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Web-site featuring the original factory brochures for nearly every American car

Started by Jeff Maltby 4194, January 09, 2011, 03:00:28 PM

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Jeff Maltby 4194

Jeffo 49er chapter

CLC 1985
Honda Gold Wing GL1500

Jim Salmi #21340

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.
1952 Cadillac Series 62 Sedan

TJ Hopland

Cool site, be sure to check out the misc section.  I spent more time there than on the cars.
StPaul/Mpls, MN USA

73 Eldo convert w/FiTech EFI
80 Eldo Diesel
90 CDV
And other assorted stuff I keep buying for some reason

TJ Hopland

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"

StPaul/Mpls, MN USA

73 Eldo convert w/FiTech EFI
80 Eldo Diesel
90 CDV
And other assorted stuff I keep buying for some reason

robailey

Rob Ailey
Seymour, TN

1975 Coupe Deville
1987 Fleetwood Sixty Special
2014 XTS