Classy Cadillacs

[Martyn Donaldson]

Atti, that's one of the design studios at the GM Technical Center in Warren, MI...

http://carofthecentury.com/versaille_of_industry.htm

And the rendering on the wall is of the 1956 Eldorado Brougham Town Car, one of the concept cars built for GM's '56 Motorama at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NY...

http://www.tophatjohn.com/PixGallery.htm

 

[Keith Snyder]

Atti, that photo was taken inside the styling section at the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit (Warren) in the 1950s. The car you see on the wall is a full-scale rendering the 1956 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Town Car concept that was displayed at the New York City GM Motorama at the Waldorf Hotel. This was a fiberglass "idea car" built on a 129.5-inch wheelbase and, without an engine or drivetrain, was strictly a "push-mobile" show car. While never intended for production, it sure wowed the crowds attending these spectacular GM shows. I believe that this car survives in a private collection.

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

Thank you both. I had been searching for '58 info before posting, having not picked up on Eldorado fin.

 

[Steve Loftin]

Limousine rates have changed a little since 1964:

(SL collection)

 

[Steve Loftin]

Lockport Twp. F.D. (Lockport, IL)
1972 M-M

Beach Haven, NJ
1965 S&S

(SL collection)

 

[Abe Bush]

Atti, that's one of the design studios at the GM Technical Center in Warren, MI...

http://carofthecentury.com/versaille_of_industry.htm

And the rendering on the wall is of the 1956 Eldorado Brougham Town Car, one of the concept cars built for GM's '56 Motorama at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NY...

http://www.tophatjohn.com/PixGallery.htm

There is a great article highlighting the 1956 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Town Car in a recent issue of Hemmings Classic Car.

Abe

 

[Jim Ireland]

Another cadillac

Now that I can post photos (thanks Paul!), I can add one to the thread.

 

[Steve Loftin]

Now that I can post photos (thanks Paul!), I can add one to the thread.

Where is it from?

 

[Jim Ireland]

Green and White M&M

Somewhere in Idaho.

 

[Jim Ireland]

Nice old cadillac

Old photo I found of what is reported to be a 1929 Cadillac

 

[David Smith]

Spotted on Flickr.

Museu da ULBRA - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil

 

[Russ Austin]

Curious to know if that started as a flower car. My opinion is that its just plain georgeous.

 

[Kurt Arends]

No. It started out as a Fleetwood 60 Special. That is not a commercial chassis.

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

V8 Cadillac ambulance owned by B. E. Dayton Inc. Funeral Directors of 417 North Maple Drive, Beverly Hills. When professionally photographed in '32, paperwork dating to 8/8/31 accompanied it.

Images from Dick Whittington Studio.

 

[Steve Loftin]

Here are a couple of M-M hightops from the Chicago 'burbs:

'65 - Oak Lawn F.D.
'70 - Fermi Labs (Batavia, IL)

(SL collection)

 

[Keith Snyder]

Atti....amazing photos. This looks to be a 150-inch wheelbase 1930-1931 Cadillac V-8 commercial chassis adorned with what looks like coachwork by the A.J. Miller Company in Bellefontaine, Ohio. An amazing car. Thanks for posting these images.

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

'54 Superior in front of Weed-Corley FH taken 4/25/55. They're still doing business in Austin, TX as Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Homes & Cremation Services.

Neil Douglass photographer. Image from Rescuing Texas History 2006 collection.

Someone please tell me this is not a Beau Monde (*cough cough*) so I don't have to spend untold hours tracking it down.

 

[Jim Jordan]

The Weed Corley 1954 Superior is definitely NOT a Beau Monde. The "B" pillars on a Beau Monde are ribbed chrome (and fold up into a compartment in the headliner) and the "C" pillars are very thin and chrome on a Beau Monde.

 

[Martyn Donaldson]

Jim is absolutely correct and Superior only produced the hardtop Beau Monde for '55 and '56 anyway... They built ONE '54 as a prototype/show car for the Oct. '54 NFDA Convention in Boston, Mass.

 

[Attila Bethlenfalvy]

Do you know if that '54 was light green Martyn? That one did exist into this millenium anyway. Uncertain if it still does.