Featured is a beautiful, elegant 1957 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 Limousine. The nine passenger Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine was elegance on a grand scale and carried to a new level.
Cadillac Series 75
The Cadillac Series 75 was introduced in 1936 alongside the Series 70.The Series 75 was a range of long wheelbase, full size luxury cars. The Cadillac Series 75 was offered exclusively with a V8 engine, and was built in eleven generations: Cadillac’s flagship Series 75 were the only vehicles in America specifically designed and built as limousines. had a long and distinguished history. The model was produced from the 1930’s to the 1980’s. These were luxurious models spanning six decades.
Back in 1957, if you had about $7,300, you could be one of about 1,100 proud owners of a Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine. That obviously was quite a lot of money to pay for a car in 1957. At the time,the model was the largest and most luxurious automobile built by high Cadillac up to that point. A vehicle like this was mostly used by corporate executives and state dignitaries and other Vip’s who had the equivalent of $64,000 in 2021 dollars. The Cadillac Series 75 Limousine was also used extensively by funeral homes. You would be very hard pressed to find a new automobile like the superbly elegant Cadillac Series 75 today for $69,000.
Cadillac’s were completely re-styled for 1957, adopting many of the styling cues and features tested and received enthusiastically by the public in various Cadillac concept cars in the GM Motorama. Featuring rubber-tipped “Dagmar” bumper bullets, jet fighter inspired taillight nacelles, chrome tipped fins and distinctive new side treatments that give the ’57 Cadillac’s enduring character, Cadillac’s 1957 offering was further distinguished by the presence of three separate Eldorado models, the Biarritz convertible, Semodels, the Biarritz coind atopew sist luiminthup