom convertible sedan, modeled after photos in the author's collection

   
Ref. #1:  tiger-hunt V-16  boat-tail roadster  by Giovanni Pinin Farina, built on the Series 452-452A sixteen-cylinder
chassis for the Maharajah of Orccha, in the province of Bhopal, India; the replica was modeled from a factory photo
and others that I got from Cadillac dealer Dave Towell of Akron, OH,  who owned the car in the early seventies

   
Ref. #3: special Madame X limousine on   the V-16 chassis, Fleetwood style #5131, built for R.S. McLaughlin,
then President of GM Canada;  the replica was molded from photos kindly supplied by my friend,
the late Gene Babow, shortly after the original car had been fully ("over") restored by Maxwell Sapp

   
Ref. #1: Fleetwood style #5585 convertible Victoria on the V-16 chassis for screen star Robert Montgomery;
the photos used to create the replica were supplied, once again, by my friend Gene Babow

   
Ref.: #1: this unique special aerodynamic coupe for five passengers, Fleetwood style #5599, 
was built for the Chicago World's Fair entitled  A Century of Progress; the replica
was modeled after the many photos in my collection

   
Ref. #1: Fisher bodied V-8 coupe; this was modeled from a color photo published
in Maurice Hendry's definitive history of Cadillac and La Salle cars

   
Ref. #1:  This town car on the V-16 chassis depicts Fleetwood style #5825 [sometimes shown as #5725];
the original was featured in a colorful magazine advertisement of the time ( supposedly body #27)

   
Ref. #2:  This replica is supposed to depict the 1935 limousine on the V-16 chassis, Fleetwood style #5875 [or #5775];
unfortunately, at the time I commissioned the model, I did not have any photo of the rear so the latter is incorrect

   
Ref. #1:  Standard Series 60   sedan for 7 passengers [from factory photos]

   
Ref. #4: Standard Series 60 coupe [from factory photos]

   
Ref. #1:  V-8 town car, with body by Fleetwood; at the time the replica was built,
the original car was owned by enthusiast William Montigel who provided the photos

   
Ref. #1: In my opinion, the most outrageous sixteen-cylinder Cadillac ever built is this monstrous roadster
created by Willy Hartmann of Lausanne, Switzerland on the V-16 chassis for 1937; it was modeled
from photos in my collection; you should read the full, unexpurgated story of this car by clicking here

   
Ref. #1: Standard Series 60 Special sedan, modeled from my own photos
of a car belonging to Arnold Bolliger, a Swiss enthusiast from Zurich

   
Ref.  #1: Here is a replica of  a unique fastback sedan built on the V-16 chassis [Fleetwood job #9002]
for GM's then President, William Bunkie Knudsen; the latter is reported to have kept the real car
until his death, in 1948; the car has survived and has been fully restored

   
Ref. #2: Standard Series 60 convertible; modeled from photos kindly supplied
by Ron Van Gelderen, twice President of the CLC, who once owned this lovely car

   
Ref. #4:  Franay-bodied sedan on Series 60 chassis; it is believed that the original car spent
the latter part of its existence in Geneva, Switzerland, where it was operated by a taxi company!

[ missing photos ]

Ref. #1:  V-8 Series 75 sedan, style 7519

   
Ref. #1: V-8 Series 75 sedan, style 7533

   
Ref. #1:  The original of this scaled-down V-16 coupe, Series 90, Fleetwood style #9057-B
was formerly owned by my friend Ron Van Gelderen who kindly supplied photos of   it

   
Ref. #1: [erroneously labeled a 1940 model] this Series 90 custom town car was designed and built by Derham
on the V-16 chassis for a Mrs. David Haas who, at the time, resided in NY's Waldorf Astoria hotel

   
Ref. #00: Erroneously dated 1938, this custom town car by Inskip, NY, was built on the 1940 chassis for Cadillac dealer
Inglis Uppercu; it is not easy to recognize it as a Cadillac; features include a custom hood grille with Packard-styled
hood emblem, double "S" curved molding on the hood sides, extending into the front doors, triangular front door glass,
and a small, oval rear window a la Derham; only the headlights, tail-lights side-lights and fenders appear to be
stock Cadillac issue; the photos used to model the replica were supplied kindly by the late Gene Babow

   
Ref. #1: Standard Series 62 convertible with (rare) sidemounts (for 1940)

