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23/07/2024 9:31 pm
Here is a picture from my Dad's files of the 1953 Cadillac Le Mans on display. This picture is a professional one of the show car and may have been taken of the display before the Chicago Automobile Show opened at the International Amphitheater that year.
This is a beautiful fiberglass 331 cid V-8 powered Harley Earle dream car shown the same year the legendary Corvette debuted, as a dream and then production car.
Four of these Cadillac's were originally built. #1 is at General Motors on display. #2 was destroyed later in a fire. #3 was modified into a later 4-headlight/revised fin show car by General Motors and #4 disappeared completely and mysteriously in November, 1953 in Oklahoma.
I don't know which one this is that is in my father's files, but it sure is a beautiful automobile !
24/07/2024 3:45 am
love seeing your dads old pic collection Mike. Along with the great stories behind them. Interesting unique historical tales.
24/07/2024 5:07 am
It's been said before and doubtless will again, but you should consider compiling a book of your father's files and your own research work.
24/07/2024 5:51 am
love seeing your dads old pic collection Mike. Along with the great stories behind them. Interesting unique historical tales.
Giant +1! And many grateful "thank you's" for posting them.
24/07/2024 5:52 am
It's been said before and doubtless will again, but you should consider compiling a book of your father's files and your own research work.
I'd gladly second this excellent notion!
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24/07/2024 3:30 pm
Thanks ! Here are a couple of pictures from the internet showing the show 2 seat sports Cadillac at General Motors photographic studios along with a pretty gal model. It is intriguing to think a mysterious lost fourth vehicle may still be out there somewhere.
24/07/2024 3:50 pm
That long rear deck is intriguing! It has space like that of a pick up truck. Incredible car for its time!
24/07/2024 6:34 pm
It is intriguing to think a mysterious lost fourth vehicle may still be out there somewhere.
oh yeah! I love that sort of intrigue!
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25/07/2024 8:23 pm
Yes, it really fires the imagination to imagine what has happened to it ! Perhaps in some secret collection ; or smuggled to another country (but never shown publicly); or in some junkyard somewhere nearly unrecognizable now. And there could also be some other scenario one might think of .........
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