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Rose Colored Caddy: 1960
Submitted by ollie on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 12:09pm.
January 1, 1960 Rose Parade, Pasadena, CA. View full image.
Car lust
Submitted by Anonymous DC Tip... on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 1:12pm.
My kingdom for a car with fins!
Parking a '60 Caddy
Submitted by tterrace on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 7:25pm.
An example of the consequences of parallel parking a 1960 Cadillac can be seen right here on Shorpy.
While riding in my Cadillac
Submitted by Mister Peabody on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 1:29pm.
What an aircraft carrier! How would you like to try to parallel park it? (Now the song "Beep Beep" is running through my head.)
Low Country Style
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 1:28pm.
That Van deKamp's has a big windmill on top.
Cadillac Style
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 12:46am.
1960 Eldorado Biarritz. Makes even Nixon look sexy!
Fabuluxe
Submitted by Bull City Boy on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 12:17am.
There's never been a car that better defined its time and place than that Caddy.
Those folks in the Caddy
Submitted by tterrace on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 10:49pm.
I thought there was something familiar-looking about those two in the back seat, and I was right: Pat & Dick Nixon. Should we read some subliminal political commentary in the fact that they're being driven backward over a left turn lane?
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