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Full-size luxury car: V-16: 1930 1940 D-body: 2 Full-size luxury sedan, coupe, convertible and limousine: V-12: 1930 1937 D-body: 2 Full-size luxury sedan, coupe, convertible and limousine: Series 355: 1931 1935 C-body: 1 Full-size luxury sedan, coupe, convertible and limousine: Series 70: 1936 1987 D-body: 11 Full-size luxury sedan, coupe ...
Each model year added the year prefix to the series (37-60 and 38-60) in the number hierarchy used at the time. It was replaced by the Series 39-61 in 1939, but a model that was derived from it, the Sixty Special or 60S, continued off and on through 1993. The Series 60 was the brainchild of new Cadillac manager, Nicholas Dreystadt.
General Motors of Canada had built Cadillacs from 1923 until 1936 and LaSalles from 1927 until 1935. [13] Pre-World War II Cadillacs were well-built, powerful, mass-produced luxury cars aimed at an upper-class market. In the 1930s, Cadillac added cars with V12 and V16 engines to their range, many of which were fitted with custom coach-built ...
The 1927 Cadillac being restored by Sam Ezell was made to take tourists through the newly opened Glacier National Park. President Franklin Roosevelt and his White House entourage rode them in 1934.
Then, 50 years ago, it was transformed into an absolute boat of a vehicle and the heaviest Chrysler ever made. This car is a big reason Chrysler sales plummeted after the 1973 oil crisis, but the ...
1940 Cadillac Series 40-62 2-door convertible 1941 Cadillac Series 41-62 coupe 1941 Cadillac Series 41-62 4-door convertible. The Fisher-bodied Series 40-62 was the new entry level product for the 1940 model line and was upgraded with a low sleek "torpedo" style C-body with chrome window reveals, more slant in the windshield, and a curved rear window. [1]
The new GM full-size bodies, at 64.3 inches front shoulder room (62.1 inches on Cadillac) and 63.4 inches rear shoulder room (64.0 inches on Cadillac) set a record for interior width that would not be matched by any car until the full-size GM rear-wheel-drive models of the early to mid-1990s. Pairs of individually housed squarish headlamps were ...
1950 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe de Ville Cadillac Coupe de Ville badging. The name "DeVille" is derived from the French de la ville or de ville meaning "of the town". [1] In French coach building parlance, a coupé de ville, from the French couper (to cut) i.e. shorten or reduce, was a short four-wheeled closed carriage with an inside seat for two and an outside seat for the driver and this ...