Nice thread Rob, thanks for all the interesting information too. And thanks to MikeJ too for the pics he posted. In the 60's and the early 70's all the government official vehicles that I ever saw in Finland were some American model car similar to the Caddy MikeJ posted.
I remember seeing the state president of South Africa, Mr. Diederichs, been driven in a Mercedes 600 Pullman Landaulet - looking car at what I seem to remember was his inaugural parade up and down Adderley Street in Cape Town at the beginning of 1975. The car looked something like the picture in one of Rob's earlier posts and this:
