Until that is you drove the same year Lincoln... Funny, there was a Lincoln aptly named, the Zephyr (which is a direct reference to clouds!)

Actually, a zephyr is a gentle breeze, not a cloud.

First car I ever owned was a 1978 Chrysler (Brougham) New York. Nice car drove like a boat on water, and I could drive it with one finger.

Everyone has them but USA. China (forget it’s name🤔) Germany Great Britain Maybach Bentley Rolls Royce No Cadillac🇺🇸

@greenmean1 ,

😮😮😮🤤🤤🤤 Me looking at Eldorado

With those huge fins, and the 'rocket-exhaust' taillights, they were gorgeous; and I miss them so much.

that $7100 in 1959 is $63,000 today.

1959 is number one for me too.

Yeah, that was a neat feature!

When my older brother got back from Vietnam in 1970, he scoured the area we lived in for the best '62 Coupe Deville he could find--It was his dream car from childhood. This car was sky blue-green, had crisp straight lines & was low-slung to the ground. The '61-63 models weren't bulbously curvy like the '50's models, and not inflated boxcars of those that followed. He eventually drove it into the ground, & the next Caddie he replaced it with ( a "68) was a poor substitute. Sigh.

A friend had that on a Buick Wildcat.

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@@davecroston2914 I bought a 1962 Couple deVille from a neighbor back in 1969 (while I was still in high school). That was a nice car, and I believe the styling was was a refined improvement over the similar 1961. Of course in 1963 the lower pair of fins was eliminated, and that was also a nice car, along with the somewhat more curved 1964.

Yes my favorite was the 1973 even the Coupe deville was long big and beautiful

They were pretty silly.They were ridiculously big on the outside, but the interior room was only ordinary.

@@CaptHollister Maybe, compared with other land yachts of those days. But there isn't a car made today that I can stretch my legs all the way out. In those cars I didn't have to put the seat all the way back, plus you could put 6 people in them. But it's the ride quality that is most impressive to me.

I owned a 74 Fleetwood in the early 80's. Silent at idle and surprisingly easy to parallel park because it turned sharply. Other cars would get out of my way when merging.

@@rays7437 A bold statement... I think you'll find that there are many cars made today in which you can stretch without moving the seat all the way back, for example something as mundane as a Hyundai Sonata has 3 inches more front leg room than any 70s Caddy.. The Caddy could sit 6 in a pinch, but you wouldn't want to be the middle passenger in the rear and even less in the front. As for the ride, it's true they floated on the road, but I remember that the rear would jump sideways several inches if you hit a pothole or expansion joint mid corner and if you hit a seriously potholed stretch of road, the suspension quickly lost all composure and the whole car would dance and wallow all over your lane. Don't get me wrong, they were good cars for cross-country trips and the trunk was large enough that you could rent it out on AirBnB, but for any other use they were very, very mediocre cars.

Thank you for your comments Mitch, I remembered that the Fleetwood brougham Talisman was also the most expensive car Cadillac made back then! I seen the sticker price of $18,000 back in 1975! Adjusted to inflation that would be $100 grand today. Back then a formal limousine (like the kind funeral homes would buy) was just a few dollars more!

A family friend (from church; this becomes somewhat ironic as my brief tale rolls on) had a blue '74 Fleetwood Talisman. I was able to borrow it for prom night my junior year. Yeahhhh.... (Dad: "Please, son - clean up Ol' Moneybags's car before you take it back.")

