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Title: Web-site featuring the original factory brochures for nearly every American car
Post by: Jeff Maltby 4194 on January 09, 2011, 03:00:28 PM
Enjoy ! 

Pick the manufacturer, the year and the model. 

http://www.lov2xlr8.no/broch1.html 
Title: Re: Web-site featuring the original factory brochures for nearly every American car
Post by: Jim Salmi #21340 on January 09, 2011, 04:43:22 PM
Jeff,

Thanks, great post!  It sure shows that Cadillac "back in the day" understood who their buyer was, and what the car was and wasn't.  It was for the early middle-aged aspiring successful bourgeois buyer, period.  No pickup trucks, no sports cars, no pretense at being the teenager's dream (tho most of this club probably did) machine.  It was for the adult, white-collar market.  When did they lose their way?

As an aside, do you have any shots of engine compartments?  Or, does anyone know where they might be?  Sure would help in authenticity questions.
Title: Re: Web-site featuring the original factory brochures for nearly every American car
Post by: TJ Hopland on January 09, 2011, 05:54:45 PM
Cool site, be sure to check out the misc section.  I spent more time there than on the cars.
Title: Re: Web-site featuring the original factory brochures for nearly every American car
Post by: TJ Hopland on January 09, 2011, 07:05:18 PM
Check out the 76 Gm catalog.   
http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/misc/76gm/76gm.html

Its nice to know that the 76 Eldorado was a "personal size car" 
Apparently GM was anticipating that Americans were on their way to becoming obese?

A Deville is "regular size"
A Seville is "international size"

A Firebird and a Chevette are both "small size"

Title: Re: Web-site featuring the original factory brochures for nearly every American car
Post by: robailey on January 09, 2011, 09:43:37 PM
Great site!!!!! Thanks