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1973 Cadillac Coupe DeVille Pick-up Caribou Motor Company Comments about this vehicle| Author | Message |
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◊ 2016-01-23 20:27 |
Coupe De Ville (?) converted into a pickup |
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◊ 2016-01-23 20:52 |
I'm thinking it's a Caribou |
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◊ 2016-01-24 00:46 |
If this info is correct - A little history on Caribou Coach Builders - Coach builder in the 50s-70s Took Coupes and made them into station wagons, pick ups, lengthened the hood, lots of weird conversions that never really took off Gene Winfield, a good friend of mine and famous metal fabricator, ran the shop and built most of the Caribous by hand Only five are known to have been built in 1973. I've done tons of research and can only find three (including mine) So, is this one of the five?? |
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◊ 2019-03-09 21:31 |
^ The info above sounds like Jonathan Frakes told it on the X Factor and I don't buy it. There are a lot of different versions of the Caribou story around - relationship status: It's complicated. Mr. Winfield was associated with Traditional Coachworks of L.A., who built the Cadillac Mirage Pick Up and the Castillian station wagon - but no Caribous. The Caribou was a fiberglass conversion and some say it was originally made by American Built Cars, Inc. of San Francisco. Also, a Caribou Motor Company in Grover City, CA is mentioned and Lou Schorsch gets credited for being the main Caribou engineer (more about it here) It seems like there is some truth to either version, but I believe the "original" Caribou is the one from Grover City. Even more El Camino-like Cadillac Pick Ups based on Coupe de Villes or Eldorados were offered by various companies like Hillcrest Motor Co. of Beverly Hills, Wisco Corp. of Ferndale, MI, Continental Coachbuilders of Miami, Florida or American Custom Coachworks, who are also known for limousines, convertibles and custom cars of various sorts. Anyway, this appears to be a genuine Caribou, just like the other one we already have on the site. -- Last edit: 2019-03-09 21:54:16 |
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