Badillac

Quick look at the upcoming awesome cars I'm going to post galleries about in the next couple weeks

Good advertising phrase Cadillac is now using

It's one thing to hug corners, It's another to leave them weak in the knees

Found in the Nov 2011 Automobile magazine.

Slogans of Cadillac advertisements

"You Can Kill a Horse but not a Cadillac (1905)"
"Every Cadillac is a Dewar Trophy" (1911)
"Cadillac Shows the World ...how truly magnificent a motor car can be!" (1937)
"It's a "Who's Who" of the Highway!" (1952)
"More Eloquent Than Words!" (1952)
"Those who want the finest want - the Standard of the World!" (1953)
"Cadillac car is one of the soundest investments in the automotive world!" (1953)
"They'll Take The Cadillac Tonight!" (1955)
"It Gives a Man a New Outlook... Cadillac" (1957)
"Finest Expression of Motordom's Highest Ideal!" (1957)
"Magnificent Beyond All Expectations! - Cadillac" (1957)
"A New Realm of Motoring Majesty! - The 1959 Cadillac"
"Cadillac - a new measure of automotive supremacy." (1959)
"Cadillac ... the new measurement of greatness" (1959)
"Cadillac ... universal symbol of excellence" (1959)
"Cadillac ...World's Best Synonym for Quality!" (1959)
found on http://www.car-nection.com/ccof/caddy5.htm

Pala Casino hosted a car show, 4th floor of the parking garage, sounds strange, but it's a beautiful background for photos

 If you like this low Cadillac, check out Coddington customized Cadzilla that ZZ Top lead singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons commissioned http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/cadzilla.html

 if you like this metalwork, the scroll design, check out the chassis and suspension of the lowrider in the SEMA car show http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/11/majestics-cc-of-compton-have-done.html

Nice double flamejob on the radiator shield and the firewall

1931 Cadillac tow truck belonging to an autobody, welding, and tow company who worked custom body magic to make truck from a sedan

that is the nicest tow truck we are likely to see all year, found with the information about the custom body mods at David's terrific Old Motor http://theoldmotor.com/?p=19664

It immediately reminded me of the Packard car made into a tow truck http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/tow-trucks-were-sometimes-made-from-big.html

1885 to 1929 interesting cars

 1885 horseless carriages in Russia

 1893 Haynes with E. Haynes in both photos. It was the first successful automobile in America

 1901 Franklin

 1902 Cadillac

 1904 Caddilac

 1907 Isotta Fraschini (really shiny paint)

 1908 Ford, the first model T

 1916 Studebaker landaulet roadster (I've got thought that a roadster can't be a landaulet, and vice versa)

 1925 Lincoln club roadster with body by LeBaron

 1925 Locomobile

1929 Studebaker with Neysa McMein (great first name) she was a designer at Studebaker

Found digging through the photos at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

The 1912 Official Handbook of Automobiles, (wow, stats and views of brasss era cars still licensed under the Selden patent)

the above delivery wagon is cool, but check out the Locomobile Cup Racer, and the price ... $18,000

the Peerless on the right hand side below... if you read the stat sheet, you might be as amused as I am that the body is known as the "King of Belgium"

the Selden Patent issue:

The above tag has a bit of historical perspective... the Selden company patented the automobile. He collected on every car made... 0.75%

Selden was a patent attorney. His dad was a judge, and a prominent Republican attorney most noted for defending Susan B Anthony.

Yeah, it obviously didn't stand up very long, but for a time, they had the patent on the automobile, and if you wanted to sell a car in America, you either paid a licensing fee or fought them in court.

Henry Ford fought them in court and won... he was obviously better prepared to make a success and a fortune that he'd share with the US Govt by way of taxes, so the right people were persuaded to take the patent of the automobile, and make it go away... the reason given was that the Ford and other cars were using an engine based on a different engine than Selden had patented.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/05/spooky-no-traction-sliding-on-ice-as.html  

see the whole book page by page at http://www.archive.org/stream/officialhandboo04assogoog#page/n12/mode/2up which is just one of 10s of thousands of online books at http://www.archive.org/