1976 Superior Sovereign Regal landau combination

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Gary M. Kubancsek

I have been fortunate to acquire in a trade a 1976 Cadillac Superior Sovereign Regal Landau Combination. I would appreciate it if anyone who has the documentation (Superior Book) to share the production numbers for Superiors that year. Thank you. Gary K.
 
Hi Gary,

The Superior book notes 62 combinations made in 1976. No specific breakdown between the various versions yet, but I'm looking into that. BTW, are you sure it's a Regal? Does it have a small third side window on the sides where a landau shield would normally be, directly under the tip of the landau bar? Post a pic if you can...

Adam
 
The 1975 and 1976 Superior Sovereign Regal featured a small coachwindow where the landau shield traditionally was located. Surprisingly, this window was plastic - not glass. The Regal was available in the same selection of service configurations as the Sovereign landaulet - end-loading funeral car, combination coach or as a three-way funeral car. In addition, Regal end-loading funeral cars were available with Superior's optional extension or pull-out table. According to McPherson, Superior built, sold and delivered 62 Cadillac combination cars in 1976 but, unfortunately, the information given him by Superior didn't break down the individual service configurations by model. UN 1976, Superior built 636 Cadillac professional cars. Of these, 94 were three-ways, 348 were straight end-loading funeral cars, 62 were combinations, 18 were flower cars and 114 were ambulances. There are quite a few photos of Sovereign Regals in the Superior book along with all of the history of this model and even a close-up of the special coach window.
 
Keith,
are you sure about the opera window being plastic??!!

I have a '76 Regal endloader and I'm almost certain my opera windows are glass.

Dana Bennett.
Forestville, NY
 
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