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In 1930, Cadillac rolled out a line of new cars of unsurpassed elegance and craftsmanship that would launch the company into the top tier of luxury carmakers. While competitors produced models with eight or twelve-cylinder engines, Cadillac offered the smooth, powerful performance of a V-16. Over the next 11 years, each of the more than 4000 V-16s was as close to hand-made as a commercial auto manufacturer could come. Their drivers included statesmen, celebrities, businessmen and, sometimes, well-heeled ne'er-do-wells. Many of the cars survived wartime scrap drives, obsolescence, lack of replacement parts, neglect and the elements. This follow-up volume to Cadillac V-16s Lost and Found (2014) documents the individual stories of 67 more of these magnificent machines.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Background
1. One of the Very First
2. Cadillac Odyssey
3. A Swiss Fire Chief's Car
4. A YouTube Star
5. A Roadster Rebuilt from Rust
6. Allan Singer's Limousine
7. The Maharajah's Speedster
8. A Convertible Coupe from the Case Collection
9. Graduation Gift
10. Restaurant Rendezvous
11. A Buffalo Businessman's Convertible Coupe
12. Eleanor
13. In the Little Town of Dumfries
14. A Dressed Up Limousine
15. Poster Girl for a New Car Club
16. A Roadster with the Heart of a Madame X
17. The Groundskeeper
18. Company Car
19. Golf Cart
20. Hawkeye's X's
21. Survivor of the War in the Pacific
22. Jazz-Age Jalopy
23. Mr. Uppercu's Personal Roadster
24. A Performance Coupe
25. Criss Goad's Sedan Cabriolet
26. Dayton Card's Diverted Convertible Coupe
27. Richard Ancerewicz's Car
28. Monumental Mystery
29. The Moir Family's Roadster
30. Repurposed, Relinquished and Rescued
31. Hopalong Cassidy's All-Weather Phaeton?
32. A Cadillac "Woodie" Convertible
33. The London Landaulette
34. Simple Sedan
35. Tragedy on the Test Track
36. Reload, Re-Use, Recycle
37. Old Yeller
38. Blue Boy
Between pages 150 and 151 are 12 color plates containing 24 photographs
39. Papa Tino's Coche
40. An Ex-Pat Returns
41. Roadster Number 73
42. A Custom Coach Fit for a Prince
43. The Fire Wagon
44. A Lucky 1932 Survivor
45. Hubert Dalton's Limousine Brougham
46. A Sleek 1932 Convertible Coupe
47. Model for a Die-Cast Model
48. A Special Sedan for an Opera Singer
49. Executive Privilege
50. An Oil Man's Family Car
51. A Playboy's Convertible Victoria
52. He Drove a Cadillac V-16
53. Vice Presidential Limousine
54. A Tale of Two Cars
55. New Life Out of the Ashes
56. Realizing What Never Was
57. The Pirate
58. A Parts Car Too Good to Use
59. The Ambassador's Carriage
60. The Fixer's Formal Limousine
61. A Formal Town Sedan
62. Mr. Wrigley's Limousine
63. For the Governor of Texas
64. A Thoroughbred for a Breeder of Champions
65. Lazarus
66. The Roebling Cadillac
67. The Derham Coupe
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