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1972 Cadillac Deville - Amazing Pristine One-owner Original on 2040-cars

Year:1972 Mileage:43632
Location:

Evansville, Indiana, United States

Evansville, Indiana, United States

Amazingly pristine and original one-owner car.  Popular '72 Willow & Jade color combination.  100% original factory paint, interior, drivetrain, everything.  No body work, sprayed panels, or restoration ever.  Babied by extremely particular owner, then kept in garage under cover, untouched, by his son and grandson after he passed away in the 80s.  Kept as a preserved memory of the owner who loved and cared for this car. Engine and underneath never sprayed or detailed other than gentle cleaning. Post-storage maintenance items have been professionally completed…fuel tank cleaned, carb cleaned, gas lines blown out, shocks replaced, water pump replaced, filters and sparks replaced.  Tires were replaced once with correct BF Goodrich radials.  Have only 8k miles on them. Owner recorded all maintenance details meticulously in the owners manual. Runs and drives beautifully, just like new.  472 ci engine has full power in 1972, prior to emissions regs throttling power. Everything works.  Includes all records. Kept in climate controlled garage.  Selling by private owner only due to space constraints.  No dealer has ever had this car other than when new. This is an incredible car for the Cadillac enthusiast who appreciates an impeccably kept original. Better condition than many cars with 5-10k miles. Clear title. Serious buyers can submit questions or call Craig at 408-508-8221.  I am a 20+ year member of the Cadillac LaSalle Club. For those who know these cars, an untouched original like this does not come along very often. Car location is my climate controlled garage in Evansville, IN.    



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Junkyard Gem: 1997 Cadillac Catera

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GM's Cadillac Division was having a tough time in the early 1990s, with an onslaught of Lexuses and Infinitis pouring across the Pacific to steal their younger customers while high-end German manufacturers picked off their older customers. Flying an S-Class-priced model between assembly lines in Turin and Hamtramck hadn't worked out, so why not look to the European outposts of the far-flung GM Empire for the next Cadillac? That's how the Catera was born, and I have found a rare first-year example in a North Carolina car graveyard. Across the Atlantic, GM's Opel and Vauxhall were doing good business with prosperous European car buyers by selling them the sleek rear-wheel-drive Omega B (whose platform also lived beneath the Holden VT Commodore in Australia). Here was a genuine German design that competed with success against BMW and Audi on their home turf! So, the Omega B was Americanized and renamed the Catera. Opel wasn't a completely unknown brand to Americans at the time, since its cars were sold here with their own badging through Buick dealerships from the middle 1950s through the late 1970s (for a much shorter period, American Pontiac dealers attempted to sell Vauxhalls). Even after that, plenty of Opel DNA showed up in the products of U.S.-market GM divisions. The Catera was by far the most affordable Cadillac for 1997, with an MSRP starting at $29,995 (about $59,113 in 2024 dollars). Being a genuine German car, it looked much more convincingly European than the DeVille ($36,995), Eldorado ($37,995) and Seville ($39,995). Inspired by the ducks on the Cadillac emblem (they were really supposed to be martlets, mythical birds with no feet and occasionally lacking beaks), Cadillac's marketers went after youthful car shoppers with a whimsical animated duck named Ziggy. For the 21st century, the birds were removed from the Cadillac emblem in order to attract California buyers under 45 years of age. As we all know, the Catera flopped hard in the marketplace. What sold well in Europe turned out not to translate so well in in North America, especially when bearing the badges of such a historically prestigious brand. The Catera's engine was a 54-degree 3.0-liter V6 rated at 200 horsepower and 192 pound-feet. Just as had been the case with its predecessor, the Allante, no manual transmission was available.

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The deaths of the Ford Crown Victoria and the Lincoln Town Car have meant overhauls of three high-profile American fleets: police, taxi and livery car. Just as police fleets are more open to considering other options and a Nissan van is the new face of the NYC taxi, livery car companies are looking at replacements for the Town Car beyond The Blue Oval. Ford, via Lincoln, has made an MKT Town Car (pictured), but an article in the Detroit News claims "it has failed to win over most of the big limousine companies." The upstarts trying to move in include livery and limo editions of the Cadillac XTS, and livery specifications of the Toyota Avalon and Chrysler 300.
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"Our strategic plan is a pathway to earn customers for life and create significant shareholder value in the process." - Mary Barra
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