Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Town Car

The Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Town Car was a concept car that the Cadillac division of General Motors presented in 1956 and showed publicly at the GM Motorama in January 1956. The four-door car was styled like a town car: the chauffeur sat in the open while the passenger compartment had a fixed roof covered in leather, which gave the impression of a landau top although it could not be folded down. The front had a wide, trapezoidal grille with rocket-shaped bumper horns, double headlights and sharply pointed tailfins, and the rear doors were hinged at the back. The whole body was made of glass-fibre reinforced plastic. The passenger area in black and gold had an intercom to the driver, air conditioning, a vanity case, a cigar humidor and a thermos with glasses. The show car had no engine and was never built in series, but Cadillac used several design details on the Eldorado Brougham made in small numbers from 1957.