From Australia, for 43 YEARS now I've been driving my 472c, 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, same engine and just routine maintenance with no rebuilds a kilometres car with 712,000ks, that's like 445,000 miles to "miles" people. My personal belief, the best engine mankind has created, Robust, Reliable, Refined, Realistic with 18mpg, what more could you ask for, I have a spare daily driver, a 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham I've been driving for a mere 33 years it is still a "miles" car with just 135,000 on it, same story, perfect reliability.
1981: Age 17 learning to Drive 1968 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, All Black 472cu/500lbs torque. 4 doors, with wing windows in the rear. My Parents gave me it to drive to High School every day. 4 friends the Back 3 in the Front.
You’ve got yourself a nice Caddy Mark! I enjoyed yesterdays family films too. I grew up just down the road at Yowie Bay, although I couldn’t recognize any of the sea side locations. Had family living in Bexley too, my grandfather was the Commonwealth bank manager at that time on the corner of Harrow & Forest Rd.
Hi there, I'm one of Mark's mates, one of those old films was on the top end of Lake MacQuarrie, I'd been there myself in those years and my little sister lost pinkie" her favorite stuffed toy so we had to scrounge around the entire place to find it, but another little kid must have already grabbed it & taken it. As soon as I saw that footage I thought "bloody pinkies corner Lake MacQuarrie". On latter occasions when going to visit family at Newcastle & surrounds Lyn would always ask to stop, or reckon that "pinkie" was still there somewhere, now in 2025 that was over 60 years ago back in like 1965 or earlier. If I were discussing something with Lyn re that area, I'd still refer to it as being "up near "pinkies corner"
@ Thanks Greg! Great story which reminds me of when in 1977, we left Sydney to visit Mum’s father in Barcaldine in QLD. Somewhere between Roma and Longreach, Dad was barreling along a dirt road when the right rear hubcap popped off the HQ Prem and into the paddock of someone’s farm. I watched it go under the fence and into the scrub. 2 weeks later on our way home, I recognised the area and told Dad to slow down a bit, when ‘there it is’!! We grabbed the hubcap and put it back on and arrived back to Sydney as a complete car once again!
I lived in Mt Eliza in the 1960's and can vividly remember Reg Ansett driving his pale yellow mid 60's Cadillac down Kunyung Road..he wasn't a big man and looked tiny inside the car.
I’m in LOVE with your Eldorado, Mark. Green is my favorite color, and I think ‘68 was the last year of the hidden headlights. I’d have one myself today if I had a place to keep it, and didn’t have to drive it on the same roads with all the crazies that are out there. This was back when Cadillac WAS the Standard of the World. It had not yet sold itself out by the likes of the Cimarron and the Escalade. I know the Escalade is a success.. but at what cost?
I was born that year........ when engines with 3mpg was a selling point! I grew up watching American TV shows and movies, which often featured huge 60's and 70's American cars driving around or in car chases. I was often struck by their sheer presence and size. They were quite intimidating.
From Australia, I own a '72 & '74 Fleetwood Brougham, they are my DAILY drive cars, '74 I've owned 43 years, '72 I've owned 33 years, they do WAY WAY better than 3mpg, for a decade plus I owned a 1972 constructed, but model year '73 Lincoln Continental MK4, it had the then exclusive Lincoln 460ci engine, powerful but this thing ate fuel like there were NO tomorrows, in traffic at peak hour with air-cond running and giving it a bit of acceleration, you would get 5mpg no sweat, same roads but next day in either Caddy worst 16mpg not the usual, 18mpg, the cubic inch difference in the two engines was 12 ci. After some 10 years fun with the MK4 Conti' I sold it to someone who was ultra keen to buy it, fortnite later he called me , subject , FUEL USE !!
The Cadillac age demographic was very much younger then. Cadillac was car of stars, and sports figures. Buick also had a younger demographic, with muscle cars , NASCAR.
