Great Cars: CADILLAC
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2017
- One of Henry Ford's early suppliers, Henry Leland, took over from Ford and turned his first company into the maker of cars that came to symbolize the best and the excess of America. At the turn of the century many people were building cars. Most were unreliable toys for the rich - creations meant for short weekend excursions. Leland was convinced there was a better way. He borrowed precision manufacturing techniques from Colt Firearms and applied this knowledge to his cars. Soon the quality soared and his cars earned the title of the “Standard of the World.” It's a legacy Cadillac has been struggling to maintain ever since.
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I'm currently working on a 75 Coupe DeVille that my wife and I will be able to fire up on a Friday after work, run her 80mph for about 500 miles, in air conditioned comfort, to visit our daughter, son inlaw and twin grandsons on Saturday. Then, we'll get some sleep and after breakfast with them, head back home and be to work Monday morning. The car is in the paint shop now, she'll be a black beauty! We can't wait to take her for a quick shakedown run about 100 miles away to visit our son. I'll be following the wife in my pickup with tools and trailer just in case. I don't anticipate any problems though. DAMN THE GAS MILEAGE...FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!
I was born on Cadillac Blvd in Detroit and I own two Cadillac STS's (sort of a destiny deal, I guess). At least for me, they are perfect cars. I am old and don't want to unscrew caps and bend over and use a gauge to check tire pressure and in my Cadillacs I just need to push a button to do that. It gets very hot in the summer where I live and my cars have remote start so I can have the AC going before I get in. I love music and they have a 15 speaker Bose stereo system that sounds great. They ride smooth and handle great. And lastly, they are cool looking cars.
I would love to own a 1980s Cadillac Brougham. You just can't get over old Cadillacs ❤️
Cadillacs are incredibly vehicles but the pre-war cars are especially beautiful.
In your Post War segment, you show a 1948 Hudson. Hudson introduced the world to "step down" architecture but they didn't have fins. Cadillac did indeed have good quality until about 1971 when Cadillacs were no longer built-in a Cadillac exclusive factory and GM had created a monster in appeasing the UAW to gain an advantage over their smaller scale rivals.
Having Lawrence Fishbourne's voice on the commercials that say "We don't just build luxury cars. We build Cadillacs" certainly didn't hurt.
I am 64 now and when I was in my mid 20's I worked at a self service gas station, a younger customer basically STOLE a mid/late 60's Fleetwood series 60, all black with LOW miles and mint condition, that thing was a beast and pure class as it rolled in, in those days they were nearly given away regardless of condition or mileage
Credit where it's due, placing 10th and 11th at LeMans against purpose-built racing cars is an incredible achievement!
Really enjoyed this. Thanks for posting. :)
amazing how those gauge blocks changed everything for machinists, might want to wiki the man Elisha K Root, one of the guys maybe the guy who made Colt's operation work. Colt hired him away from the Collinsville Axe Co here in the town I live in and payed him a reported 5000 a year , Star money then for sure.
Own a 2015 ATS coupe. Love the heritage! Hope Cadillac can compete and win in more motor sports.
Another truly informative and interesting video
Just being picky...but the 56 Continental Mark II was never badged or sold as a Lincoln...it was a "Continental Mark II" built by the Continental Division of the Ford Motor company...
Cadillac should build a flagship big car with the new 6.6 v8.
Good video and I gave you a thumbs up.
ich liebe cqdillac.aber die alten..mit flügeln.einfach fantastisch
I'm nodding my head to the background music
Cadillac has dropped the ball badly by failing to build some of the amazing concepts they've shown. The El Miraj, for example, would have owned that segment of the market. Shoot the bean counters!
ENJOYING YOUR VIDEO IAM TRYING TO COLLECT CADILLAC MODELS .LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE
The Mark II was of course not a Lincoln, but a brand unto itself, the Continental!