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| 1959 Caddy Info |
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On this page you will learn about the 1959 Cadillac Professional cars. Professional cars are Limos, Ambulances, Hearses, and flower cars. Professional cars where made from custom coach makers. The main ones are Miller Meteor (MM), Eureka, Superior, and Sayers & Scovill (S&S). They use all diffrent styles in 1959 so also on this page i will share with you how you can tell them apart. Oh i dont know everything about 59 so if some stuff is woing please email me and tell me. |
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Miller Meteor (MM)
This is the same style that they used in Ghostbusters. They used a limo style Combo which means its a hearse and a ambulance. Limo syle has all the windows while Landau style has the landau bar. |
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This is there combination and its the same style they used in the movies. It looks like an ambulances but it has rollers in the back to carry the coffin for a funeral. |
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This is the Ambulance style. MM made diffrent styles of ambulances; this is there limo style ambulance. You also had a landau style ambulance. |
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| This is the landau style, some funneral homes ask just for landau which means it had no curved back windows. |
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Eureka
This company had almost the same features as MM but there roof line and windows where diffrent. Joseph built is Ecto-1replica out of a 59 caddy Eureka ambulance. This company also made the expensive (along with S&S) out of the professional cars back in the 50's |
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This there ambulance style. It had big curved back windows and this style is very rare. |
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| This the landau style. Notice the light next to the landau bar;. Well thats a trademark of all Euerka even today they have them |
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This is there combination style and you can see big changes from MM style and thi style. |
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Superior
This company was the most popular for funeral dircctors back in the 59 cause because they tought it had the best style and had diffrent styles of coachs to choose from. |
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Superior version of its combination style. |
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Superior version of a ambulance..It also has lights in bededd in to the roof. |
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| Superior version of the landau style. Note the back window has the / chrome strip. |
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Sayers & Scovill (S&S)
This company made the most expensive professional car back in the 50's. So only the rich funeral homes can aford them. There roof line had more of stright lines then curvers; same was with there windows. |
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S&S Ambulance style had more head room then most other ambulances. |
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S&S version of a combination. |
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| This is S&S landau srtyle hearse. As you can see its very square and its more formal that way. |
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