This Caddy commercial features the Coupe DeVille, Eldorado, Eldorado Convertible and the very expensive Fleetwood Talisman. The fleetwood Taliisman cost over 10 grand in 1974 dollars. Over 242,000 Cadillacs would be produced in 1974.
@@Mikejones-vy9dx that's why owning a Cadillac was a status symbol. Now any turdbag who can hold a pen can buy one and put subwoofers and 22 inch wheels on it.
Back in the day there wasn't a car out there that could beat a "Caddy" ride..big, luxurious American made "land yachts"..nowadays Cadillac wants to be more of a German sports car(BMW, Audi, Mercedes etc.) I miss those big beautiful cars..👍🇺🇸
Fleetwood Brougham D'Elegeance interior. I had it in my '78. You could run over an entire junkyard and never feel a thing. There are times I do miss that car. But it sure liked the gas pump! At 3 bucks a gallon I don't miss THAT!
Even Rolls-Royce looked to Cadillac for inspiration back in those days. I'd like to see Cadillac return to the concept. Large, beautiful, immensely comfortable, real luxury...and not pretending to be a performance vehicle.
@@inkyguy A couple of months ago I had to drive a 2022 BMW and it seriously felt like driving a Toyota. The interior was the kind of cheap and plasticky type you would expect in a Chevy. Nothing like the 2001 5 series I learned to drive stick with when I was a teenager, and certainly nothing like a Bavaria.
Oh! My 1973 Eldorado is outdated! The 1974 has the new, sleek command center instrument cluster with fuel gauge and warning lamps just below the windshield for notice at a glance! With such outstanding trade-in value perhaps I should consider moving up one year.
@Stormy D. I had an '05 Park Avenue with a factory hood ornament (one of the last American cars to have one). They do add class but like so many of the nice styling features of the great landyachts they just don't work that well on the modern bubbles they make now. On some of the last traditional cars like the LeSabre, DTS, and Grand Marquis they would have looked nice and probably should have been installed. It was nice Lincoln chose to bring them back in 2003 on the Town Car after a 5 year absence and I believe they were the last American cars to have them in 2011.
I hate to say it, but Mercedes still does a hood ornament. Then again, in the modern day, Mercedes has stayed more true to its roots than Cadillac and we can see the results.
Wow, glad to have found this. My mom and a dad had a 74 cdv. Had the cast metal hood ornament, just like in this commercial, which I think was a higher trim line. Great memories.
I used to live in Houston TX from 2018 to 2021, hardly seen any of these. I love these american big cars and growing up in italy i didn't have a chance to know these vehicles very well.
@@denalisiomontpellier4064 they really were something! Now I know they were filled with plastic “wood”, etc. But they were still great. I hope you got to see a lot of them during your time in Tx!
The voice over is Hugh Copland, who did the Cadillac commercials near fifteen years. On the Detroit market, known as "the voice of Cadillac," he did many other voice overs and on screen commercials.
This was my 1st car and my 1st Cadillac ..then I bought a 1980 Fleetwood Brougham D'elegance then a 1985 Sedan Deville (sucked) then 1995 Seville SLS then a 1996 Fleetwood Brougham then a 1998 Deville then a 2001 Deville then I leased a 2002 Deville then I bought a 2005 XLR convertible then a 2009 CTS (sucked) then a 2011 DTS (that I still own...I can honestly say that the '74 Fleetwood Tailsman was my FAVORITE...should've NEVER gotten rid of it...
@@slutyslutterson6686 well... I hope I ain't late to the party... The Talisman option in 74, was four bucket seats and two consoles, one front and one in back. They had fancy writing tablets and pen sets in them. The "cheaper" Talisman option, was something like $1800 and it was upholstered in what Cadillac called Medici Cloth (which, even when new, looked like worn out velvet to me)... And the 'spensive Talisman option was upholstered in leather and cost something like $2,400... Either way, THAT was "eff you money" back then.... Especially for a 20 foot long car that only sat 4 people! In 75 and 76, Cadillac only offered the bucket seats in front... Anyhow, they didn't sell too many of these in any year they were offered. An old Caddy that was REALLY KOOL, was the 57-58 Eldorado Brougham... About the wildest thing on the road back then. They were 4 door cars, with reverse-opening (suicide) rear doors... Stainless steel roofs, boomerang-shaped seats, a cocktail cabinet built into the dashboard... Everything someone could ever need! Check em out. But all of the old Cadillacs sure were kool, huh?😄
@@slutyslutterson6686 It had a bit more plush in its seats, a console with a writing tablet inside, in most cases a personalized plaque with your name engraved on it, and a few more features that those who could afford it could have. But it was an extremely limited edition! And a LOT of Pizazz:) Pizzaz still is workable as currency, even in 2023 and beyond.
