CC Wordless Outtake: A Tale Of Two Caddies
– Posted on November 8, 2011
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The one in the foreground is priceless. The one in the background is pathetic.
What price badge engineering? The only way you can tell it’s not a Yukon from the side is the Cadillac name on the door.
Gime the DeVille but please sell those silly wheels back to the DUB magazine subscriber who sold them to you.
It needs whitewalls and factory wheel covers. I’d redo it in Nottingham Green Firemist or Adriatic Turquoise, a black vinyl top and white leather. This one could be a Calais since it’s missing the vinyl top, but with all the other stuff done to it, it’s probably a Coupe de Ville, since they made a lot more of them.
“…sell those silly wheels back to the DUB magazine…”
Dan, don’t you mean “rented”?
HA! Now you reminded me of the first “Rent-a-wheel” I saw when living in Detroit, MI in 2000. The guy who stole my 1987 Cutlass from me probably went there first to ditch my Oldsmobile locking wire wheel covers an Firestone 500 rasied white letter tires!
I thought those kind of wheels were always stolen, except in Arab countries where people with money actually want them — gold plated.
ISTR these same exact two vehicles, positioned a bit differently, posted before…
As others have mentioned, the SUV is not a Cadillac — it’s a Chevy Suburban with the “Cadillac” package.
Yes….. the ‘Deville has some sweet lines — but it’s been Chip Fooseified unfortunately 🙁
The paint job would have been so nice if they hadn’t done the automotive equivalent of a combover, putting that dip in the paint job where there clearly is no dip in the sheet metal — just like those guys with eight hairs they grow 14″ long so they can swirl it over the bald spot, or women who shave their eyebrows so they can draw them back on but in the wrong location. It just looks pathetic. Men with shaved heads are sexy, women look better with real eyebrows, and this car would look way nicer without the fake painted-on ’57 Chevy dip in the beltline. Be what you are, dammit!
Now if the dip in the paint line was about a foot back from the front of the car instead of where it is, it would look better, and be reminiscent of a Packard line. But that doesn’t exist on the car either, so a straight line would be best of all.
Usually I don’t like those oversized rims, but they work well on this beastie. I especially like the look of that two-tone paint. A nicely restrained custom, something of an oddity these days…
Bloody monitor must be playing up I see only ONE Caddy the big silver thing, only thing wrong with it are the wanker wheels and bicycle tyres.
Lose the DUBs and that Caddy is perfect. A set of the Moon Disc wheel covers and wide white walls would do the trick.
The other “Caddy”? Meh..
The 1970 Cadillac is about my favorite styling for a full size car in the last 50 years.
No one will remember the one in the background 40 years from now.
I have already forgotten in the time it took to scroll down here.
That vintage Caddy looks nice, but I’m in agreement, while the wheels don’t look too out of place here, they don’t belong none the less, the car looks best more or less stock in this case.
The big white thing in the background, meh.
When I was 17 my two best friends each drove Emerald Green De Villes. The 72 Coupe was Looser, more Chevy like than the 70 Sedan DeVille, Which was like being the captain of the The block long barge, but oh what a comfortible confident driver that 1970 Caddy was. Even in 1977 it ranked as a far superior riding car than the 72 IMO.
I don’t know what to make of that dip in the black paint on the door. Do I like it? I don’t really know. We need that Photoshop kid to erase it for me so I can decide!
My vote is to lose the two-toning altogether – silver or black, I don’t care. Just pick one. Ditto the wheels. Those Caddies were pretty cars, and the 70 is the last one that would tempt me. The ‘Lade would only be interesting if the car in the foreground was a Yaris.
I always liked the 69-70 De Villes, especially the coupes. Amazing how long the trunk and hood are. Stock paint and wheel covers would be so much better.
The Escalade isn’t worthy of a comment, and I’m pretty sure it won’t be in 40 years either.