I am afriad that Mr. Vance has missed an important part of the story behind the 1959 Cadillac. The drame in the 1959 Caddy is in its shape, not its fittings. Certainly chromium abounded, but that can be said for almost any U.S. car of 1959. The big difference between the 1958 abd 1959 Cadillacs is that the '59's fittings compliment its overall design, rather than gobbing it up - as was the case in 1958. This was not the last of Harley Earl's Cadillacs, but rather the first Caddy of the Bill Mitchell era, and led the way to the far more refined 1960.