BIG FUN FINS ! 1959 Cadillac Series 62 2 Door Coupe in Red on My Car Story with Lou Costabile
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On "My Car Story" we're in Iola WI on 7-5-23.
We're looking at a 1959 Cadillac Series 62 2 Door Coupe in Red Paint. The car is equipped with a 390 CI V8 engine, with an automatic transmission.
The car's Owner is Mike Siegal. Mike’s had this car since 1995. Mike shares he always wanted a Cadillac with fins. Congratulations Mike for getting your fun finned car.
If you’d like to come to the Iola Car Show here is the link - www.iolaoldcarshow.com
ENJOY!
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Big is inaccurate. Giant is better. Gorgeous car!
Giant is good!
Oh, my, Lou! You continue to provide us with automotive eye candy with this fine vehicle. It is so over the top that it is stunning to behold. This color just works even if red doesn't always translate well in a luxury vehicle. You continue to offer one of the most compelling automotive video channels as you feature a wide variety of vehicles and you bring to the screen vehicles that are often long forgotten that need to be revisited. Thank you for all you do and best wishes for the rest of the year!
Hi ultraviolet tp, Happy to read "Oh my, Lou!" :-) My pleasure sharing the "candy" with you. You're welcome, Lou
Nothing's funner than fins, and Mr. Siegal's Caddy definitely shows us how & why. It's an iconic car and it looks fantastic in that color combo, too. Thanks, Lou!
Hi TheGunfighter45acp, Happy to share the FINS with you :-) You're welcome, Lou
Thank you for another great video! I cannot afford such a wonderful motorcar, but artists such as yourself, give me pleasure in experiencing such works of art .
Hi Larry, Happy to share this "work of art" with you. You're welcome, Lou
Despite being so well known and iconic in design, the fins still are shockingly tall. Very wild and extreme design.
I’m glad that they did it! It definitely is of the era and it’s fitting that the peak 1950s car came in 1959. Way to send of the decade in style.
Thanks Lou!
Hi Jeff, I agree, 1959 was a BIG year for the Fin. I enjoy sharing those cars with you. You're welcome, Lou
What a beauty, Lou!
Thank you so much for such classic!
Just keep it away from Marinas to avoid docking fees! :)
Happy to share this "beauty" with you Billace 90 :-)
The cars of the 1950s had great styling and were works of art. Also the late 1950s was the era of the large decorative tail fins. The 1959 Cadillac had the best looking most stylish tail fins of that time.
Hi David, Happy to read you enjoy this car :-) Lou
Hey Lou....My Dad had a 59 Cadillac Coupe De Ville in Brooklyn...it was stolen in 1968 from ave X in Brooklyn....My dad to this day always wanted his 59 to be returned to him...Four years ago I even posted a reward for $5,000.00 .... You can just google "1959 Cadillac stolen, Reward"...I have so much childhood memories in the 59 Cad.....It would be wonderful if i can buy this one you have showcased here, and ill give it to my dad...Please ask the owner if its for sale...Thank You
Hi ITALIAN STALLION, Happy to read your Dad had a 1959, and sad to read it was stolen. I'm not aware of this car being for sale, Lou
Another one of Harley J. Earle's "Swansong" cars! 1959 was the year that he went into retirement, and his designs for GM were the most flamboyant. The 1959 Cadillac was the most radical design, next to the Chevrolet that same year. The Cadillac had some cool features and the 390 CI engine provided plenty of horsepower to move that big body down the road. Being at an indoor venue, you couldn't hardly hear the engine perform. A beautiful car indeed!
Hi Michael, Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-) Lou
classic!.. the ridiculous fins of the era.... beautiful design my birth year car 👍🏻😂... radio n clock work?
Hi Martin, Happy to read you and this car share the same birth year. Glad this clock is still ticking, Lou
Yes, the fins are amazing but the roof line and sweeping C-pillar certainly add to the 'standard of the world" moniker - and well deserved. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Bruce H., Thanks for sharing what you notice. You're welcome, Lou
Thank you for showcasing this beautiful car. There are cars that are classic and there are cars that are iconic, this is the latter. I started to appreciate the cars of the 1950s when I was a young child in the 60s. Although the '57 Chevy is my all time favorite, the '59 Cadillac is a close second.
Hi GMP NY, Happy to share this "iconic" car with you :-) Lou
A really beautiful car. I always think it was in the late 50’s and early 60’s that the U S manufactured the finest automobiles. ❤
Happy to read you enjoy the looks of this car :-)
The holy grail of automotive awesomeness! LOVE it!!
Happy to read "LOVE it!!" :-)
🙋♂️ THANKS LOU,MIKE FOR SHARING THIS…BIG PIECE OF HISTORY 😁🤗💚💚💚
Hi Budget Audiophile Life-long, Happy to share this "BIG PIECE OF HISTORY" with you :-) You're welcome, Lou
Big Lou great content love those classic cadillacs in my opinion thats the best cadillac ever built can watch everything you do on rhis classic an definitely pass it on thank you for rhis video i can look at it all day long whay a freakin beast yo should pick one up for your self
Big Sinbad, High praise :-) You're welcome, Lou
😍Beautiful Caddy!!! 👍👍
NICE !
