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2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
The Enclave is built in Lansing. I know, it should be an Oldsmobile!
I know the 2002-on Thunderbird was based on it.
That was a good styling job IMHO, walking the fine line between 'retro' and 'contemporary'. I loved them with the two-tone interior.
I remember tight headroom with the hardtop, but it looked great with it IMHO. Just different from everything else.
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Take a look at just about any F150. I guess Buick thought it would help their sales.
Regarding names vs alpha-numerics, the auto industry appears to employ a lot of sycophants and copycats, and everyone still wants to be the Germans.
Trucks look ridiculous, IMHO, with their enormous nameplate-over-a-nameplate high on the front fenders, or doors (3500HDSILVERADOHIGHCOUNTRYDIESEL), etc. etc.
'Avenir' is a single, flowing script on the driver's door. I'm hard-pressed to think of anything else like that now.
If you keep backtracking, you'll fall off a cliff.
The 2000 was so bad that it almost got lemon-lawed. I don't know what the ultimate arrangement was that he made, but he got a killer deal on a 2001 LS with the V8. However, his trust in Lincoln was shot, and his trust in keeping a car high miles. He started leasing Acura TLs after that, and essentially got himself into an eternal car payment. I lost track with him years ago, but I imagine he'd be leasing TLXes by now.
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
We had it in for service yesterday--oil change, tire rotation, and wife complained that when first moving, she could hear a brake squeak, until about 10 mph. I heard it the next day, but in rain it didn't do it. It was absolutely from the rears. I googled that and the first thing that came up was a GM TSB about that exact issue, and the fix was the dealer would replace, for free, the rear brake pads.
Anyway, we go to pick up the car, and I had paid for the oil change ($56 including tax for full-synthetic; not bad) on the phone. We pull in and there is a white Equinox on the end of the row. It had no plates. Next vehicle over, white Equinox, Lorain Co. plates--not ours, either. Ours was about six cars down. In probably eight cars, three were white '18-20 Equinoxes with the same wheels. Sigh.
Made me miss the '70's and even early '80's domestics, with slew of colors, optional trim, and wheel choices that nearly-guaranteed you never saw an exact duplicate of your car.
I would draw the line, however, at this 1976 Dodge Charger SE interior, seen on Facebook this morning! To be fair, when I was young, I drove a new '76 or '77 Monza 2+2 for a test drive, which was white with a similar interior but base-colors white, red, and blue.
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2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
In 1971, the Royal popped up as a cheaper trim level within the Newport, while "Newport Custom" was still listed as a separate model. For '72, they broke it out into "Newport Royal" for the cheaper version, "Newport Custom" for the nicer. In '73, it was back to Newport/Newport Custom. And in '77, they went to simply "Newport".
It's amazing how much prices went up in that timeframe. In 1965, you could still get a Newport for as low as $3,009. That was for the 4W 4-door pillared sedan. The 6W was $3,146, only 3 dollars cheaper than the 4-door hardtop! But, by '71, the cheapest Newport was $4,078, for the Royal 4-door sedan. The "regular" 4-door was $4190 and the Newport Custom was $4319.
For comparison, a '65 LeSabre started at $2948, and was up to $3992 for '71. I always think of the 70's (and even there I think it's 73+) as being a time of serious inflation, but that '65-71 jump is pretty serious, too! However, I wonder how much of that is because of more standard equipment?
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1957 Firesweep: $2777
1958 Firesweep: $2819 (this year it got the 280 hp 350-2bbl Wedge standard, up from the 245 hp 325-2bbl poly-head)
1959 Firesweep: $2904 (upgraded to a 295 hp 361-2bbl Wedge)
1960 Fireflite: $3017 (even though they called it "Fireflite", it was downgraded to the entry model in a name shuffle. Still had the 361-2bbl