@markbehr88 No kidding. Of course celebrities are a small demographic! But that image , reputation SOLD Cadillacs. They had contemporary designs. Plus people bought Cadillacs as they where excellent, and were the cars of success, glamour, power. Reliability , technology. If you went to the service department of a Cadillac Dealer the most prominent people in your community where seen. Used ones had WAITING lists ! At Manhattans Cadillac Dealer you saw the most famous people! Older people had the most $ for them. GM developed a senipr demographic, including Corvette over time with brand loyalty, as they fell behind foreign luxury cars , as Wall Street squeezed their budget for profits. But Cadillac was king of luxury then with all ages, and still loved by many. They were legendary. From Rockers ( Cadillac mentioned in lyrics mote then any other car ) , oil men , professionals , entrepreneurs .
If we are talking the sixties,my nod would be toward the sixty five Cadillacs,but I will agree with the sixty eight ElDorado The 472-500 Cadillac engine family had to be one of the best engines Cadillac ever made.
@@markbehr88My favorite is the Fleetwood Brougham (the one that's Sable Black with a Sandalwood vinyl roof in this video), followed by the Fleetwood Sixty Special as a close 2nd.
Even Caddy was down with those psychedelics of the time. I guess they were trying to attract a younger audience even then. I don’t think it worked though. Fast forward thirty some odd years and they used Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll”. I think that was to appeal mostly to the baby boomers whose parents and grandparents drove Cadillacs but were becoming far and few between. As a 50 year old now,I always preferred these land yachts of yesteryear while most others my age were going for Magnum PI’s Ferrari,Miami Vice’s Lamborghini,etc. Make Cadillacs like Cadillacs again!
The best I could do is to own a fleet a Jo-Han Caddy scale models. I have two 1964s, two 1966s (hardtopsandconvertibls), a 68 DeVille convertible, a 76 Eldorado and a 79 Coupe deville.
I learned how to drive with our 1968 caddy convertible. It was 1975 and i was 16 years old. I was mad cuz my uncle would not let me drive our brand new 1976 coupe de ville. I thought I was second rate.
Unfortunately 5 years later US hits a fuel crisis, you hope your car loan is finished by 73 although trade in price would be worthless, should have least it. Nice green Caddy Mark, hope Caddy not that fuel thirsty on open road.
Hi, I'm one of Mark's mates and having owned & been driving a bigger, heavier & longer 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham sedan now for 43 years, as my everyday car, PLUS a '72 Fleetwood Brougham as a spare I can confirm these are one of the most FRUGAL monster V8's ever made, Rochester carbies made a special and world first "spread-bore" 4bbl carbie EXCLUSIVELY for this and its sister 500ci engine. Now as a comparison, Caddy's mortal opposition Ford in their Lincoln division also launched their take on a powerful new V8 for the premium car, the 460 ci engine, a mere 12 cubic inches smaller than the Caddy engine. However, I owned for over a decade an Aussie constructed 1972, MY'73 Conti' MK4 coupe, both smaller, shorter & lighter than the giant Caddy, it ate fuel like there were NO tomorrows. A little bit too much acceleration in peak hour driving could see it deliver a mere 5mpg, woeful. Whereas in the dead same conditions the Cady's deliver 16 mpg. and 18 or better on the open road, a few years later the 460 was available across most Ford vehicles, and it doesn't matter what kind of car or pickup, anything with a 460 in is a guzzler. Why such a difference in the two premium brands is anyone's guess. Owning both brands of cars, using the same driving style gave mega different outcomes, equally although very nicely assembled & put together, much of the Ford product componentry does not have the same longevity as the same Caddy component, does not matter what you pick, power window lift motor, water pump none last as long as the same component in the Caddy's hence 10 years odd ownership of the Lincoln MK4 coupe, but 43 & 33 years ownership of the 2 Cadillacs, my beautiful black '74 model has 712,000klms on its original unrestored engine 700 thousand k's, it had 102,000 on it 43 years ago when I bought it as an 8 year old car, I've added the extra 610,000k's with just routine servicing using Mobil 1 synthetic oil. So, as a daily car it worked out fine no loss in purchase price, worth more now than what I paid for it, so unlike a contemporary modern car ZERO depreciation and it's taken me from 26 years old to 68 years and if I didn't want a backup vehicle, this would have served its purpose for nearly a WHOLE adult lifetime with just one cash outlay. Many of my friends & colleagues had bought Merc's, BMW"s and the like and with regular updates to a newer model and expensive servicing their cash outlays have been staggering and the depreciation nightmarish.