That would be a great car for the drive in movies
I agree.
In 1959, nothing said "I've made it" to the world as much as a new Coupe DeVille. Excess to the max. Cool video Lou, I really enjoyed this one!
You're right Tom, you roll up in this one JudyAnns Parents would be very proud of you.....
@@loucostabile If only it was that easy Lou.....
No clearer showing of designers' differing philosophies could exist than Cadillac's flambuoyant '59s (Harley Earl, retiring) versus slimmed down '60s (then-new Bill Mitchell).
Hi Arne, Thanks for sharing the comparison, Lou
You have a nice lean Dad bod Lou ! Years ago the owner of our local Handy Andy type store was Loretta. This was before 7-11 arrived in town. She drove the same type of '59 Caddy. . It was white with a black and white interior. Her small house and yard here in Washington State was fixed up Hollywood style with palm trees. What a chrome laden boat! I didn't realize they could put the aftermarket air conditioning blower unit in the trunk. I don't see the air intake scoops outside the rear window? I thought by 1959 GM had moved A/C unit "plumbing" to the front on all their cars. It was Rambler that first consolidated all A/C components up front in 1955. If you every do a 50's or early 60's Rambler with factory air video please let me know. They had lids on the dashboard you propped up for cold air.🌴
Hi Biblio Bill, Thank you on the compliment. Happy to read this car brings back memories of Loretta's car :-) Thank you for viewing and sharing, Lou
Hi Lou, that is a nice looking Cadillac, tha cars that were built back in the 50s and 1960s were just great, not like today, everyone drives around in SUV cars that i think are just realy glorified boxes.👍👍.
Hi Philip. Happy to share one of the 1950's best with you :-) Lou
My late uncle Gene in central Florida had a 59 Cadillac Series 62 4 Dr flat top.. Back in 1969 he owned a trucking company and one of his drivers called him to tell him his truck broke down ------- in Georgia. My uncle wasn't about to pay a shop in Georgia to check it over and fix it so he put a tool kit in the trunk of his 59 Caddy and drove to where the truck was at in Georgia from where he lived between Sanford and Orlando Florida, only to find the truck threw a rod and he wasn't about to rebuild it where it was and he had a parts truck with a good engine at home. He didn't want to pay for a tow truck to tow it that far, and didn't want to drive home, get the other engine and drive back to Georgia and have a shop put in the engine so decided to try to tow it home with his Caddy. It was a long, slow trip home pulling that semi back home but somehow he made it. A week later the generator went out and he parked it in his front yard to wait to get fixed. It was still waiting to be fixed in that same spot in 1980 when it was moved to his sons property Where it remains to this day ---- or should I say where what is left of it remains to this day. It rusted away so bad plus sank into the ground to the point of being nonexistent all the way up to the beltline chrome. They removed the hood from it because the body had dropped so much the engine was buckling the hood because cast iron doesn't rust away as fast as regular steel does. That Florida car is truly the rustiest car I have ever seen, and I live up in the rust belt in northeastern MinneSNOWta.
Hi Todd, Thanks for sharing the story of Uncle Gene's car. Lou
Super cool car, and the fact that it hasn't had a 100 point restoration is perfectly fine. Amusing to note the owner's wearing a Lexus hat, that make perhaps being the antithesis of a 1959 Cadillac.
Hi MDavid G, Happy to share this "Super cool car" with you :-) Lou
Beautiful car. MAD magazine made satirical jokes about The Caddy’s fins cutting people’s arms off as they go by them!
Hi Bradydog, Ahhhh, MAD magazine :-) Lou
¡Pero que Imponente se veía este Cadillac Serie 62 Coupé de 1959 con esa combinación de rojo y techo blanco! De líneas muy bonitas y aerodinámicas, ya para 1959. Con especial énfasis, a las grandes y estilizadas aletas posteriores que albergan esas guías dobles estilo jets! Eso si, no pudiste entrar por la puerta del conductor (no había espacio) pero lo resolviste bien entrando por el lado del pasajero... Como siempre, no hay obstáculo para mostrarnos esos imperdibles interiores, jeje. ¡Felicitaciones a su dueño, por este clásico automotriz! ¡Saludos cordiales, Lou!
Hi Jaime, When the car is this BIG, there are going to be obstacles :-) Happy to read the details you enjoy with this car, Lou
1959 Cadillac Series 62. The Series 62 would be introduced as the successor to the Series 61 in the 1940s (Early 1940s if I remember correctly) and was positioned to be below the Eldorado and was an entry level luxury car. The most infamous model years would be the late 1950s into the early 1960s (1959-1963) for their unique tailfins, which also applied to other cars such as the Eldorado, DeVille and Fleetwood 60 / Fleetwood 75. These tailfins were applied for many positive reasons, such as how they reduced aerodynamic efficiency or drag coefficient (By a certain margin, that is) and how it attracted customers easily/made Cadillacs more distinctive and recognizable.
