Danny Ryder - Deceased - 1962 - 2021
PCS Life Member
Any one got an idea approx. how many 75 series limo's were built in 1971. I think cadillac had a strike that year so production was down.
71 caddy limo question
- Thread starter Danny Ryder - Deceased - 1962 - 2021
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Keith Snyder
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According to the recent McPherson & McCall book on the history of the Cadillac Series 75, Cadillac built 752 nine-passenger sedans and 848 limousines for a total of 1,600 units. The book also illustrates the cars and gives prices.
Jim Tighe - Deceased 1942 - 2012
March 10, 1964 - April 27 2012
Shortly after that strike ended, the Cad dealer in Anderson, IN, got in a couple of new Fleetwood Broughams with terrible fit-and-finish. Workers must have still been upset or in an awful ( imposed, no doubt ) hurry when those two were trimmed.
Danny Ryder - Deceased - 1962 - 2021
PCS Life Member
Actually this would be a 9 passenger sedan being no divider. Has landau bars with no window in the roof quarters.
Lawrence W. W. Wilson
PCS Life Member
Ah...memories.......speaking of '71's......
My first pro-car ever was a 1971 Fleetwood Seventy-Five Sedan, white with a black painted top and blue cloth interior. I bought it in Anderson, IN in 1983 and it had about 60K miles on it. I remember my roommate and I paid $1800 for it. My roommate and I would put a cooler full of cold, refreshing beverages in the back seat and ride around Ball State University and pick up friends and willing women off the sidewalks who wanted a free beer and a ride to class. It worked out pretty well for a couple of years. I then moved to Orlando, FL and took the limo with me. I finally sold it in 1986 for $1800 to a friend of my dad's named Charlie Brown who used it to drive his drunken buddies to the dog track in Daytona Beach. Great first pro-car and of course I had never even heard of the PCS back then. Wish I had!!!
My first pro-car ever was a 1971 Fleetwood Seventy-Five Sedan, white with a black painted top and blue cloth interior. I bought it in Anderson, IN in 1983 and it had about 60K miles on it. I remember my roommate and I paid $1800 for it. My roommate and I would put a cooler full of cold, refreshing beverages in the back seat and ride around Ball State University and pick up friends and willing women off the sidewalks who wanted a free beer and a ride to class. It worked out pretty well for a couple of years. I then moved to Orlando, FL and took the limo with me. I finally sold it in 1986 for $1800 to a friend of my dad's named Charlie Brown who used it to drive his drunken buddies to the dog track in Daytona Beach. Great first pro-car and of course I had never even heard of the PCS back then. Wish I had!!!
Jim Tighe - Deceased 1942 - 2012
March 10, 1964 - April 27 2012
The story that I told on another thread about the professor with the MG and the big dog took place at Ball State, which I attended from '60 - '64. Do you recall a f.h. in Anderson that had one of the very rare Ghia Crown Imperial limos in the early '70's? It was a dark blue '63, of which only about 20 were built. Chrysler shipped a convertible chassis with a 2 dr hdtp body on it to Torino, and quite awhile later Ghia sent back a Crown limo with an $18,500 price tag. Quite unusual for one to be used by a f.h. Do you recall the BSU nickname "Fruit Jar Tech?"
Lawrence W. W. Wilson
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Jim, I do not remember ever hearing of the car you mentioned. Sounds like a great car though. I did not go to Anderson much at all as all the 'action' was right there in Muncie. Unfortunately, I was not really into 'pro-cars' back then and really didn't notice them. My roommate and I just bought the '71 limo as a 'party car'. It was 1983 and my every day driver was a 1980 Cadillac Sedan Deville, I was living large in those days. I also had a 1982 Yamaha XS-1100 motorcycle. I remember taking a few dozen "Ball U" t-shirts to spring break in Ft. Lauderdale and selling them all quickly. Students from other schools got a kick out of them. The nickname I remember most for BSU was 'Testicle Tech'. Am I allowed to type the word 'testicle' on this website?? Lee Ann probably has already done it.............................
Jim, I do not remember ever hearing of the car you mentioned. Sounds like a great car though. I did not go to Anderson much at all as all the 'action' was right there in Muncie. Unfortunately, I was not really into 'pro-cars' back then and really didn't notice them. My roommate and I just bought the '71 limo as a 'party car'. It was 1983 and my every day driver was a 1980 Cadillac Sedan Deville, I was living large in those days. I also had a 1982 Yamaha XS-1100 motorcycle. I remember taking a few dozen "Ball U" t-shirts to spring break in Ft. Lauderdale and selling them all quickly. Students from other schools got a kick out of them. The nickname I remember most for BSU was 'Testicle Tech'. Am I allowed to type the word 'testicle' on this website?? Lee Ann probably has already done it.............................
Jim Tighe - Deceased 1942 - 2012
March 10, 1964 - April 27 2012
Good grief. The place was not nearly so bawdy when I was there. The "Fruit Jar Tech" monicker comes from the fact that the Ball Brothers, who bought the school in the 1920's, made their fortunes from the canning jar business. Most of those Mason jars were made in the big glass plant on the s.e. side of Muncie, all the way across town from the campus. East and West sides of Muncie were - and still are - two different worlds. Muncie is also famous for being the "Middletown" in the pioneering sociological study of the same name, published in the late '20's and re-visited many times since by numerous scholars. And, of course, is well known in car circles for all those trannies made there, including the overdrive, which was invented in Muncie in the '30's by a fellow at Warner Gear. Muncie was a great smokestack era town, but is now a wholly different place, dominated by BSU and sprawl. I liked the old place better.