@@glennoropeza3545 From Sydney , Australia ,In september 2022 will have owned a Sable Black '74 Talisman 40 years , with black vinyl roof & a factory "gold" (peanut butter/mustard color) leather & brocade interior, it's original owner did not want the bordello style velour seat trim, additionally like me he hated a sunroof so it has a full steel roof, It has EVERY option bar sunroof & thermometre on exterior mirror. Mine even has the early GM traction control & ABS rear brakes , PLUS ,GM Airbags , the super rare ARCS (air cushion restraint system) . New here in may 1974 in Aussie dollars it was $29,000, a new Rolls Royce Camargue was a "mere" $27500 !! WHY so expensive , well an unfinished /incomplete car was shipped to GM-Holden ,Pagewood , Sydney , Australia , whereby GMH-A would build it as a original RHD car , also with metric kilometre speedo. GMH-A fabricated the RHD firewall, Dash , Steering arms & draglinks. from 1971 they only did Fleetwoods & the Buick Rivieras until June 1974 , when GMH-A released its own "mini" Cadillac the Statesman Caprice which even used a lot of Cadillac fittings ( same size as USA '76to '79 Caddy Seville), including the Cadillac ABS rear brake system .

Nice!

Yes it is, And always a welcomed sight in modern traffic. Though I personally prefer the 58 sedan Deville.

All El Dorados are immediately recognized.

@@og-greenmachine8623 loo

Yes, even people who aren't car people know the 59 Cadillac.

Rick Loera all they are now is a Chevy with a Cadillac emblem. With overpriced extras 🤔

John Drohan And who makes Corvette. That’s what I thought 🤔

@John Drohan standard OF the world.

@John Drohan I have had many RWD "C" Body GM cars from model years from 50s thru the 80s, And I can confirm. They top end Buicks were very similar to "entry level" Cadillacs, Cadillac would have an exclusive engine in most of those years, But transmissions, (Esp after 1964 on the Buicks) major suspension and body parts were the same in each generation. Compare for example a 1970 Buick Electra 225 to a 1970 Cadillac DeVille - Very Similar in nature, size and perfomance (With Caddy using the 472cid V8 and Buick using the 455cid V-8 (shared with Oldsmobile 98) - The Fleetwoods thru 1976 having an exclusive (longer) wheelbase than the DeVille gave one an owner driven limo! No one in the 60s and 70s could produce a large luxury car like GM. The big (C-Body) Oldsmobiles ,Buicks and Cadillacs were all majestic machines! Lincoln sedans, While nice, (to me) were more comparable to Buick Electra or Chrysler New Yorker than any Cadillac. The 1960's Imperial was a fine machine also, but never sold in numbers enough to worry Cadillac! GM as well as Ford and Chrysler shared body and mechanical components among their lines. I'm still suprised that people think this is NEWS, It's been a "thing" since the 1930s! No one points out that for YEARS Bentley and Rolls-Royce "production" models used the same body! I guess it's only a "sin" if American companies (or GM in particular) does it.

@@paulht3251 Yeah, It's GM they make both.... So...? Ford makes Fords and Lincolns, GM makes Chevrolets, Buicks and Cadillacs - Often there is component sharing - Not News. They have done this since before WWII.

The '71-'76 Fleetwoods needed the space of an aircraft carrier too, I used to say I needed a building permit instead of a parking permit for my '74!, By the 1980's parking spaced were getting smaller, and finding a space for her was a challenge in the city!

@@jamesslick4790 My parents had a '74 Sedan DeVille, and my dad had to park it in the driveway because the garage wasn't big enough for both it and the washer and dryer.

@@ApartmentKing66 This was a problem with Cadillacs even by the early 60s, They put out 2 "shorter" models then :Town Sedan and Park Avenue. (the latter was to be more famous as a Buick later). I understand the frustration of the 71-76 DeVille owners, The Fleetwood was three inches longer yet! No garage built before 1959 could be able to house either!

...ADDING CHROME TO AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER....THAT IS GREAT !!👏👏😁😁

It has couch seats, must be so comfy on road trips

The 1949 was also nice, with a somewhat simpler grille.

There are so many 59 s here in England and Sweden !! Amazing they survived

I have been on roads in England where a VW Polo was to wide to fit. Not to mention the expensive gas.

Thank you from Dorset England! I have been and driven in the U.K., Driven RHD was surprisingly easy! Unfortunately most Brits prefer diesel power over gasoline (petro) and Cadillac is mostly gas powered so the market isn't favorable for Cadillacs.

