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The fourth-generation Cadillac Series 62 arrived for 1954 with wraparound glass, reverse gull-wing bumpers and a dual exhaust routed straight through the rear bumper, then spent three years breaking its own sales records. Along the way it went from a 17.3-second run to 60 mph to a flat 12 seconds. Here is how to tell a 1954 from a 1955 from a 1956, and what the differences actually mean.

Cadillac’s Series 62 dropped lower, grew sleeker, and picked up jet-age styling cues every year from 1954 to 1956 — while sales climbed to a record 134,502 units by the end of the run. Read on to see how a three-year styling evolution turned into Cadillac’s best sales stretch of the decade.

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