Fall is here in all her glory and we are waiting for you to stop by and enjoy this incredible weather with us!  Today was a high of 78 and we are loving the cool nights and warm, sunny days!  We have a lot of new "pickins" for your pleasure!

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Beginning today we will have a new format on our blogspot.  We will be posting all of our NEW FINDS under that tab at the top and will be using our home spot for Antique Talk, things going on in the area, Helpful Hints, etc.  If you have any ideas of things you would like to see please contact us.  We want this blog to be both fun, helpful, and useful.  We have had a great summer and are looking foward to an even better Fall.  The weather is incredible today with a high of 75 degrees.  Now, you gotta Love That!  We sure do!  We also want to thank each of you for your patronage of Good n Old Antiques and look forward to seeing you many more times as we are constantly bringing in new Treasures!  Hey, be sure to tell your friends about us too  and Bring Them On In!  Have a great day!

Check out this "cool" 54 Mercury Monterey 2 Door Hardtop!  This little beauty is a good running automobile and handles well.  If you want to turn heads this one will do it!  Stop on by and take a look.  We've got lots of other antique cars for your shopping pleasure too! 

A True Piece of Automobile History! 


1946 Cadillac Sedanet
Ending a hurried production run that had begun four years earlier, just after Pearl Harbor, the last M-24 tank rolled off the Cadillac assembly line on August 24, 1945. Amazingly, the first '46 Caddy was produced on October 7, 1945.
By necessity, the '46 Cadillac was a quickly thrown-together rehash of what Cadillac had offered in 1942, and only Series Sixty-Two four-door sedans were built at first. Cadillac ads made much of the fact that their "Battle-Proved" engines and transmissions were the only automotive components continually produced without interruption during the war, and improved along the way to boot. A major modification, however, was the adoption of a negative battery ground.

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1946 Cadillac Sedanet

Styling changes were minimal, though noticeable. Rectangular parking lights resided on the upper portion of the slightly modified grille (with fewer vertical bars), and wraparound bumpers were adopted front and rear. The front of the hood and the decklid now sported the Cadillac crest nestled in a "V," which would become a long-standing trademark, so the Cadillac block lettering was moved to the front fenders.

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1946 Cadillac Sedan

Model offerings were pared to just 11 for 1946. Gone entirely were the Series Sixty-Three and Sixty-Seven, while the Sixty Special lost its division-window model, as well as the vertical chrome strips on the fenders. The latter were replaced by five hash marks on each C-pillar. Series Sixty-One and Sixty-Two continued with the coupe and sedan, and the later boasted the only convertible in the lineup as since 1941. The Series Seventy-Five, meanwhile, was pared to five models, down three, although five-, seven-, and nine-passenger models were still listed, as were the Imperial models with divider windows. Seventy-Fives traded the hood louver decorations and triple fender speedlines of '42 for an almost full-length chrome strip starting at the front of the hood, and gained stainless steel running boards. Cadillac block lettering was moved to the lower front fenders.

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1946 Cadillac Interior

Strikes and materials shortages, particularly of sheet steel, were major industry-wide problems during the '46 production year. Thus, some Cadillacs went through the assembly lines with only brackets to hold temporary wooden bumpers -- the real ones had to be installed by dealers as they became available later.

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1946 Cadillac Coupe

Pressure on Cadillac to produce was intense. Even in 1947, there were still almost 100,000 unfilled orders for what one division sales manager, D. E. Ahrens, called ". . . one of the most sought-after, and most scarce items in the world today." People knew Cadillac's value and prestige, and that was what they wanted, but due to the early postwar difficulties only 29,214 customers got to drive a '46 Caddy home.