Posted on 09/22/2009 2:56:20 AM PDT by Daffynition
Thanks for Sharing this, wow, sure brings back memories.
Thanks. I love stories like this.
Living vicariously.
Vintage car porn, SG.
I worked in a Texaco as a kid around 1955,every year it was fun to see where Caddy hid the gas filler.....That 1st shot of the tail light poking out of the garage reminded me of just that....Good read thanks
built back when cars were cars and each make / model was unique. not like today where everything looks like everything else.
man these pics bring back memories, not that my dad ever made enough to own a caddy (he was an olds guy through and through), but I remember these caddys drivin down the road when I was but a lad..
Yeah, the tail lights are interesting, but those humongous chrome boobs up front really get your attention!
Amen.
My dad was a *Buick* man. Hard working middle-class. Never owned anything else until the last years of his life.
He walked into the Cadillac dealer, paid cash for a Coupe de Ville. Mom was mortified. She said she needed a mink coat just to ride in it. She could never, in her mind, justify it.
We told her, dad deserved it to himself after all those years of sacrificing and providing for us.
Dang car was rife with problems that they could never seem to get corrected. I felt bad for him, he was unlucky to get a lemon. Life!
My mom told me a story about her dad. He bought a Buick once and the salesman promised him he would get 100,000 miles out of it (at the time, that was a lot). Well, he didn’t want to make a liar of the salesman, so he held onto it well past it’s prime. It got so shabby that my grandmother refused to ride in it.
That was the end of the Buick.
Eisenhower era ping!
Go for a hell of price on parts on Havana E bay!
/sarc
Nice rides.
If you drove a caddy in those days, the above was almost an automatic to be ridin in the passenger seat..:)
WOW!
Very impressive.
A trip to the past.
Lord, how beautiful. This is like finding a chest full of gold doubloons.
Vancouver is really wet. That garage looks damp. No way are those original.
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ping
Reminds me of an old rockabilly song of that era:
I had a roll with my coffee, found a rock in my soup
Got a roll in my pocket and a Cadillac coupe
Gonna roll that cat tonight
Gonna find that joint and rock till the broad daylight
Gonna rock a-rock-a-rock-a
Gonna roll a-roll-a-roll-a
I’m gonna rock and roll until I lose
Those mean old rock and roll blues
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