1948 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special [6069]
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Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2007-08-01 23:27 |
Black one. |
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◊ 2007-08-01 23:59 |
I think, it's a Cadillac (1951 or 1952?), the model I don't know. |
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◊ 2007-08-02 00:29 |
I reckon 1949 Sixty Special. |
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◊ 2007-08-02 01:09 |
It's a 1948 Cadillac "Series 60 Special" sedan (the 1949 model has a fancy molding that wraps around the front fenders from the perking lights back to the front wheel wells. Compare these two catalog illustrations : http://www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_ima/4860sa.JPG [1948] http://www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_ima/4960s.jpg [1949] |
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◊ 2007-08-02 01:35 |
This is Place Vendôme in Paris, isn't it? |
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◊ 2007-08-02 14:38 |
Yes, I think you are right. If there were more image to the right you would see the 120ft bronze "Colonne Vendôme" (the "Vendôme Column") on top of which stands Napoléon I. The propagandists assert that the bronze outer casing is made from 1200 canon captured from Russian and Austrian armies. Historians are agreed on "only" 130 canon seized at the Battle of Austerlitz. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Colonne_Vend%C3%B4me.jpg Free history lesson. Now back to cars and movies. |
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◊ 2009-08-01 04:36 |
Place Vendôme?! Try MGM back lot. Would they have used so much American iron in Paris? R |
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◊ 2009-08-01 10:32 |
hmm yes, why not? |
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◊ 2009-08-01 10:56 |
Especially in Place Vendôme .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2011-07-10 17:25 |
There probably was a lot of American cars in Europe in '50-'51 (relative to now) for two reasons 1,Europe was still rebuilding after the war Domestic French cars likely still scarce (Esp.luxury models). 2,All things American would have been popular in post war France. P.S. The Packard and the Cadillac were the Top of the heap American cars of the day, So In Europe they would have likely to been viewed as "High End Imports" to upper class French, Like upper class Americans viewed A Rolls-Royce or a Mercedes-Benz. And While a Rolls-Royce might be welcomed in Post War France, I Doubt that a Mercedes-Benz would have been welcomed execpt, maybe as a captured Nazi war trohpy! |
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◊ 2011-07-10 20:12 |
IIRC in about 1952 or 3 the French government introduced punitive taxation for cars above 2 litres, so this would have been the swansong for Cadillacs unless you were extremely rich. |
