Ebay fun for Christmas time

[Bryan Thompson]

I check out Ebay everyday to look at old Cadillacs.  Sometimes to compare to my 74 Eldorado Convertible sometimes just to look at the pretty cars.  Came across this one today.  It says it is a 74 Talisman.  So the fun part.  Does anyone here think a doctor in 1974 order this car with no tilt wheel, cruise control, vinyl to, automatic headlights ect...or did someone put a Talisman interior into a 74 Fleetwood? 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cadillac-Fleetwood-Very-rare-tailsman-1-of-anf-kind-original-1974-cadillac-fleetwood-talisman-just-/331420420608?forcerrptr=true&hash=item4d2a324a00&item=331420420608&pt=US_Cars_Trucks

[76eldo]

Would the trim tag ID it as a Talisman?

People ordered some strange combos back then.

The skin top may have kept it from rotting like most of the 70's vinyl top cars did.

My 70 convert is a low option car, no tilt, no cruise, no sentinal, and most converts were loaded.

You never know.

Brian

[James Landi]

So what's the deal with what appears to be an "off set/ asymmetrical differential...on only this on a car model?  I owned a 72 sedan back in the 80's-- and don't recall this differential.  Notice that the ELC has been abandon for load levelers. 

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

As I recall, most cars back then had slightly offset differentials. I haven't been under the 1941 lately, but I think that this is normal. As far as the low list of options on this car, back then, when they ordered their cars, since that class of people routinely ordered their cars, they didn't give a hoot about what they "should" and "shouldn't" order on their cars. They bought a new one every year, or every two years exactly how they wanted it. Nowadays, "no one" would want a low optioned car because of trade value so when the sales manager ordered cars, they had a "set" pattern of what they ordered. When I was selling cars in the 1990s, we ordered LeSabre Customs one way, and LaSabre Limiteds quite another. When my brother ordered his 1995 Riviera from me, he wanted cloth and the Bose sound system. "Standard" was leather with the best radio.
We usually had a set formula for each model and price level. DeVilles were usually ordered the same unless the purchaser wanted something special. Tops and such were usually installed locally. One of our members was the sale manager at Tutwiler's in Indy. When the Escalade came out, every one had nearly ten grand in after market wheels, tires and trim.

[Bill Young]

Odd as it is , I have seen some strange ones also. I remember a Doctor who was an aquaintance of My Parents who ordered a new 1969 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham it was white with a bright green vinyl top and white leather seats with the same bright green dash and carpet. I don't know what he had done to that car but he had me drive it right after he got it and I remember the thing was like a rocket ship and the brakes would put you thru the windshield, he just kept repeating "it's got metal to metal brakes" what ever that meant? He was later killed on Canandaigua Lake New York in his boat.

[Steve Passmore]

As I recall, most cars back then had slightly offset differentials. I haven't been under the 1941 lately, but I think that this is normal

A little offset in the 41 Barry but nothing like that 74, thats a phenomenal offset.

[James Gaffney]

Yes, wasn't that a pretty one. I love that first year. I saw the Fleetwood stationwagon on there again also.