My Granddad was a farm equipment dealer who gave a rancher a sweetheart deal on a whole trainload of big Farmalls to engineer a trade for a chocolate-brown '64 with a butter-cream leather interior. When I was a young pup we had so much fun riding around in that car. When I hit my last stop on the line, I'll go cruisin' with Granddad again

Agree.

@@rogersmith7396 1950 Packard hard to find and neglected by old car enthusiasts today? Would be an interesting comparison to the '50 Cadillacs or even against '50 Pontiac of course Packard's automatic transmission was probably a liability compared to the Hydramatics that were available on Cadillac and even Pontiac in 1950 A manual trans '50 Packard with overdrive and short final drive gearing with the larger Packard Straight 8 would be interesting to drive I think

@@davidpowell3347 I've thought it would be fun to have a Cadillac 1950 Series 61 sedan (black, of course, although I know other colors were available), which was a 'basic' model but I like the styling, and in particular the rear quarter styling which was different from the Series 62 and the Fleetwood 60 Special. It was an understated model that probably has less of a following than many other Cadillac models.

@@bobjacobson858 I believe that my father aspired to own one of those. I believe it had the same drivetrain as the more gigantic Cadillacs so likely it had the best performance of any Cadillac of its era. I would guess that it could be optioned with the same features as other GM cars of the era such as a radio with more tubes than found in other car radios and an underseat heater core/box with recirculator fan. The 1950 Pontiac had the underseat heater which could make the cars quite comfortable even when outside temperatures were below freezing.

what with the benz

Yuck.

I thought the '58 or '60 was better. Those fins were a bit too much.

I prefer the 57-58 Eldorado four door with rear hinged doors. That car would be right for today where a ‘59 could only be driven today on an empty road.

Too gaudy for my tastes. Late 40's thru 55 were the best.

Lynx Star, Those were the most solid looking cars ever made. They were also easy to get in and out of.

Good story.

Look up the price a now. Saw 1 for 60 thou!

Denver Colorado: Slightly used 72 El Dorado sitting on the lot: $7,000.00. The exterior was good to go. The interior easy fixes. I could see a reason for the low price. This was 2007.

Sam Iam at least it won’t get yer pappy to drinkin.

My dad had a '72 coupe de ville 472 ci good car

All I can say is- Cadillac Cimarron- one of the most HORRIBLE cars ever- for them to call that THING a Cadillac - makes me want to throw up

@@jimcurt99 Point well taken.

What a beautiful design

I know a guy that owns a red 65 convertible, with white interior. They just don’t build em like that anymore.

Make some videos on them! Would love to see them

i'd say 1970 was the last year of beautiful caddys, the last 3rd gen de villes.

i wish i could get a 66 de ville some day

i have a '70 de ville and its also pretty nice

I had a 1980 Coupe de Ville with d'Elegance package.. One very sweet ride..

Agreed - I had a 78 Seville, two tone silver gray with TruSpokes and wish I still had it. Sheer elegance.

And I had a 79 Seville ,goldish color, with a hardtop what a beautiful looking car, and I might still try and find another one.

Looks like all the olds and Buick notchbacks. Not great.

Seville was good because it had one of the last real Olds engines.

@@davidpowell3347 They started using Chevy 350s in 1973.

I think that the Cadillac is car..of car d

Jason Rogers I as well

They had a bulletproof drive train. Chevy engine and Chevy Blazer differential. I bought in 1992 Cadillac El Dorado TC weeks before the 1993s came out. I still have the El Dorado alive and well. Slowly replacing things that have worn out, like the fuel injectors which were replaced last week.

I saw one a few years back I think It was a 92 and I know it had a 5.7 in it and you couldn't hear it run

I owned a '93 Fleetwood Brougham, dark blue, tan leather interior, moonroof; utterly amazing, driving on a cloud, effortless elegance & smoothness. Last of that traditional Cadillac era unfortunately.

