Anyone ever seen a caddy-nomad-wagon? That could have been cool, a '55 Cadillac with a nomad roof for instance...
Note that the black one ID'd as a '53 seems to have earlier '50 taillights without the clear backup lights under the red portion.
Dont worry Milton, I think it is the time differance... And for those at the back of the room, THIS IS THE MISSING ONE. P.
LBJ, that is soooo awesome!! you did a great photoshop on it. Thats all that baby would need done to it and it would be super sweet!! Thanks for sharing that coolness with us!!~Sololobo~
When quoting from sources like the "Cadillac Database", a free auto hobby resource that I have made accessible to one and all, it would be appreciated if a "heads up" were given to the owner of that resource. In this case the Museum and Research Center of the Cadillac & La Salle Club, Inc. and its creator-compiler, Yann Saunders, an expatriate Scotsman from Columbia, SC, who just joined your "family" today. The (new) Cadillac Database<SUP>©</SUP> Dream Cars on Cadillac Chassis 1955 Hess & Eisenhardt (USA) Custom View-Master : At the well-informed suggestion of Professional car enthusiast, the late Bernie De Winter, I moved this series of cars back from the Professional Cars page for 1955 to this, the Dream Cars section. Bill Hess, who designed this wagon in conjunction with the Cadillac Motor Car Division of GM, was a graduate of General Motors Institute of Technology; in the fifties, he was considered one of the most advanced stylists in the industry. Unlike the Skyview tour cars, that used an extended wheelbase (commercial) chassis, these luxury station wagons were built on the Series 62 chassis (129" wheel base) using Series 86 commercial cowl and floor pan. Doors were by Fleetwood. The tail-gate glass was that of the Chevrolet Nomad wagon. Seven were built, each one being different in color and finish from the next; they stood two inches taller than the regular Series 62 Cadillac and each weighed around 5000 lbs. Most View Masters were built for 9 passengers, but a few dedicated 6-passenger cars were made, including the prototype. All had chrome window pillars all round and most had imitation wood side-paneling in Fiberglas as well as three rows of seats (only one was built with two rows of seats; its interior was styled like that years Coupe de Ville). All the glass behind the B-pillars is unique to these cars except for the tailgates. 1955 models featured Chevy Nomad rear liftgate glass while 1956 model used standard Chevrolet-sourced 210 station wagon rear hatches. Buyers could specify any color at all (and not necessarily from the Cadillac paint palette). Options available included the Eldorado engine, cast alloy sabre-spoke wheels, a roof rack and a bulky air-conditioning unit. The first prototype View Master [car #1] didn't have the DiNoc and fiberglass faux wood paneling found on the remaining 11 cars; it was painted Sea Island Green from head to toe. That car and car #5 are owned by Kenni and Wayne Turner of O<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:State w:st="on">hio</st1:State> (photos below); the Turner's have so far found and restored five out of the seven H&E Custom View-Master wagons). Prices ranged from $10,000 and up; car #1 cost over $13,000; this is possibly the one shown in MI 3/57(p.62) or SS 9/92 (p.4) or in SSA89 (p.32). It may be also the fine, restored example that was photographed at the <st1laceName w:st="on">Gilmore</st1laceName> <st1laceType w:st="on">Museum</st1laceType> car meet in June 1993 (The Cadillac LaSalle Experience). Car #5 was first owned by shoe magnate, Harry Karl. Photos McC (p.312), SS 10/96 front cover; article in SS 10/96 (pp.12-13). The interior of car #4 was finished in a blend of red and Cloud Gray leather. Seven more Custom View Masters were built for the 1956 model year, making the grand total 19. Joe Louis is one of the many celebrities known to have owned a Hess & Eisenhardt-built View Master.
The original facory photos of that lovely 1960 wagon are included in the "Cadillac Database", here: www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_txt/Drm60-61.htm. You will see there is no roof rack on the car. I wonder who intalled it, and when? As to the 1959 Cadillac wagon, by Peter Stengel, it too has survived and is currently undergoing a total restoration up north. At this stage, I'm not at liberty to divulge the name of the owner.
This weekend I went to look at a Hess and Eisenhardt built 49 Cadillac Flower car..It is a cut down four-door hearse with the long wheelbase and suicide doors, the rear suicide doors open up into the El Camino like bed for easy side removel of the flower arrangements. they used an original sedan three-piece rear glass in the custom roofline..all the inside of the bed, tonneau cover,door panels, inside tailgate, was done in stainless steel with boat latches and dzus fittings..very nice..$8000
THAT 1960 Cadillac Estate Wagon. Is the best thing AMerica has ever seen!!! I would litterally sell everything i got to own that!!!
http://bringatrailer.com/2008/12/14/1-of-12-1956-cadillac-viewmaster-woodie-wagon/ Here's a link to a woody caddy currently on an auction site
not sure what they have gone for before.. I like wagons.. but I think these may have sold if they looked like the green one on page one of this thread.
One of those wagons is on ebay right now... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...350138911748&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:MOTORS:1123 $40k to open anyone?
I frequented the "Battery Parking Garage", which strattles the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel exit in Manhattan, in the late 70s -early 80s. There was an early 70's Caddy wagon stored there in the in-active part of the garage. It was '70 Caddy bright green. I would see the car every time I used the back exit. I was pretty sure that it was Caddy with a Pontiac roof section and tailgate grafted on. It was nicely done and if it were parked next to a 70 Bonneville wagon they would have looked like twins from the B pillar back except for the Caddy fender/taillights. It looked like it had been there for years.
Back in Pgh, Pa. My next door neighbor had a 55 and a 56. The 56 had 2 4s factory. 55 had 19000 original and the 56 had 21000. He got them cheep, owned one of the largest truck wrecking yards in the country, and he would buy lots of stuff sight unseen. He would buy one or twenty. Bought old busses, 20-30 at a time, and while they were hauling them home he had a crew pulling the power assemblys out, loading them on skids and they went to South America where they would buy all he could get his hands on. The Cadds were in one of those deals. One year we took a dual wheel Uhaul and a long bed Pk Up to the Butler Fair Grounds Annual Parts Arama filled with NOS parts he had aquired down through the years. Fenders, doors,window regulators, 1000s of door handles, widow felts channels, lights,you name it. We dumped the handles on a large card board sheet and we had folks paying $5.00 ea. They were fighting for territorial rights, and sold ever thing. Went back home with and empty trailer, and he gave me $500.00 for my time, back when that was a LOT of money. Boy did I get off the subject. Ice man
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