Here is a cool 1968 Cadillac dealer film. Enjoy. Please 👍Like and Subscribe. 👍👍
From Australia, for 43 YEARS now I've been driving my 472c, 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, same engine and just routine maintenance with no rebuilds a kilometres car with 712,000ks, that's like 445,000 miles to "miles" people. My personal belief, the best engine mankind has created, Robust, Reliable, Refined, Realistic with 18mpg, what more could you ask for, I have a spare daily driver, a 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham I've been driving for a mere 33 years it is still a "miles" car with just 135,000 on it, same story, perfect reliability.
@@gregharvie3896 👍👍There are videos of Greg’s Cadillacs on the channel.
The 1965 - 1968 Cadillacs were true works of art, and were really the finest cars in the world.
@@Morgorn1 They were very nice indeed. 👍
Thanks for posting this Mark. The 68 is pretty much my favorite - and congratulations on owning such a stunning Eldorado!
@@johncarroll1403 Thanks very much. I will do a detailed episode on it down the track so please Subscribe. 👍👍
L O V E This sort of thing - especially since it's a '60s Cadillac - my all time fav!
@@Nunofurdambiznez Cheers 👍
1981: Age 17 learning to Drive
1968 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, All Black
472cu/500lbs torque.
4 doors, with wing windows in the rear.
My Parents gave me it to drive to High School every day.
4 friends the Back
3 in the Front.
@@YuTbCensorship Very cool. 😎
what a real beautiful full car looks like
Agree. 👍
472 cubic inches. Those were they days.
For sure. 👍
Great video, thanks, Mark.
You are very welcome. 👍
You’ve got yourself a nice Caddy Mark!
I enjoyed yesterdays family films too. I grew up just down the road at Yowie Bay, although I couldn’t recognize any of the sea side locations.
Had family living in Bexley too, my grandfather was the Commonwealth bank manager at that time on the corner of Harrow & Forest Rd.
Thanks very much re the Eldorado. Cool you lived in the same area. YT keeps switching the comments off for some reason 😡
@ all good mate, I knew you’d post another video soon enough.
@ 👍
Hi there, I'm one of Mark's mates, one of those old films was on the top end of Lake MacQuarrie, I'd been there myself in those years and my little sister lost pinkie" her favorite stuffed toy so we had to scrounge around the entire place to find it, but another little kid must have already grabbed it & taken it. As soon as I saw that footage I thought "bloody pinkies corner Lake MacQuarrie". On latter occasions when going to visit family at Newcastle & surrounds Lyn would always ask to stop, or reckon that "pinkie" was still there somewhere, now in 2025 that was over 60 years ago back in like 1965 or earlier. If I were discussing something with Lyn re that area, I'd still refer to it as being "up near "pinkies corner"
@ Thanks Greg! Great story which reminds me of when in 1977, we left Sydney to visit Mum’s father in Barcaldine in QLD.
Somewhere between Roma and Longreach, Dad was barreling along a dirt road when the right rear hubcap popped off the HQ Prem and into the paddock of someone’s farm. I watched it go under the fence and into the scrub.
2 weeks later on our way home, I recognised the area and told Dad to slow down a bit, when ‘there it is’!!
We grabbed the hubcap and put it back on and arrived back to Sydney as a complete car once again!
I lived in Mt Eliza in the 1960's and can vividly remember Reg Ansett driving his pale yellow mid 60's Cadillac down Kunyung Road..he wasn't a big man and looked tiny inside the car.
@@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars Very cool. 👍
Austin powers would say that’s groovy
@@trevorkeyes6067 He would! 😀👍
I’m in LOVE with your Eldorado, Mark. Green is my favorite color, and I think ‘68 was the last year of the hidden headlights. I’d have one myself today if I had a place to keep it, and didn’t have to drive it on the same roads with all the crazies that are out there. This was back when Cadillac WAS the Standard of the World. It had not yet sold itself out by the likes of the Cimarron and the Escalade. I know the Escalade is a success.. but at what cost?
Thanks very much. It is in my Top 3 GM cars of all time. 👍
@dma124 That color is called Monterey Green Firemist Metallic (order code=96), a $131.60 option, which was 1 of 5 available for 1968.
@ Thanks very much. Someone had painted it white but I returned it to green. 👍
I was born that year........ when engines with 3mpg was a selling point!
