1955 Cadillac Coupe de Ville .The American auto industry as a whole had a banner sales year in 1955, but few automakers were as pleased with the year’s outcome as Cadillac, which shipped a then-record 140,777 new cars. That total included 33,300 examples of the Coupe de Ville, which was part of the Series 62 line in 1955, a sales performance that cemented it as Cadillac’s second most-popular model. A Coupe de Ville was a huge automobile, riding on a 129-inch wheelbase and scaling in at more than