Posted on 03/15/2023 12:27:14 PM PDT by knarf
I occasionally noodle around in Youtube memory lane, and All In The Family is a favorite place to straighten out my head.
But, what the heck's a Lasalle, anyway ?
My 3rd grade teacher had a LaSalle convertible.
I’m guessing it was 1938?
That line is an often misheard lyric.
I always heard it as We were all a cell rat’s mate.
LaSalle was the entry level brand for Cadillac before the GM restructuring of the Cadillac brand.
Think of it like what Toyota did with Scion.
“It wasn’t cheap—it was sold under the Cadillac division.”
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Correct
I heard: D-r-o the sour red grape. Couldn’t make heads nor tails of it. LOL
My grandmother had a Lasalle. It ran great.
In his 2013 article, "GM's Road Not Taken", Robert Cumberford reviewed the restoration of GM's 1955 Motorama La Salle II Roadster. Cumberford likened the Roadster to a harbinger of GM's future. While the Roadster concept showcased important new technology, including an aluminum block, double overhead cam and fuel-injected V6, the technology went unrealized. GM instead emphasized styling over engineering advancement for the decades that followed and did not bring "an aluminum block, fuel-injected, overhead-cam V-6 into production until 2004".
General Motors’ market-segmentation strategy placed each of the company’s individual automobile marques into specific price ranges, called the “General Motors companion make program”. The Chevrolet was designated as the entry-level product. Next, (in ascending order), came the Pontiac, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Viking, Marquette, Buick, LaSalle, and Cadillac.
Figures
LaSalles were made by Cadillac, but not labeled as Cadillacs. They were a slightly cheaper version of Cadillac. The brand was discontinued in 1941. In the GM hierarchy of things, it would have been below Cadillac but above Buick. Cadillac, LaSalle, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and then Chevrolet.
Yes, I’m sure the Meathead scared many potential liberals over to the right.
Buick didn't make a LaSalle, they made the LeSabre. LaSalle was made by Cadillac, but was not labeled as a Cadillac. It had its own line.
I always thought they were talking about the football team.
And it worked, fairly well until the end of WWII, then German and British cars started making inroads into their market share, then the 60’s and the Japanese cars, now its South Korean cars. They better hope and pray the Chinese don’t......................
The car was undoubtedly named after René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a Frenchman who explored the Midwest in the seventeenth century. Similarly, Chrysler named a car after Hernando de Soto, who explored the area a century earlier.
Incidentally, we had a 1946 de Soto, which was a great vehicle. After the the de Soto model was discontinued in 1961, the dealership in Whittier, Calif. closed, but for years afterwards, Hernando gazed over the empty showroom, his bust illuminated by a tubular neon light.
100% correct! I got online after I posted to search the exact car she owned and it was a LaSabre. All these decades I misremembered it as a LaSalle.
I believe the LeBaron was a Chrysler vehicle. One of those real sexy ‘K’ Cars.
I went decades trying to figure out that line.
Yes, the LaSalle was in a way an entry level Cadillac. When GM brought out the Cadillac Seville in 1975, they seriously considered naming it the LaSalle, but decided against it because the original was a poor seller, due to the Depression.
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