Cadillac - Standard of the World. America's best selling luxury car - models include the Fleetwood, Sedan de Ville, Coupe de Ville, Calais, Series 60, 62 and 75, Seville, and Fleetwood Brougham. Engines range from the 331 cubic inch V8 introduced in 1949, later enlarged to 348 then 390 cubes, replaced in 1964 with the superb 429 V8 that was upped to 472, then 500 cubic inches (8.2ltr) by the early '70s.

We’ve carefully selected the finest of original, vintage Cadillac advertising images from the 1950s to the 1980s - take a look through the gallery below to go back in time to when Cadillac really was the ‘Standard of the World’ as their ads used to say.

We cover some of the impressive array of Cadillac innovations going back to the first mass produced V8, first electric starter and more - click here to go to our Cadillac article.

Read the Tunnel Ram article on Personal Luxury Cars and check out our gallery dedicated to the Cadillac Eldorado.