My grandfather bought one of these cars brand new we paid 1000 bucks for it he says one the best cars ever drove deserve better than that crap they build nowadays with a four-cylinder engines
These 70s models were actually some of the first cars to run well over 100,000 miles. My 1977 has 128 k and still doesn’t use any oil or get dirty between oil changes.
amazing, I wish I could buy a new corvette C8 e-ray today and make your same statement in 46 years. Cars today are more like sprinters and less like marathoners.
@@denalisiomontpellier4064 Yes that is very true, and many thanks! Engines can get more miles these days due to refinement in manufacturing, but where they usually get us is in electronics. The systems are extremely complex and very difficult to repair, not to mention expensive! And they only make replacement modules, etc. for a few years! Maybe with a Corvette or something else with a large following you may have better luck getting aftermarket replacement parts being available.
it disappeared when In the 80's people began to find more interest in the imports Becuase imports had great gas mileage but weren't safe and could break easily, these cars had quality but nowadays cadillac makes some of the most overrated cars that want to cash on the popularity of bmws
@@thomprobus777 Yeah, but the 450 SEL can fit in the trunk of a 75 Fleetwood and still leave room for a few dead bodies, so for proper old school luxury, you can keep the tiny German cars.
@ Apparently Trump failed as he's out of office in a few weeks and Cadillac has gotten even worse since he took office. Hell, they don't even make midsized sedans anymore, let alone the luxobarges of yore.
YES 🎉! When Cadillac WAS The Standard of the WORLD! Late brother once had 68 Series 75 . I had 89 RWD FLEETWOOD Brougham deElegance 🏆 and 93 RWD Brougham, which was already less in quality and luxury. Have since gone to Town Cars, recently referred to in an article as American ROLLS-ROYCE! Even those are gone now. Notice how this add is done. SO different from today's commercials of SUVS speeding through mud and over dangerous terrain! 🤔 What ever happened to CLASS? Like these Cadillacs, LONG GONE! 😎
Music created by Stephen Karmin, he's really old but alive still...did the music for Pontiac and Chrysler and many other big campaigns like, "I love New York" theme song. Pontiac, it was the 'Break Away" them and Chrysler, "Monents" also known as "your next car"
So I use to own a Andis cooper Talisman, 1974. Unfortunately, the body rusted faster than i could make repairs. So I kept the interior for my next project . 1965 98 Oldsmobile. The seats fit nicely inside!
Do you younger people really think your cars are better than these? Really? These cars had nice big roomy interiors. You could stretch out on a long trip. You could yawn with both arms outstretched and not touch the side windows with your elbows. You could float down the highway with no harshness because they had full frames with rubber insulators. There was no verticle movement at the corners so, there was no jerkiness that is present in ALL of the newer cars. The air conditioners were not temperature sensitive so, you could literally keep copious amounts of ice-cold air coming inside until your teeth chattered or until the compressor froze. You could seat 6 adults with room in the trunk for 6 full-size suitcases. Handling? People drove these cars differently. They slowed down for the corners and railroad crossings and intersection humps. Life isn't all about going around corners at 90 MPH. Who does that in reality? Who would do that with their family in the car? I have well over 10,000 car accidents recorded from right here on RU-vid. I have looked at EVERY single car accident involving older Buicks, Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles, Lincolns, and Mercurys. In EVERY SINGLE CASE, there was no evidence, let alone proof, that the suspension was in any way a factor in the accident. NOT ONE! YET, I did notice that many of the newer cars with firm suspensions were involved in high-speed accidents because the firmer suspension encouraged high-speed driving that caused the crash. While it is true that there are fewer traffic deaths now because of airbags, crash crumple zones, and mandatory seat belt laws, high-speed accidents are on the rise. You now have a situation where you either live or die in an accident at these speeds. So, who benefits? It has been known for a long time that in Germany the accident rate is 1% lower than ours in the States BUT, their fatality rate is 1% HIGHER. So, who wins? The insurance companies. It is cheaper to bury someone than to keep them hospitalized for weeks or even months. You are only fooling yourself into thinking you have a better car now.
