Agreed.

63 is beautiful but the 64 is the one that drives me up the wall when I see one!!!.​@loumontcalm3500

Yes the first generation was the best.

Currently have a 63 GP Aquamarine Turquoise 389 Tri Power Automatic

The first '63 GP I saw was in a dealer's showroom - white with a blue interior. I was there with my dad to pick up his '63 Olds 88, and no matter how much I pleaded with him, he wouldn't get the GP instead. Our relationship never recovered. God, I loved those aluminum wheels.

The stereo 😂😂😂

I remember....during the gas crisis and Price increase, I recall seeing big engine muscle cars all over car lots going for 995.00...

Hi from Sydney, Australia. Good on You Gary, few people make a near lifelong commitment to their car ! I have a GM Holden, Aust' built pair of "kitcar" Cadillac Fleetwood Broughams, sent as CKD kits (completely knocked down) as they needed to be built as factory right hand drive vehicles. one a 1972 in white, the other a 1974 in black. They were cancelled as a product July 1974 when GMH-A created the premium longer wheelbase Holden Statesman Caprice (basically 5.2metre long Aussie Cadillacs). I have owned the black 1974 model now for 42 years, I was in my last year of high school in '74 , so I couldn't buy a new one, however it has 705,000 kilometers on it now, it had a mere 102,000 in '82 when I bought it the white '72 model had a mere 19,000 miles on it when in 1991 I bought that one, now it has 133,000 miles on it.

That's unheard of! How many engines and transmissions have you gone through?

@@gregharvie3896 very curious about the CKD cars. I never could understand how it was more cost effective to ship a car "knocked down" versus shipping the whole car.

Why do you lie?

@@user-pr8zn6iw5t Hi there, the answer is government compliancy. With American cars, to get one registered for road use after 1965 the car had to be manufactured as RHD (right hand drive). There were secondary issues as well, vehicle lighting brightness was a Aussie federally mandated issue, and high beam in the US was minimum allowable brightness for low beam here in Australia. Also we had rear amber indicators as from July 1959, and 32 candlepower clear front turn indicators from July 1959. US wiring harness was not able to be used to convey the lighting outputs legally mandated here in OZ. Also Australians had heavier duty suspension in all local cars, heavy duty sway bars too. So that when you compare a US 1974 Caddy service manual or glovebox manual to an Aussie one there are major differences. ---PLUS--- building the car here gave an Aussie a job, and the car company then did not have to pay the punitive imported luxury car tax which at time of sale was 44.75% of purchase price before any state tax/stamp duty (10%) was applied. Plus any "pieces" of a CKD car that came here from the US came in duty free as "spare parts" so there was a defined financial component by doing CKD vehicles. As a different example, for 32 years I owned a rare long wheelbase series 1 Jaguar XJ6 (as out of 98,000 cars in 5.5 years only 2,600 were LWB's spread between lhd/rhd, Jaguar/Daimler, 4.2 ltr 6cyl /5.3ltr 12 cyl and 352 Daimler v12 Van Den Plas versions) net around 300 of each variant. My Aussie spec version was steering, and suspension equipped as if it were a British Police high speed Motorway patrol car with heavy duty wiring, heavy duty suspension, and cast alloy, thick, heavy duty road wheels with hub caps, instead of lighter gauge pressed steel ones sent to near every other country and the UK/British home market. Also AS AN ASIDE. from 1986 to 2020 I owned an Aussie built 1965 Galaxie, for '65 & '66 we did not have identified Galaxie LTD's, however there was one, they came with a vinyl roof and the pale metallic green painted police enforcer 390ci v8 with dual 4bbl carbies, the side oil filler pipe and cast alloy "dome" topped rocker covers. I bought mine from its original owner and he hated vinyl roof coverings , so had that deleted on his order. in 2010 a mate imported a 1962 Lincoln Continental now we can drive LHD cars on historic rego. It was interesting to compare the two, as all of the Aussie built 1965,'66,'67 Galaxies used a RHD version of the 1961,'62,'63 Lincoln's dash panel. My mates Lincoln had manual crank windows, and my Galaxies' crank handles were those of /from a Lincoln, my Galaxie had used the same loop pile woolen carpet as in the Lincoln, my Galaxie uses the same hydraulic operation Lincoln wiper system too. So our Aussie home market cars were more highly equipped as well at times. From 1967 there was no longer a highly equipped Aussie Galaxie offering, instead you could order a RHD 4 door Thunderbird available only as 5 seaters in premium trim with the massive front console and high-backed front seats. As of 1971 there were no further RHD 4 door Thunderbirds, from 1971 we had the new body on chassis Lincoln 4 doors as the premium 4 door Ford offering here in Australia. From 1974 the RHD 4 door Lincoln town car became the ONLY RHD US Ford offering and remained as such until 1979, as I have an Aussie built at Ford Homebush Bay, Sydney, '79 Collectors Series Town Car. The US plastic fake wood dash being asymmetric could not be used, so Ford Aust used a real wood Mahogany dash applique made by a premium furniture manufacturer Parker-Chiswell with a matchwood inlay section, instead of the US version with a raised "bit of plastic " painted gold , also premium tap, plumbing and door handle/hardware supplier Eugene Wamphler supplied beautiful cast alloy dash panels anodized in the interior color, instead of the "plastic fantastic" US dash panels , as another mate has imported a yellowy-cream '79 Town Car and I was shocked to see just how cheap the dash was, really , really cheap and tacky. Looking around the interior you could see a major difference in quality the , dash top panel in my Aussie one has padded saddle stitch leather , my mates US import has vac formed plastic which has cracked and split , also the leather on his seats has a couple of tears and splits as it is so thin, where the Aussie built car I own has thick Euro style leather and the same leather on the seats is used on the dash top and on the door upholstery.

I don't get the Miller race car fascination at all.. It looks really generic to me.

@@MarinCipollina Same here.

someone should start a business of making replacement bumpers for malaise era cars that are flush with the body. Then we can see what the designers really intended for the design

Thx!

??? 40 years apart

Syd Mead