1961 Newport: $2964 (265 hp 361-2bbl standard, de-tuned to run on lower octane.)
1962 Newport: $2964
1963 Newport: $2964
1964 Newport: $2901
1965 Newport: $3009 (all-new, larger body. Also upgraded to 270 hp 383-2bbl)
1966 Newport: $3052
1967 Newport: $3159
1968 Newport: $3306 (now we're seeing a bit of inflation creep. Engine up to a 290 hp 383-2bbl)
1969 Newport: $3414
1970 Newport: $3514
1971 Newport: $4078 (Royal 4-door sedan; regular Newport was $4190. Engine downgraded to a 255 hp 360-2bbl; first use of the LA smallblock in a Chrysler. According to automobile-catalog, this was the last year a manual shift was standard)
1972 Newport: $4051 (Royal, Newport Custom was $4435. Royal used a 175 hp gross 360-2bbl, Custom got a 190 hp 400-2bbl, first year for standard automatic, according to automobile catalog)
1973 Newport: $4181 (185 hp 400-2bbl standard, no more smallblocks)
1974 Newport: $4677
1975 Newport: $4854 (400-2bbl down to 175 hp)
1976 Newport: $4993 (back to a 360-2bbl, with 170-175 hp)
1977 Newport: $5280 (190 hp 400-4bbl standard, 360 a credit option)
1978 Newport $5888 (4-door hardtop, the sedan was dropped. In '77 the 4-door hardtop had been about $150 more than the sedan. 190 hp 400 still standard)
1979 Newport: $6405 (first year for the R-body. 110 hp 225 slant six 2-bbl standard. 318 was a $315 option)
1980 Newport: $7247/$7343 (90 hp 225-1bbl / 120 hp 318 2-bbl)
1981 Newport: $7805/$7869 (85 hp 225-1bbl / 130 hp 318-2bbl)
I was surprised to see that it was 1972, and not 1971, that an automatic was made standard on the Newport. I figured it was worked in for '71, and that was part of what accounted for that big jump in price. Assuming automobile-catalogue is correct, that is...
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Bad match between the car and rear bumper fillers, which are probably replacement as is typical.
This car is overpriced as an opening bid IMHO, but still, I like it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1979-Cadillac-Fleetwood/264890263083?hash=item3dacb0a62b:g:XFMAAOSwA1tfbdtD
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Nix that Fleetwood; I'd much-rather have this Eldo!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1970-Cadillac-Eldorado/264857980698?hash=item3daac40f1a:g:OAcAAOSwH-xe-Sqm
Love the green with white trim, and the totally flat floor impresses me as much now as it did then.
The 'lesser' divisions had a green rather like this, in '72 and '73. My Dad and I both liked a '72 Chevelle coupe in this color at our local dealer. My mother did not drive, and always said she didn't care if Dad bought a car that was "sky blue pink". However, she did say "I never say anything about cars, you know that, but I hate that green. It looks like it was painted with a brush", LOL.
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Me too. I used to not like it. I like it a lot now.
It looks like a color that a smaller, sportier, more youthful car would wear well. And pickup trucks seem to be able to get away with just about any color. But it seems like it would be out of place on a bigger, more formal car. Also, it seems like one of those colors that really changes with the light, so in some pictures I like it, others, not so much. Of course, some of that can also be photo quality, and how good of a repaint the car was.
I feel the same way about that "Nottingham Green" on the Eldorado. In some shots it looks good, but in others, it just looks too bright, like a crayon. And I'm normally a sucker for green! I had to laugh at your "sky blue pink" comment, Uplander...hadn't heard that phrase in years, but as a kid, I can recall my Grandmom, and Mom saying it...usually in sarcasm about something or other. So thanks, that took me back!
Oh, also, my apologies...I somehow missed your post about Carlisle. Yeah, I was there on Saturday. Too bad Hershey has been canceled. I was looking forward to going. For me, that usually signals the end of car show season.
In '72, on Chevys, you could not get it on the full-size cars, but you could in '73. I remember it on Novas, Chevelles, Camaros, and Monte Carlos in '72, and the same with the addition of full-sizes in '73.
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
I'm picturing something older with a tapered B-pillar as well though, but just can't think of what it is.
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
I'm picturing something older with a tapered B-pillar as well though, but just can't think of what it is.
Quick Google didn't reveal it, but for some reason, I'm thinking it was a product of Auburn, Cord, or Duesenberg.
The original Cadillac Sixty Special, designed by a young Bill Mitchell, had a B-pillar which I think the stylists were thinking about when they did the '71 Fleetwood Sixty-Special Brougham (and later GM Colonnade four-doors), but it wasn't tapered.
I know Pontiac called it a "Firebird", but c'mon, let's not take that TOO literally!
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