I had a '78 Fleetwood Brougham. For driving COMFORT there was nothing better. It actually handled better than it had any right to as well. And it was RELIABLE, with the exception of the 70s Delco electronics that weren't made to last. It had its issues as it got older. It was easy to work on, parts were cheap, and it'd always, ALWAYS get you home if it had air in the tires and gas in the tank and the battery wasn't dead. I miss that car. But not its gas bill, not at 3 bucks a gallon.
Yes, I remember oh so fondly the GM built crap of the 70's! You forget what it was like to start them in the cold? Cranking and cranking? Remember STALLING? Remember rust forming in 2 years that ate through the fenders? I'll take new cars thank you.
@@viciouspoodle5543 It was called "planned obsolescence". Japan did it and so did the Germans. Car manufacturers wouldn't have survived if their cars lasted forever. It was common for Swedish cars to go 500,000 miles or more. Look at what happened to them. Sure, the newer cars don't rust as fast. The hard interior plastics last longer than the softer plastics. You pay twice as much though for them because of it. More people are out of work because of it too. Today's cars ride like school buses. The seats are hard as rocks. The tires are hard as concrete. So, you pay twice as much for a car that is uncomfortable just to be agonized by it a bit longer. If you are happy with that, so be it. I'm not.
I saw one of these Cadillac Talsmen in the Junk Yard. I told the owner of the yard to put up on E-Bay or contact the Cadillac Car Club. The car would start up.The seats were like a time capsule. in two day, he crush it.
The '73s and '74s were unusual in that they had tons of fake wood rosettes on their dashboards. The '75s and '76s removed them and looked cleaner as a result. It was a truly different time.
I have two Cadillacs. One is a 2005 Cadillac dhs pretty big 17 feet long. Then I got a stretched 1970 Cadillac... Damn yacht won't fit in my garage 21 feet long
Today’s drivers are only empressed with technology & safety features that are overkill if they would just take a long look in the mirror at them selves and realize that they are the number one key safety feature of a motor vehicle a driver needs to practice safety all the time threw knowledge and skill a driver must know how to read traffic & pavement surface conditions & weather & your vehicle condition & your mental & physical condition
Cadillac was not the only big cats . Most cars where big then; Chrysler Products, Fords, Lincoln Mercury, big wagons. Oldsmobile, Buick. When cars cut down, consumers went to SUVs
In fact, controlling for inflation, gas is cheaper today than it was in the 1970s. Remember OPEC and the Energy Crisis? Of course, if you have an electric or electric-hybrid the price of gas becomes irrelevant. Your car is already “filled up” when you leave home with it, and when you return it will be filled again for you, at a price that is about 65% per mile the cost of gasoline. And depending on your source of electricity, the electric fuel produces anywhere from somewhat less to zero pollution or carbon emissions. (And it has a rate of acceleration that will beat any internal combustion engine.)
No not over a Cadillac, but yes over a Lincoln. Imperial build quality was indeed better than Ford. Liked the Imperial’s style too. Not a bad choice all things considered:)
Yes, quite long. When I was shopping for a house over a decade ago, I was able to narrow down the candidates quite a bit by requiring the house had a garage that could fit my Cadillacs in it.
Yes, but they don’t handle like it. You can spin one almost effortlessly into a reasonable parking spot, even a 2023 parking space, something like a Chevrolet Suburban, maybe even easier:)
Absolutely Paul! Super Mack Daddy! Be careful out there on the streets. And don’t forget to pack your .32 revolver that Ames Jainchill gave you out west...Don’t worry, your secret is safe with me:)
That is not true.. only if some asshole "pimps it out"... otherwise, these are cherished by vintage luxury car owners all over the world, which I can ASSURE you, are not fucking pimps! sheesh.. smh...
They are two OILS CRISIS on 70 ies (1973 & 1978). Those beautiful big luxury cars consume a lot of OILS. American people wanted economic cars like japenese cars. And rich people prefers boughts European Luxury cars, may be.