Bought a 94 FWB several years ago for my everyday driver...best car I ever owned...still beautiful and running strong at 164,000 miles

Or a rebadged opel

@@oliverdelgado6952 You are thinking of Buick,LOL.

@@jamesslick4790 hey cool guy have you heard of cadillac catera?

@@oliverdelgado6952 Yes, BTW, note the "LOL" It wasn't supposed to be a serious comment..

@Constitutionalist Libertarian I honestly thought it shared the Nova platform ? Lol

Wow! Never heard that one. Thanks. (the 1908 Brooklands thing)

I own a 1958 brougham in deauville grey and I was surprised not to see one in this video

Huh?

Agreed, 57'-58' Eldorado Brougham is exponentially more collectable, and deservedly so. Additionally, the 67' Eldorado has to be on this list.

Please keep in mind that the price point for the 57-58 Broughams @ $15K made them MORE EXPENSIVE than a Rolls Royce. There are a lot more Rolls Clouds from that time frame. Some of the RR from that period are still daily drivers. I'm a HUGE Cadillac fan. I'm still glad that I have my grampy's 1958 RR Cloud.

My grandma had 2 1977 coupe devilles good cars

I had me a red on red on red 1976 Cadillac Couple deVille. That was the cat's meow! You could do everything in it except take a shower.

I agree,I have ´76 conv with EFI it´s a dream to drive!!! 7mpg but still worth every buck!

My late husband was molested by a priest.

I can see why it gets looks. And actual big Cadillac!

Well said.

You are not lying

Same width inside as all GM full sized cars, actually. They all have the same windshield and internal body structure.

I envay to you

Yep. I had a 1975 Fleetwood series 75 GM limo. A couple of feet longer than the Sedan Deville.

Michael Sharp why would u want to lay down in a car....?

I say the same as well very futuristic the '67-'68 was cool , if I can fit a 400 motor in it , I would put it in 😜

@@marcomoreno8188 why stop at 400 why not go 500 like what GM did

Not to big not to small , I'm an underdog for the 396, 400 motor.

That’s what I just posted...exactly what you said ‘67 Eldo was da 💣

67 Eldorado on list

Right

All that brilliant chrome on the dash was a disaster in bright sunlight. There's a reason nobody does that anymore.

The '75s were nice, yes. Full-sized comfort!

I had one and loved it! Same experience!

I am 54,love the 50 s and the 60 s cars from the usa,they are beautiful

I had a 76 and I'm 81. Or was it an 81 in 76? Don't really matter any more cause they took away my driver's license after I parked it in a canal. It did float tho.

From ‘48-58 we ruled the roads almost without peer.

The last of an era those D body Fleetwoods of the 90's.

I still get that with mine

@@Dog.soldier1950I saw you! That’s a Honda Civic you drive!

@@Dog.soldier1950joke-lofl

@@oscarprendergast7295 hahah. No a 2019 Cadillac

Hate those new names !

Eric Martin I just want a true RWD full size Coupe DeVille.

I had rode in both the Fleetwood and Saville and they are great cars.

That’s what I’ve been saying all along, Lincoln too! Nobody will remember these random alphanumeric names that change from year to year. Fleetwood, Seville, Brougham, Biarritz, Eldorado, people remember those. And when you build on a name that people remember, you’re building on the marque, and on models that buyers will come back to time and again like a favorite parking spot. Somehow they forgot all that.

I agree

My Uncle bought one brand new from the factory that had a Rolls Royce front grill. I remember hims saying it cost over 17 thousand dollars.

Stunning? The 1st Gen Seville is a rebadged Malibu. The upscale trim makes a nice car but it's about as generic as anything Cadillac ever made.

@LA Ryan,@FMChimera The 1st generation Seville has nothing to do with a Chevrolet Malibu or Caprice. The 1st generation Seville was loosely based on a heavily modified RWD X Body chassis with its own body. Cadillac had seen to it that it would ride, drive and look like proper Cadillac.

" a proper Cadillac"

I own 1 their amazing