Those cars were tanks to. We were in a bad accident in one. There was zero impact felt and zero damage. The small pickup truck we hit was totaled and driver shaken.

Yeah sure all 156 hp

Horror design The roof pillars chrome are uneven between the windows

I too learned to drive in that same exact car, except it had color coated wheel covers. It's probable that the one here left the factory with the color coated wheel covers as well. Very few surviving Fleetwood's made it all this way with the color coated wheel covers still on them.

But these were the small Fleetwoods from the ‘70’s. 1976 was the last of a big body Fleetwood.

@@petermartinijr.1012 yes, and the funny part is Cadillac isn't the large company of the era, they measured their automobiles 123 to 127 inches. And I mean 1970 to 1976. The large companies were the ones that looked the rarest and most fascinating. By jove the big very big 1972 Thunderbird, makes the Dodge ram pickup look small, then there's the, actually I'll put a list AMC Ambassador (1969-1974) aka the Dodge Ram pick-up sedan look Thunderbird 1974-77 Dodge 1975-1977 Dodge 1970-1974 Plymouth Fury 1970-1973 Lincoln 1975-1978 Cadillac 1974-1979 Chrysler 1976-1978 Then Cadillac 1970-1973 Mercury 1976-77 Thunderbird 1972-73 Chrysler 1970-1975 Ford LTD 1970-1972 Mercury 1972-1975 Ford LTD Landau 1973-1975 Lincoln 1971-1974 (specifically Continental sedan) Duesenberg (1966) also 1980 model Imperial 1970-1975. (Lebaron) Oldsmobile 1971-75 I've only counter half the companies beside GM eating a very large chunk of it. The 70's are full of the most wonderful, elegant, and massive automobiles to be know, the Cadillac sits 7 steps down compared to the top.

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar 1980 Ford Thunderbird is boxy too

@@jesus7224 boxy doesn't mean large however, I'm referring to size. So far the Oldsmobile or Lebaron is the largest sedan.

Have you seen Duke's Cadillac in Escape from New York, with the chandeliers on the front corners of the front end? 🤭

Sounds like a d'marchand edition were the seats two tone as well?

@@youteo3596 -- Yes they were. They were silver and black with the small red outlines. It was a beautiful interior.

@@youteo3596 -- I need to make a correction here. I purchased a new 78 Coupe D' Elegance in 1978 only to turn around and sell it to my brother in 1979. In 1979 I purchased my D'Marchand edition. I was half asleep when I first posted on here. Sorry for the confusion.

Me too. ;-)

For 25 years my dad yelled at me to “NOT” slam those doors!

My name is Ron and I would like to know if this car still available

I disagree . I had a 1976 Cadillac Coupe Deville, the last of the large Cadillac's. Starting with the 1977 till the mid eighties Cadillac, they were downsized, but even these models were always considered full sized, being that most all other luxury cars, including Lincoln -although also downsized were full sized auto's. !

@@williamlacentra2808 Yes they were considered full sized, because GM was the first auto manufacturer to downsize & the industry knew everything was going to downsize over the next 2 years. But, a 1977 Caddy Fleetwood or Deville wasn’t much bigger than a 1976 midsized car. Today, a Chrysler 300 is considered full sized, but that same size car in 1976 would have been a compact car. The standard of what is a full sized car changed over the decades. By the standards of the 1970’s, a 1977 Caddy Fleetwood was not a big car even though it was considered full sized. I’ll tell you a funny story, a guy my father knew, very wealthy, had a 1976 Fleetwood Brougham. He sold it to my neighbor, and bought a 1977 Fleetwood brougham. He hated it, it was too small. He had the car lengthened to the size as a 1976. But here is the funny part, he had the car widened to the width of a 1976 Caddy. The cost to widen a car must be enormous. The seats had to be customized, the axels had to be customized, the steering had to be re-engineered, I don’t remember if the changed the dashboard. By the time he was done, it probably would have been a lot cheaper to buy a 1977 Roll Royce.

@@petermartinijr.1012 Tell me about it------My 1976 Cadillac was customized from the start, with a custom grill complete with a Bronze lacquer original Flying lady Goddess hood ornament imported from Detroit ---Other custom features included gas shocks which raised or lowered the rear of the car when more stress was placed on it. Although I sold the car in 1986 ----it cost me a fortune , considering the second gas shortage I suffered through in 1979. But all was worth the cost because that car was long distanced and drove like it was on cloud nine. I sold the car in 1986, because of the changing times and because I knew that parts were getting more difficult to acquire . That said----that Is the same reason why I would never buy the above 1978 Cadillac being sold, -the parts issue, especially because of the over 144k Mileage...these cars are good for wealthy collectors to store in a garage .!

@@williamlacentra2808 Must have been a nice car, what model & color Caddy was it? Why did you change the shocks? The 1976 Fleetwood Broughams had automatic level control standard, and was optional on the Cailles & Devilles. My family owned a limousine livery service. All Cadillacs, limousines, hearses, flower cars. I remember seeing the new 1977 Caddy’s for the first time & saying they can’t downsize the limousines they will be too small, was I wrong. By today’s standards that 1977 limousine is gargantuan, but back then it was small. My father always drove full sized cars, but he didn’t like Cadillacs, he liked Buick Electra 225’s mostly, in 77 he switched to Chrysler New Yorker. 1978 he didn’t have a car, I don’t remember why, he drove one of the hearses as his daily car all day. So every year he bought a new car, and in 1979 he broke down and surprised me & bought a Cadillac. I wanted him to buy a Lincoln Continental, but he said it was like driving a limousine all day and wanted a downsized car. That’s why he bought a Cadillac. In 1980 he switched to the Lincoln Continental Mark VI. I liked everything about that Caddy except the color, the only time my mother didn’t pick the color.

@@williamlacentra2808 Those big Cadillacs rode nice. I was only in my early teens in the late 1970’s, but I prefer those cars to the ones today. They rode better, the seats were more comfortable, you had room to stretch your legs on long trips. They cut a lot of corners in the 70’s so build quality wasn’t there, but styling and comfort much better than today. And I really hate all the technology and infotainment in cars today.

I thought the B Body’s lasted through 96?

These Cadillacs are D bodies.

@@illstatenolove The Cadillac shown is actually a C body. The D body for this era was a stretched version of the platform shown and was used for limos. In 1985, GM moved the C Body designation to a different, smaller platform and also stopped making the original D body limos. As a result, the platform shown above was rebranded a D body in 1985 and stayed this way until it was discontinued in 1996. It's a bit confusing, but that's GM for you.

1980 Ford Thunderbird

I agree. I had two 98s. A smaller version of that, more or less. The greatest interiors ever.

Pride in ownership at it’s finest

Won't happen with a BMW or Mercedes-Benz either. 😅

@@specialtymotorcars It truly shows.

@@caleblane7619 I am not very optimistic about it either ;)