1978 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine
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Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2006-09-27 20:05 |
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. |
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◊ 2006-09-28 05:45 |
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. |
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◊ 2006-09-28 17:38 |
But if it is based on a DeVille, the basis is still a DeVille, even if it is modified... |
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◊ 2006-10-03 15:46 |
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. |
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◊ 2007-01-10 09:09 |
It's a Deville. |
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◊ 2007-02-17 14:44 |
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. |
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◊ 2007-02-17 17:47 |
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  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 |
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◊ 2007-11-14 00:04 |
It's actually a factory Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine. |
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◊ 2007-11-14 00:08 |
Hmm but Benzilla identified it as a Deville... who's right? |
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◊ 2007-11-15 16:58 |
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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◊ 2009-10-14 00:20 |
You are right. I have actually had one of these, this particular model and year, for five years. A GREAT riding and VERY reliable car, by the way. It is made by Cadillac for sure. If you look into how they might have done it, after they started the down-size models in 1977, it looks like the took the rear from a de Ville and the front from a Fleetwood and added a customized rear door. Not like the 1971-1976 Fleetwood Limousines, with frameless hardtop front doors and custom framed rear doors and custom roof, different from "regular" Fleetwood models. |
