http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cadi...emQQcategoryZ33615QQihZ008QQitemZ180137759426 amazingly looks stock.
Cadillac has never made a station wagon. The car in the Ebay auction is a Castilian. It was made in 1975 and 1976 by Tradional Coach Works in Los Angeles as a conversion, similar to making a he**** or a limousine. They were made on Fleetwood ch***is. They are reasonably rare, but again, these were not made by Cadillac. Cadillac will be making their first wagon in 2008. It's a BLS wagon and will not be available here in the US. The BLS has been on sale since 2006(?) and is based off the SAAB 9.3 and is for European sale only.
Swifster is fairly correct, and I say that because it it splitting hairs. Yes they are Cadillac all the way except for the rear, and roof body work. There have been Caddy Wagons built by the Coachbuilders since '67 as best I've been able to find. That means they were not built for Ambulance or He**** service. I think the height of it was around '69-74 with 3 Coachbuilders making them. Mostly rare, and certainly ugly.
Albeit in small numbers for clients like the Broadmoor Hotel, Superior was converting them years before 1967 on a commercial ch***is that never saw he**** or ambulance service. Note forward hinged rear doors. Difficult to think of anything with wrap around back gl*** as ugly.
Cincinnati coachbuilders Eisenhardt and Hess made their Custom View Master wagons in '55 and '56. They used Nomad lift gates in the rear.
The forward hinged doors were used on he****s as well on "end-load" set ups. Meaning the casket was unloaded and loaded from the back. Suicide doors allow for side-loading caskets or gurneys. That hotel wagon was no doubt a special order for the interior trim, but definitely a commercial ambulance ch***is. In my opinion, of course
I was wondering that???? I was just watching The original Gone In 60 Seconds (by H.B.Halicky??) and there was a caddy wagon in there as one of the stolen cars(looked like a 71' or so) it just had a standard B body wagon type rear not raised like a coachmobile. I didnt think they made any but I did a double take on it.
Understood. Was merely pointing that detail out. Superior was, to the best of my knowledge, the only coach builder that produced some vehicles with mixed hinges, ie. each rear side doors hinged opposite each other on the same vehicle, as they were built to the customer's request. The Superior 'holy book' has several examples pictured as such.
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not a He****. it was one like this only Blue. I guess ASC made them at just over $30K in 70' They were a little pricey
i was off a "few" years, i was going from recollection while at work earlier, but it was a wagon, not a friggin he****.
Ohhhhhhh I searched the referance you mentioned and this was all I could find. granted its not the high roof but still a he****. unless Im way off here <CENTER>#29: Do Or Die </CENTER>Favorite of the crowd, terror of the track; this was Do Or Die's second LeMons race. An '82 Cadillac he****, Do Or Die had the most awe-inspiring fishtailing action of any vehicle on the track, batting smaller cars into the walls like a pinball flipper hitting steel balls. It had pretty good V8 punch coming out of turns, thanks to the Caddy 425 under the hood, but it went through tires in a hurry. It was a common sight to spot several CRXs buzzing around like angry bees behind this monster in the turns, unwilling to risk certain obliteration when that rear end came swinging around
You know...I thought maybe it was just some sort of screwy dream I had for the LONGEST time, but I saw a Cadillac station wagon once while traveling with the folks when I was a kid. I remember it distinctly because I was NUTS about Cadillacs, it had the earlier style V hood ornament, instead of the wreath, it was a blue/gray color and had the veneer wood trim...this would have been in the mid-1970s that I saw it, because we still lived in Texas. The only time I ever mentioned it was to my dad, who quickly shot me down with "there never was such a thing as a Caddy Wagon, unless it was a he****." so...I never brought it up again.
Here I am! I absolutely LOVE these things. When I worked as an EMT, I made it a point to take one of the caddy's out as often as I could. Ours were done by Superior, and Miller Meteor. Both companies did conversions for ambulances and he****s. At one time, they were used for both applications. The ride on theses babies were so fantastic, they were requested for transporting patients that needed TLC. While this is a later vintage...no way would they let the 'old' ones as they called them, out on the road with EMT's... here is a pic of one of the rigs I used to work on.
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