   
Ref. #1: Custom convertible Victoria on the Series 62 chassis, designed and built  by Bohman & Schwartz of
Pasadena, CA, for William Doheny, President of Sinclair Oil; currently (top photo) it is restored and much admired

   
Ref. #2: custom convertible coupe by Bohman & Schwartz;
formerly in my own collection, this duplicate was sold to my friend Bob Blake of Arizona
[ Photo: � 2002, Yann Saunders ]

   
Ref. #3: this unique custom coupe, Series 90,   was designed and built also by Derham on the V-16 chassis
[it is rumored that it may even have been a conversion of a regular Fleetwood Style #9057-B coupe];
the car has survived and is currently (2000) a part of the Merle Norman collection of  J.B. Nethercutt

   
Ref. #4: Ten custom Series 60 Special sedans were built  for GM executives from 1938 to 1941; this one has
from 1940,  has a padded top, false landau bars as well as horizontal fender spears, reminiscent of the V-16 cars;
a photo in Roy Schneider's book Cadillacs of the Forties was used to help make up the replica

   
Ref. #5: Special town car, Fleetwood style #6053-MB; only nine full-size versions
were built, plus another six with the more formal, leather top (style #6053-LB);
again, the replica was modeled after a photo in Roy Schneider's book

   
Ref.: #6:  Special town car by Brunn & Co. of Buffalo, NY; this one was built
on the Series 75 chassis for steel executive, E.J. Kulas; later acquired by collector, Charles Coleman,
the real car was restored and then seen  regularly at meets of the Classic Car Club of America

   
Ref. #1: Standard Series 60 Special sedan

     
Ref. #1: Custom convertible coupe by U.S. designer, Raymond Loewy for his own personal use

   
Ref. #1: Custom pick-up on Series 62 chassis, modeled from a photo taken at a car meet

   
Ref. #1: Slope-backed, 2-door custom Woodie on Cadillac Series 61 chassis by Coachcraft of Hollywood for western
movie star Charles Starrett; the original car has survived; it was owned for many years by CLC member Hollis Weihe

   
Ref. #1: Sensational custom convertible coupe by Coachcraft of Hollywood with tapering, fade-away front fenders:
the replica was modeled after a photo in Roy Schneider's book Cadillacs of the Forties

   
Ref. #7: Unique custom town car on Series 60 Special chassis, Fleetwood style #6053-LB, built for that year's auto salon
in NY; it is the last town car to carry the Fleetwood badge; a survivor, it is still seen regularly in collector car circles

[ missing front view image of replica ]

Ref. #8: Custom "C"-bodied Cadillac, by Fleetwood, with Series 60 Special window treatment and special, flow-through front fenders; it was commissioned by England's Duke of Windsor, who gave up his country's royal throne to marry an American divorcee by the name of Wallis Simpson.  Nicknamed The Duchess, the Windsors paid $14,000 for the car which is reported to have remained in their ownership until 1952; the car may have survived but has not been seen in any collector circles

   
Ref. #9: This car began its useful life as a regular Series 61 fastback coupe; it was later modified by Brunn & Co. 
of Buffalo, NY; the scale replica was modeled from a photo in Roy Schneider's excellent  book

   
Ref. #10: Custom town car by Derham on the Series 75 chassis; this car is reported
to have cost $10,000 in 1941, when the most expensive "75" of that year cost a tad over $4,000:
Cadillacs of the Forties was again the source of the image used to produce the replica

   
Ref. #11: Custom limousine by Rollson [successor to Rollston], NY,  on the  Series75 chassis;
this was a typical Rollson modification of the regular Cadillac six window sedan;
a photo of the original car was found, once again, in Roy Schneider's book

   
Ref. #1:  Pre-production prototype of the Series 60 Special sedan;
modeled from a photo in Roy Schneider's book, Cadillacs of the Forties

   
Ref. #3: V-8 Series 75 limousine, style #7519-F ...modeled long before the author acquired a similar car in 1996; this one 
is a replica of that owned by movie producer David O. Selznick; there were a couple of photos of it in Roy Schneider's book

   
Ref. #9: Series 62 coupe, style #6207-D; it replicates a car pictured
in Cadillacs of the Forties, authored by my friend Roy Schneider

(r�sum� en fran�ais)

C'est un vieil ami, le Dr. Michel Sordet de Gen�ve, qui m'a fait d�couvrir les cr�ations � l'�chelle 1:43e de Ren� Daffaure, un fabricant (artisanal) de mod�les r�duits habitant Marmande dans la r�gion bordelaise.  Le gros de cette production "� l'unit�" est r�serv� aux voitures ayant couru au Mans; parmi celles-ci se trouvent n�anmoins une Cadillac de la Serie 61, une barquette baptis�e Le Monstre, mue par un moteur Cadillac, ainsi qu'un spider Allard J2X � moteur Cadillac �galement. Il me les fallait imp�rativement!

