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1978 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine

1978 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine in Face/Off, Movie, 1997 IMDB

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: US

1978 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine

** Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

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oucadman US

2006-09-27 20:05

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I would say this is a Deville model due to the straight B-pillar post. The tail lights indicate the year of 1978 or 1979.

mrcadillac SX

2006-09-28 05:45

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Let's stop trying to put DeVille, Fleetwood or Eldorado labels on these custom stretched jobs. The are simply custom stretched limousines built by independent coachbuilders on Cadillac chassis. They are NOT recognized by GM Cadillac as "their" cars.

antp BE

2006-09-28 17:38

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But if it is based on a DeVille, the basis is still a DeVille, even if it is modified...

oucadman US

2006-10-03 15:46

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I agree antp. Even if this car were modified by a coachbuilder they would not change the B-pillar post (the one in-between the front and rear door). The Fleetwood had a tapered B-pillar post that was wide at the top and narrowed at the bottom, whereas the Deville had the same width at top and bottom (as seen in the picture) I know that people are going to disagree with this, but the car pictured is a Cadillac produced "formal" limo. It was only about 18 inches longer than the standard car and had a small flip up seat behind the front seat for extra passengers.

Benzilla US

2007-01-10 09:09

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It's a Deville.

G-MANN UK

2007-02-17 14:44

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Coachbuilders take a Cadillac body and extend it so their limos basically extended version of Cadillac models, it's not like they made the whole body from scratch, they took an existing Cadillac body.

wrenchhead US

2007-02-17 17:47

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G-MANN wrote Coachbuilders take a Cadillac body and extend it so their limos basically extended version of Cadillac models, it's not like they made the whole body from scratch, they took an existing Cadillac body.


You are right G-mann, these are modified cars not entirely new creations. They just cut them in two and put a custom chunk in the middle. They are in the same basic category as a hot rod made from a recognizable chassis. If we call a T-bucket hot rod a modified/custom model T Ford, I don't see the big problem with naming these things according to the chasis that was modified. All we have to do is put stretched, modified or custom in the extra info field and we are correct. We could of course apply the name only to the front and read of the limo and leave the middle part unknown :D
Edit:
The company currently advertises stretched limos as Cadillacs and supports their creation See: Link to "www.cadillac.com"

-- Last edit: 2007-02-17 18:00:43

drujon US

2007-11-14 00:04

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It's actually a factory Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine.

antp BE

2007-11-14 00:08

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Hmm but Benzilla identified it as a Deville... who's right?

drujon US

2007-11-15 16:58

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Here's a photo from the 1978 Cadillac Full-Line brochure
http://www.gmphotostore.com/prodinfo.asp?number=53218463

You can see the factory limousine in the back.

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