In order to tell the difference between a Series 62 and an Eldorado, look at the sides. The Series 62 had a metal trim on the sides while the Eldorado did not. Same thing applies for the DeVille series. The Coupe DeVille never had a metal trim, while the Sedan DeVille had a metal trim.
Hi Matthew, Make sure to watch the commercials before the video in full. That's how I get paid so I can keep sharing with you, Lou
@lou that's my favorite year for Cadillac 1959 is my favorite year for Cadillac
@timmy happy to read "that's my favorite year for Cadillac" :-)
I love it. I've always loved the `59 Caddies, but every GM brand put out awesome cars in `59. Way back in 1983 I came really close to buying a `59 Sedan DeVille flat top, but my parents wouldn't let me have it because of some rust behind the wheels and a bent control arm. Oh well. I just admire them now.
Hi MillerMeteor74, Happy to read "I love it" :-) Lou
A truly magnificent automobile. This is my grail car. Thanks for a wonderful video, as always. Take care 😀
Hi Steven, Hope you're behind the wheel of one like this soon. You're welcome, Lou
Growing up in the 60's, my parents called those fins
"Belch Fires" whenever we saw them on the road....
Thank you for sharing.
Tell the owner to consider putting in an electric pusher fan on the front side of the a/c condenser. That will really help the engine driven puller fan on the back side of the radiator in stop and go traffic and thus, enhance the overall performance of the a/c system. But that is only if the owner is not concerned about having an original parts car with no aftermarket upgrades.
Thank you for sharing a tip.
The Cadillac - Ultra. Nothing like the '59. Certainly the best of the iconic classic of that era.
High praise :-)
Mike is a cutie. :o)
:-)
The “Autronic Eye” dimmed the high beams when a car approached in the oncoming lane.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
59 Cadillac is in my dream garage, nowhere is it practical in England but is such a cool car
Happy to read this one is good enough for the "dream garage" :-)
Please feature my one of my favourites the 59 Buick Electra
If I see a good one, you will too. Think you might like this LeSabre. ua-cam.com/video/iodaqEThV9s/v-deo.html
Lou is showing his British influence calling the headliner the “hood liner”!
:-)
The Car of al cars, I think the Cadillac 59 is the most famous car of all time
High praise :-)
This thing is like the Lamborghini Countach of it's day. So out of this world
Hi danam0228, Happy to share this "out of this world" with you :-) Lou
In the early 80's my best friend inherited the 'almost' same car in a 1959 Pink Cadillac convertible from his grandmother in Miami. Best thing about the car was it had a Florida personalized plate 'FLORA' from 1959. Steve used to troll the clubs in Houston and Austin back in the day when SRV played local for peanuts, I was often along for the ride. Steve went on to collect XK-E's and I morphed into a Packard guy. Brings back memories .... Great car and gets up to 15 mph. Cheers -
Like this one? ua-cam.com/video/EIODTzSB2v0/v-deo.html
Yeah - the same model and color but Steve's was factory pink.
The '59 is a king of Cadillacs! The greatest fins in car history.
NICE !
This is one car that I never warmed up to. A ‘58 or a ‘60 I love, but this is and always has been too much over the top for me. I certainly can appreciate it though.
Thank you for viewing and sharing.
The cool thing about the car is that it IS over the top!
Thanks lou garet cadillac wow 😎👍
You're welcome 1987
Fintastic Fifty nine 😍😍😍😍😍 Thanks Lou!
Big FINS just the way we like it :-) You're welcome motorTranz.
Pero prendanle las luces !!!!!
Hi Carlos, You want to see the tail lights?
👍💯😎💯👍
:-)
My fave Caddy by far. Love the 59!
NICE !
Really a work of art. Shows how far the USA has fallen.
Happy to read you enjoy this "work of art" :-)
InFINitely beautiful ✨
NICE !
Probably my all time favorite car. Definitely one of the most iconic cars ever made. This was a really beautiful example, I hope to own one someday. Great video Lou.
Hi Zach, High praise :-) Think you'll enjoy this video too. Lou ua-cam.com/video/JyEDN-H0r_A/v-deo.html
This ones fun :-) ua-cam.com/video/EIODTzSB2v0/v-deo.html
Stay focused and I hope you're behind the wheel of the right one for you soon :-)
@loucostabile Thanks Lou, I will try. It may take away, but it will definitely pay off in the end.
So pretty, what a car
:-)
Lovely car.....
:-)
Amazing car!
High praise :-)
Дуже класне авто! Дуже! Дякую!👍👍👍
Hi Сергій Шамін, Happy to read you enjoy this "Very cool car" :-) You're welcome, Lou
Driving a 1959 Cadillac and wearing a Lexus cap! smh 😢
Interesting....
No A/C on this Caddy?
I guess not.
An icon.
I agree.