I grew up watching American TV shows and movies, which often featured huge 60's and 70's American cars driving around or in car chases. I was often struck by their sheer presence and size. They were quite intimidating.
@@noelgibson5956 Me too. I loved them. Still do. 👍
From Australia, I own a '72 & '74 Fleetwood Brougham, they are my DAILY drive cars, '74 I've owned 43 years, '72 I've owned 33 years, they do WAY WAY better than 3mpg, for a decade plus I owned a 1972 constructed, but model year '73 Lincoln Continental MK4, it had the then exclusive Lincoln 460ci engine,
powerful but this thing ate fuel like there were NO tomorrows, in traffic at peak hour with air-cond running and giving it a bit of acceleration, you would get 5mpg no sweat, same roads but next day in either Caddy worst 16mpg not the usual, 18mpg, the cubic inch difference in the two engines was 12 ci.
After some 10 years fun with the MK4 Conti' I sold it to someone who was ultra keen to buy it, fortnite later he called me , subject , FUEL USE !!
@ I think if you own huge engine two ton cars like this, the fuel consumption should not be high on the expectation list. 👍😄
These guys would hate my cars! Cheers Mark.
I love how they say the best thing to do with an engine is just make it bigger! 😀👍
@@markbehr88And it was contemporary to the Mini Cooper S on the other side. Different world, better I think but I was only 1yo.
Well that was very interesting. Considering the age group that typically bought these, the 60's graphics and music probably didn't go down too well.
@@area51isreal71 Thanks. They were trying to be hip. That 472 V8 is a fantastic engine. 👍
The Cadillac age demographic was very much younger then.
Cadillac was car of stars, and sports figures.
Buick also had a younger demographic, with muscle cars , NASCAR.
@ But plenty of old people too. The ratio of actors etc was very small amongst the buying demo 🤔
@markbehr88 No kidding. Of course celebrities are a small demographic! But that image , reputation SOLD Cadillacs. They had contemporary designs. Plus people bought Cadillacs as they where excellent, and were the cars of success, glamour, power. Reliability , technology.
If you went to the service department of a Cadillac Dealer the most prominent people in your community where seen.
Used ones had WAITING lists !
At Manhattans Cadillac Dealer you saw the most famous people!
Older people had the most $ for them.
GM developed a senipr demographic, including Corvette over time with brand loyalty, as they fell behind foreign luxury cars , as Wall Street squeezed their budget for profits.
But Cadillac was king of luxury then with all ages, and still loved by many. They were legendary.
From Rockers ( Cadillac mentioned in lyrics mote then any other car ) , oil men , professionals , entrepreneurs .
Little did anyone know the disasters waiting to replace these workhorses. HT4100, diesels, how quickly GM lost their Way and yes, am aware of CAFE.
@@eddiestanley135 Yes. 🫣
Those were the days - I'd love to be the proud owner of that aqua Coupe de Ville (1:38)
@@TomSnyder-gx5ru Yes. Really nice cars. 👍
I always thought the 68 Caddies were the best looking of that decade.
Yes. Especially the Eldorado. 👍
If we are talking the sixties,my nod would be toward the sixty five Cadillacs,but I will agree with the sixty eight ElDorado
The 472-500 Cadillac engine family had to be one of the best engines Cadillac ever made.
@ Most definitely. 👍
@@markbehr88My favorite is the Fleetwood Brougham (the one that's Sable Black with a Sandalwood vinyl roof in this video), followed by the Fleetwood Sixty Special as a close 2nd.
@ I thought that was a sedan deville due to the roofline as I first thought it was a Fleetwood too? 🤔
screams quality not todays little plastic toys
Agree. 👍
Even Caddy was down with those psychedelics of the time. I guess they were trying to attract a younger audience even then. I don’t think it worked though. Fast forward thirty some odd years and they used Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll”. I think that was to appeal mostly to the baby boomers whose parents and grandparents drove Cadillacs but were becoming far and few between. As a 50 year old now,I always preferred these land yachts of yesteryear while most others my age were going for Magnum PI’s Ferrari,Miami Vice’s Lamborghini,etc. Make Cadillacs like Cadillacs again!
@@rockerdriver Yes, I was the same. Land Yachts please.
