Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin:
00:17:08 Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2007-02-19 00:41 |
mid to late 80's Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham |
◊ 2007-02-19 03:33 |
Actually, I'm thinking early-1990's. Cadillacs didn't become so aerodynamic until around 1993. |
◊ 2007-02-19 03:57 |
It has one piece composite headlights, Was'nt 1990 the 1st year for those? |
◊ 2007-02-28 03:45 |
Yeah, 1990-1992. That poor car lol. |
◊ 2009-09-09 22:32 |
1990-1992 Cadillac Brougham (this car was renamned to only Brougham from 1987 and on) so delete Fleetwood from its classification. |
◊ 2009-09-09 22:35 |
1990 was the 1st year for that plastic bumper. Those are one of the last real Caddy's, IMO. |
◊ 2009-09-09 23:02 |
I agree! Last of the real caddys |
◊ 2009-09-09 23:06 |
Yes. The Cadillac models of today don't hold a candle to the pre-90's models in my opinion. Of course, I'm sure folks 20 years from now (when there might not be any more American cars) will look upon now as the good old days! -- Last edit: 2009-09-09 23:06:57 |
◊ 2009-09-09 23:13 |
Yeah, they'll be thinking 'man, 3 bucks for a gallon of gas, if only we had it that lucky now!'. Screw the price of gas. Nothing will make me hate cars that size. |
◊ 2009-09-09 23:17 |
Same here. (I have a 1985 Ford Crown Vic I wouldn't part with for anything!) |
◊ 2009-09-09 23:28 |
I actually looked at an '85 Crown Vic for sale, back in my car shopping days. It was at a local Ford dealership back in 2002. Excellent condition with low miles. $5000 firm, they wanted. If I had the money I would of bought that thing. Cars like that, are worth it. I looked at a '90 Crown Vic too, which I test drove and wanted to buy (only 800 bucks...drove fine). But my father said that we all need FWD to get up our stupid drive way in the winter months...and my mother just hates big cars and didn't want one taking up all the space. edit: I remember looking at one of these Broughams too. An '89, can't remember the price... Somebody had beat the hell out of it though! -- Last edit: 2009-09-09 23:32:22 |
◊ 2009-09-09 23:42 |
On gas prices. Here in sweden we pay $6.50/gallon. And still prices have gone down down 40 % since last year. In other countries in Europe the gas is even more expensive. The norwegians and danes come to Sweden to fill their cars up at, what they consider, bargain prices. |
◊ 2009-09-10 00:18 |
Wow. When I was a child back in the '60's, gas here was typically 30 to 34 cents per gallon! -- Last edit: 2009-09-10 00:56:12 |
◊ 2009-09-10 02:29 |
You were lucky to grow up in that decade. |
◊ 2009-09-10 02:36 |
Oh yes! True golden age. Every year we looked forward to the new models because there was almost always some change from the prior year so that we could date the cars. And the American car was king! About 90% of the cars on the road were built here. My uncle was a Studebaker dealer from 1952 to 1966, then switched to English Ford and Land Rover before moving over to AMC prior to their absorbtion by Chrysler, after which he handled the Jeep line. I can remember feeling sad in his showroom in 1966 after being told the Studebakers there were the last ones. (I still own my grandfather's '57 Commander) -- Last edit: 2009-09-10 02:36:33 |
◊ 2009-09-10 02:48 |
I have an original 1966 Studebaker ad, cut out of a "Life" magazine...or it might of been "Look". Forget which, but the ad alone is worth quite a bit of cash seen as that's the last year they were made. |
◊ 2009-09-10 17:54 |
I collected American car sales literature from 1976 into the early '90's. It was an annual pilgramage of mine every fall! |
◊ 2009-09-10 18:10 |
I've been collecting Ads since 1997, when I was 13, hah. My 7th grade Art teacher had a whole bunch of old 60's magazines that she just used as scrap paper. So I just took a bunch of them home each time after going to her class. |
◊ 2009-09-10 18:26 |
I saved a number of magazine ads too, but mainly auto dealership brochures. |
◊ 2009-09-10 19:30 |
I've got some of them too, but none worth while. Back in the mid 90's, I had a neighbor who worked at a Chrysler plant, and he used to give me brochures of all the new models, whenever I was at his house playing with his kids. I remember him and his kids were for some reason, obsessed with the Plymouth Neon, which was just coming out at the time. I was more into magazine ads though. The oldest one I have, is a 1946 IHC truck ad cut out of "Life" magazine. I also printed out a bunch from that Period Pictures site. That's probably the best reference site I've found so far. |
◊ 2009-09-10 19:59 |
That's good, DT. I have mine all filed away first by year, then company, then make and last, model. Began to loose interest as the '90's wore on and the Japanese companies began taking over. Stopped collecting about 1993 or so. |
◊ 2010-12-20 22:10 |
Shows up again in season 2 with its grille removed. -- Last edit: 2010-12-20 23:32:48 (Neon) |