My days visiting family in Towson, MD. weren’t exactly fruitful for CCs in the old neighborhood, but this one collection of white cars was worth a shot. Unfortunately, the bright garnet red XTS with a tan vinyl roof that was in the driveway when I first walked by without my camera had left by the time I drove by later. Given that it wasn’t white, it must have been a friend that dropped by.
Those three Cadillacs have more in common than the two oldest models and a new XTS.
There are only two Cadillacs in the picture. 😉
Oooooooooops. That Lincoln is a little too much “ME TOO!” for my taste. 😛
If I squint my eyes just right, I can make my brain mistake that ’67 Continental for a ’69 Sedan Deville. So you get a pass…this time.
😛
Great pic.Is that a Spruce tree in front of that elegant Lincoln? My eyes keep returning to the Lincoln,a great work of art.
I like the Fleetwood and the Continental, the DUB Escalade seems out of place, maybe its the owners grandson?
Thinking the same thing. One of these things is not like the others, and I’m not talking about the Lincoln. And it’s not just that it’s an Escalade, but an EXT…somehow more garish.
Or it could be the owner’s daily driver. The majority of Escalade EXTs I see are driven by middle-aged to older guys.
+1
The Escalade actually has the stock wheels, I thought they looked huge, so I assumed it was aftermarket….
Lovin’ the Lincoln.
+1
The oldest Cadillac seems to have a Maine Antique Automobile plate on it. The Escalade EXT has Maryland’s lovely Our Farms Our Future plate. Not sure how common those are in the Bay Area.
I assume you meant the Lincoln? Yes it does look like the plate is from Maine. The Fleetwood has a Protect the Chesapeake Bay plate. In the state of Maryland on Historic registered cars, you can actually use a set of vintage plates from the model year of the car as long as you do the following:
1. Have a complete set of plates
2. Have those plates checked at the MVA(that they are clear)
3. You keep the MD historic plates issued by the state in your trunk and can show them to any cop that pulls you over and asks about them
Folks:
“…..SWITCHED ALLEGIANCE…”
As in switched from Lincoln to Cadillac. The car on the right with the horizontal tail lights (never a Cadillac feature) is a Lincoln.
Never really cared for Cadillacs so would never care to own one, it would have to be a Lincoln…or at this price point a BMW.
“The car on the right with the horizontal tail lights (never a Cadillac feature)…”
ALMOST never.
And Exhibit B, for your consideration…
Exhibit C
Beautiful Lincoln. I believe it is a ’67, judging from the taillight design and the Continental star located back on the C-pillar instead of the front fender as it was on the ’66. In my humble view, it is just as contemporary looking, perhaps more so, as the Fleetwood next to it. And never mind the overblown Escalade, ugh.
Escalades… ick. Useless vehicles. And I for one am glad the red XTS with the tan mocktop was gone, as my eyes don’t need to be assaulted by such awfulness… Mocktops need to be declared illegal, hell, it should be a felony to put a mocktop on ANYTHING.
“Anything I don’t like should be ILLEGAL!”
Roger:
Here in Florida a favorite “target” for mocktops is the …..wait for it…..Toyota Camry. I’ve seen vinyl roofs on each of the last 3 or 4 generations of Camry. One was this red and tan combo….UGH!!!
Another was white over white….why bother when the top is the same color/invisible?
Two luxury cars and an Avalanche Cimarron. It’s like seeing Ted Baxter sitting with Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor. 🙂
OK, this post almost put coffee all over my laptop! So true.
The Lincoln is a great reminder of what a wonderful job FoMoCo did in updating the 61 for so many years, especially the rear styling. Just beautiful. Whatever they call the company that produces the car today doesn’t matter; instead, they need to look at this picture to understand what really needs to happen to save the nameplate: produce a truly distinctive automobile that creates desire just parked in the driveway.
Tom, that’s a brilliant reference!
Actually there is only one Caddy in that pic (the Fleetwood) the others a Lincoln and a Chevy Avalanche with a Cadillac Crest and loads of bling.
I think the 1990’s Fleetwood was the best looking out of the trio of big sedans. The Roadmaster sedan always seems to look a bit odd with the roof. Now the Roadmaster wagon is hands down the best but the Fleetwood is pretty good also.
The color is Crystal Red, I bought a new one last week 🙂
So how do you know the owner is white? What’s that…oh, the CARS are white. Never mind.
(Just bustin’ some chops, Paul.)
Sad to say perhaps, but given the location of that house in Towson, I can say with a very high degree of certainty that the owner is white. Especially since I’ve seen the Lincoln and Fleetwood here for a couple of decades now.
Why is that sad….?
Because I like some colors other than just white in my life.
That Toro snow blower is intriguing. Mine is 22 years old and still running like top. It needs a new spark plug every 4 to 5 years and that’s it.
Take away the visitor and the caption could read something like
“Stuart and I love our Continental, but we had to buy a smaller car for trips into the city, so we picked up this little Cadillac”
Continental, Fleetwood, Escalade – I just see three high end cars with real names.