By Rob
This was a pleasant sight upon waking up one morning in the beautiful – but very remote – arctic cold of Northern Sweden. Our chassis controls expert, Konrad, spotted this and took the photo of a nice old Cadillac (looks like from the early 1970s) that’s holding up nicely in these tough conditions. This is no show car – looks like a real runner. Notice the new tires and wheels. Needless to say, this is a pretty unlikely spot for a vintage Caddy and a nice surprise.
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I think that is a 1967 Cadillac (if not a '66).
Posted by: getalifeagain | February 16, 2007 7:14 PM
Looks like a 1966
Posted by: Brad | February 17, 2007 3:12 AM
This is an excellent blog, and Cadillac should be proud of it and their products. I think it should catch on with GM bloggers as it is seen and because more technical details are put into each article.
Posted by: getalifeagain | February 18, 2007 1:05 PM
I agree with Brad. The 1965 had the same body but different cornering lights. 1967 had the leaning-forward look in the front. You didn't investigate and chastise the owner for leaving it out in the snow?
Posted by: Ralph | February 20, 2007 12:35 AM
This is NOT an unlikely spot for an old Caddy! Sweeden is famous for providing a second home to any americam car with fins, and using them as daily drivers. Ask the guys in Trolhatten.
Posted by: Hi Tech | February 20, 2007 9:59 PM
Its a '66
You'd think the people designing the cars would know the predecessors to what they are building now. That Cadillac designers would make such a mistake seems to me a lack of passion for the brand.
I am a Cadillac fan, but Cadillac and GM have a long way to go before they will be the best. More passion please.
Posted by: Vancity Caddy Owner | February 23, 2007 2:19 AM
Yes, it's a '66 Coupe de Ville. If it was a lookalike '92-'02 Eldorado, I could understand the vague guess as to what year it was. When are we going to see another Eldorado?
Posted by: Jim | February 23, 2007 12:34 PM
I'm not sure that a designer needs to have the encyclopedic knowledge of each year and their changes to have a good sense of what came before and what styling cues should be used and how they should be used.
However, your comments miss the point entirely. The designer isn't out there in Sweden playing in the snow. These are testing engineers from what I've seen on the job postings for GM and other companies, the duties of a designer do not involve testing, and a tester does not involve designing. I would feel much more comfortable with an test engineer who knew everything there is to know about setting up systems to make the car function as expected and not be able to ID any Cadillac on a road, than one who can give the year of each Cadillac by a quick glimpse of a snow covered car (or even a photo...it lasts longer).
The focus of this blog seems to be from the perspective of their test drivers and test engineers...this foible shows us two things...the blog posts may actually be written by people in the field and not some desk jockey and that some desk jockey isn't censoring every post back at HQ. Both of these points are very good things for GM and for the life of this blog.
Posted by: Scot S. | February 25, 2007 10:41 AM
this cadillac is probably a 65 or 66 cadillac. In 1967 0r 68, GM gave the grille kind of a forward slant to it.
Posted by: Nicola | June 30, 2008 1:01 AM