Showing posts with label Cadillac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cadillac. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

great photos on Hellformotors tumblr

You don't need me to tell you it's the Galpin Ford sponsored "Back Up Pick Up" unusual wheelstander, but you can't read that this is Lions in 1971
Briggs Cunningham at Le Mans 1950. Who is Briggs? race car driver and museum owner, and a sports car legend as he was one of the first in the 1950's to go all the way to try and win the European races as an American, like Reventon did after him, and Shelby after Reventon http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/le-monster-of-briggs-cunningham.html
From the movie "The Quest" http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-is-something-you-really-ought-to.html



http://hellformotors.tumblr.com for many more interesting and variety of wide range photos of race cars

Cadillac ambulances rusting away after decades in a forest









Found on http://www.professionalcarsociety.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5688

Friday, 13 May 2011

unrestored 1932 Cadillac 7 passenger Imperial sedan



The current owner kept tabs on this car for a loooonnnng time. His college roommate's dad bought it in 1938 for his wife, and in the late 1970's moved it to Oregon, and 30 some years later this owner bought the car he'd been keeping track of since 1970









The little white button above the armrest is to call the driver

Saturday, 9 April 2011

1961 Cadillac Brougham Jacqueline coupe, body by Pinin Farina


full story from Hemmings at http://www.hemmings.com/hcc/stories/2009/05/01/hmn_feature9.html

One just sold at Bonhams Auctions, it went for $289,000

The Jacqueline was named for the wife of the American President at the time, it debuted at the 1961 paris Auto Show. In the 1990's the head of Cartier, Alain Perrin had the concept (no powertrain) grafted to a 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz