Caddy pickup????

What the heck is this??





Rare stock, custom.....????

BTW it's for sale on craigs list:

http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/car/378860581.html

Johnny

 

looks like a flower car too me.

 

I'd say a 4-door cut up and put back together...sorta.

Probably someones aborted project...

 

i think dv8 is the closer guess flower cars didnt have that roof line looks like a cut job to me

 

yea your right, i blew the pic up, and you can see where the back door is welded shut.

 

May it "rust in peace".

 

Well in those pics,i'd say "landfill,rusting in piece".

 

Yard art

 

When I was a kid here in NY, all the funeral parlors had a Caddy/El Camino looking thing that carried all the flowers. The last one I saw was a 1974. A buddy of mine is rebuilding that one now.

 

A Tiny Tim mobile.

 

It's the grandfather of this one...

 

funeral parlor here had a 4 door flower car, matched its hearse and family limos.Lay out was sort of like the corvair pick ups with doors on both sides of the truck bed.They could unload from both sides and the rear.Cadillac catered to the customer back then you could buy whatever you could pay for.I'm not trying to sat this IS a flower car but at least 1 4 door car did exist so I would think more did

 

That's either a 55 or 56 Flower car...The 55 had a chrome vertical strip where what looks to be a second door line is..But from that picture,it looks to be a two door,but it is a flower car..

 

By the way,the actual body lines depended on the coach builder..So not all bodies on these were the same..

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1954...oryZ6152QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

On the bay right now!
CHAZ

 

Metal work on flower cars was terrible!! They were not a hearse or a four door so most of the time they were cobbled together.

I would love to have a good one but most of the ones I have seen weren't in much better shape than that one.

 

I've seen worse looking messes fixed up. It would make a cool shop truck.

Tom

 

I will say it if nobody else is going to.............drag that sumbitch outa there and save its life.

 

That thing is a turd. I haven't seen a flower car that looked that stupid. It looks like a home made truck. Take the front clip and leave the rest.

 

I don't know what the others are thinking, that thing is KOOL !
the lines are great ! Buy it and fix it! One cool shop truck !!

 

There's a pair of '58 Cads near my house, one is a hearse and the other is a flower car. The flower car is in primer, so it's someone's project.. but it's been sitting there for years.

 

I see potential, that C-pillar and roof line just needs some work.

 

You never saw the 59' that I'm trying to sell for Sled,did you??

 

That's a '56 Caddy...flower car if anything...could be saved.

R-

 

Nope,, the ones I looked at were very wavy, one was 65, the other 2 were 69ers. The 65 and one of the 69s were fixable but the coachwork body parts were ill fitted and caked with filler.

 

Is that caddy around Butler?

 

Not done by a commercial body builder. Most flower cars were built on 86 series chassis, this one is a 62 4 door sedan.

 

i know the car and the salvage yard it's in. it was a 4-dr cut down. used to be a body shops shop truck. had a ford wagon tailgate. was a nice truck in its day. did run a few years ago.

 

That looks alot my dads old car. It was a pickup bed dropped into the car.

 

I looked at it on Craigslist & here. It all comes back to the roof line, the End View just doesn't look finished.

There should be a coach builder ID or something on it.

I guess if someone wanted to build that type of car, and had the fab know how?

If I remember right the roof was rounder on a Flower car. Pretty sure it was a Caddy. It's been a while.

Just went through the posts again, clicked on hoof's post that ebay Caddy flower car is what I'm talking about. Other then that high dome, it's to extreme. Looks like the Golden Arches.

What I remember is a gentle curve to the roof line.. The top rail was chrome or stainless. They were clean and had class, at least in Chicago