The best I could do is to own a fleet a Jo-Han Caddy scale models.
I have two 1964s, two 1966s (hardtopsandconvertibls), a 68 DeVille convertible, a 76 Eldorado and a 79 Coupe deville.
They are pretty cool too. 👍
I learned how to drive with our 1968 caddy convertible. It was 1975 and i was 16 years old. I was mad cuz my uncle would not let me drive our brand new 1976 coupe de ville. I thought I was second rate.
@@petervitti9 Cool. It was the better car of the two. 👍
Elvis drove one of them from Memphis to Vegas in 1969
@@peterm1826 Apparently, he travelled over some rough roads and was, All Shook Up. 😀👍
…but had his favourite Hamburgers flown in on his own plane?
@ With a peanut butter sandwich. 👍
I had a 68 Fleetwood exactly like the one shown. It could burnt rubber down a like escaped convicts avoiding the police.
@@ferdiejpacheco5613 Yes, plenty of torque. 👍
Funny ad, Mark. Very 60's with the graphics thing. What size donk in your Caddy?
@@coalfacechris1336 Thanks Chris. I agree. Very 60’s graphics. 👍
A Donk in the USA is car Jacked up on ridiculously sized wheels…
@ It’s slang for an engine here. 😀👍
Am I the only one who finds the "mod/hippy" graphics out of the Cadillac of the era buyer?
@@ronbrock6153 Do you mean out of character? I agree. But it was the 1960’s! 🤔👍
Unfortunately 5 years later US hits a fuel crisis, you hope your car loan is finished by 73 although trade in price would be worthless, should have least it.
Nice green Caddy Mark, hope Caddy not that fuel thirsty on open road.
@@JimmyShields-z2h Thanks. They like a drink but that’s ok. 👍
Hi, I'm one of Mark's mates and having owned & been driving a bigger, heavier & longer 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham sedan now for 43 years, as my everyday car, PLUS a '72 Fleetwood Brougham as a spare I can confirm these are one of the most FRUGAL monster V8's ever made, Rochester carbies made a special and world first "spread-bore" 4bbl carbie EXCLUSIVELY for this and its sister 500ci engine. Now as a comparison, Caddy's mortal opposition Ford in their Lincoln division also launched their take on a powerful new V8 for the premium car, the 460 ci engine, a mere 12 cubic inches smaller than the Caddy engine. However, I owned for over a decade an Aussie constructed 1972, MY'73 Conti' MK4 coupe, both smaller, shorter & lighter than the giant Caddy, it ate fuel like there were NO tomorrows. A little bit too much acceleration in peak hour driving could see it deliver a mere 5mpg, woeful. Whereas in the dead same conditions the Cady's deliver 16 mpg. and 18 or better on the open road, a few years later the 460 was available across most Ford vehicles, and it doesn't matter what kind of car or pickup, anything with a 460 in is a guzzler. Why such a difference in the two premium brands is anyone's guess. Owning both brands of cars, using the same driving style gave mega different outcomes, equally although very nicely assembled & put together, much of the Ford product componentry does not have the same longevity as the same Caddy component, does not matter what you pick, power window lift motor, water pump none last as long as the same component in the Caddy's hence 10 years odd ownership of the Lincoln MK4 coupe, but 43 & 33 years ownership of the 2 Cadillacs, my beautiful black '74 model has 712,000klms on its original unrestored engine 700 thousand k's, it had 102,000 on it 43 years ago when I bought it as an 8 year old car, I've added the extra 610,000k's with just routine servicing using Mobil 1 synthetic oil.
So, as a daily car it worked out fine no loss in purchase price, worth more now than what I paid for it, so unlike a contemporary modern car ZERO depreciation and it's taken me from 26 years old to 68 years and if I didn't want a backup vehicle, this would have served its purpose for nearly a WHOLE adult lifetime with just one cash outlay. Many of my friends & colleagues had bought Merc's, BMW"s and the like and with regular updates to a newer model and expensive servicing their cash outlays have been staggering and the depreciation nightmarish.
@ Definitely a good run out of them Greg. See videos of Greg’s Cadillacs on the channel. 👍😎
Audio is really really low Mark. Given the music that I can hear it might not be a bad thing tho. 😄
@@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt Yes I cranked it up as much as I could. 👍