Je vous parle d'une �poque ou on m'avait gratifi� du surnom de Mr Cadillac en raison de mon amour immod�r� pour les autos de la marque. Cela amusait les autres membres de notre club genevois de collectionneurs d'autos miniatures lorsque j'affirmais en toute sinc�rit� que je poss�dais autant de chemises, de vestes de cravates et de chaussures que de vraies Cadillac, c'est � dire deux de chaque! A l'�poque en question nous avions �ffectivement DEUX Cadillac et pas grand chose d'autre (une Sedan de Ville, ann�e 1964 et un coup� Eldorado Seville, ann�e 1960).

Je d�butai donc la collection avec les trois versions Le Mans, ci-dessus, au prix de FS35 pi�ce (aujourd'hui ces r�pliques se n�gocient entre $100-120 chacune). Je demandai � Michel si Ren� pouvait fabriquer, sur commande, quelques Cadillac � carrosserie sp�ciale, d'apr�s des photos en ma possession. Il accepta et j'en commandai donc quelques dizaines � raison de 1-2 exemplaires par mois (je n'avais par les moyens d'en commander plus � la fois car nous avions les deux "grosses" Cadillac assoiff�es � nourrir!)

Lorsque je vendis ma collection en 1989 les Marmande �taient au nombre d'une centaine.  La plupart d'elles portent un num�ro de s�rie tr�s bas ("00", "0" ou "1"). D'autres Marmande furent fabriqu�es parfois � un vingtaine d'exemplaires [comme par exemple le spider Allard J2X  de 1949 et la barquette baptis�e Le Monstre], bien que chacune soit faite enti�rement � la main. Parfois on rencontre deux r�pliques d'une m�me ann�e portant le m�me num�ro de s�rie; en effet le syst�me de num�rotation utilis� par M. Daffaure est tr�s peu fiable pour ce qui concerne les petites Cadillac, ce qui rend ces mod�les encore plus rares et plus d�sirables. Vous pouvez aussi rencontrer des num�ros de s�rie tels que "8'' ou "9" sur des mod�les diff�rents d'une seule et m�me ann�e; cela ne veut pas dire que sept ou huit autres mod�les identiques les ont pr�c�d� car Ren� utilisait parfois une num�rotation cons�cutive pour des mod�les diff�rents d'une m�me ann�e. En revanche, des vingtaines de petites Allard J2x de 1949 et de Cadillac Le Monstre qui particip�rent au 24 Heures du Mans en 1950 furent fabriqu�es (une � une) et num�rot�es dans un ordre cons�cutif; leur total peut d�passer la centaine. 

Ces miniatures Marmande sont taill�es � la main dans diff�rents morceaux de bois, dont le balsa, puis equip�es de parebrise et de vitres en PVC ainsi que de petites roues (fixes) avant de passer � la finition et � la peinture au choix du client.

Pour ce qui est du rapport qualit� prix on ne peut pas comparer ces cr�ations artisanales pour le moins "rustiques" avec les miniatures en Zamac de certains grands fabricants connus. En revanche les petites Marmande valent aujourd'hui de l'or! Mises � part celles que je commandai moi-m�me dans les ann�es soixante-dix, en trente ans de collection je n'en ai vu que deux autres � vendre, en tout et pour tout (...et dont  je me rendis acqu�reur sur le champ!) Il s'agissait d'un Coupe de Ville, ann�e 1958 arborant une immatriculation zurichoise et une berline 60 Special de 1958 �galement!

Vous aurez trouv� ci-dessus une importante s�lection de ces Cadillac Marmande parmi celles que comptait jadis ma collection.  Si j'en retrouve d'autres, je les ajoutereais a cette page.