First some background info: 1. Ray Anderson of Edgewater, Florida owns a beautiful, prize-winning ‘49 Model 7519 limousine, a photo of which graces page 2 of the September ’07 issue of the Times; 2. According to Cadillac guru and chapter member Ed Gunther in an article in the December ’02 issue of the Times “The first twenty 1949 Cadillacs manufactured in November 1948 were Series 75 limousines”.
As can be seen in the photo below of Ray’s car’s body data plate, it is body number 2 of all 1949 model 7519s built, so it is probably one of the first twenty ‘49s, if not the second ’49 overall! Absent other evidence to the contrary and unless “Number 1” shows up somewhere, it seems that Ray’s car may very well be the earliest extant ’49 Cadillac.
