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Cadillac was THE car after the war. In fact the only competitor was the Lincoln Continental. In 1950, Cadillac redesigned its 1949 by changing the front grill and simplifying other body details. It also powered the car with a, for the time, powerful V8 engine. The following came from a web posting I read:
Briggs Cunningham, entered a near-stock 1950 Cadillac in that year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans in France. Driven by Sam and Miles Collier, it finished 10th overall — a performance unmatched by any other production luxury car — tearing down the Mulsanne Straight at around 120 mph and averaging 81.5 mph for the entire event. Cunningham himself drove a streamlined Cadillac-powered special that the French called Le Monstre. He went even faster than the Colliers, but lost top gear and finished right behind them. Perhaps most impressive, a British-built Allard J2, powered by the same Cadillac V-8, finished third.
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This car was in very good shape for a street car.
© Fred Winograd copyright 2009
oooh, red, shiny. This is a great old boat…hope he didn’t get a ticket for parking in the crosswalk! A person could get hurt on those…er, bumpers.