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Cadillac
1929
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Unless otherwise specified all photos
and illustrations are from Yann Saunders'
collection of Cadillac photos, advertisements and product catalogs,
reproduced courtesy of the Cadillac Motor Car Division and the Cadillac-LaSalle Club
Among the most beautiful product catalogs I have seen is the 1929 Cadillac all-model color brochure from which the pictures below have been excerpted for your viewing pleasure.
In addition to the regular line illustrated in these pages, Fleetwood built many custom and semi-custom models; if I don't run out of Web space, I may include photos of some of them in the future.
The quality of these artist's renderings and the color selections for each model are, in my opinion, on a par with their 1927 and 1928 proposals. However, it seems that the majority of people who, in 1929, could afford to buy a Cadillac, chose more discreet colors than those illustrated in the catalog. Fortunately, the collectors who own and restore these models today - especially the open cars - have access to pictures like these and will generally go for a more flamboyant color scheme than the one initially chosen by the original owner.
The catalog from which are drawn the pictures below has a chocolate-colored cover with a black "zig-zag" border; the word "CADILLAC" appears at the top center, in large, white, upper case letters with a black shadow for emphasis. Below the title is the plain Cadillac crest [no color] resting on a kind of "graphic explosion" of flags, flag staffs and a decorative horizontal frieze. I believe this was the best literature item for 1929; it was printed in detroit by Evans-Winter-Hebb. The date on one of the inner, front pages is shown as MCMXXVIII, that is 1928, although the models are those of 1929.
I have shown the cars in ascending order of their list prices. I do not have prices for individual Fleetwood models but, on the 1929 pricelist, we are told that prices for the Fleetwood models range from $4195 to $7000.
The new, 1929 models were shown first at a Distributors' Convention (in New York ?) on July 30-31 and August 1-2, 1928. At that time it was stated by the company that the models shown would be available for shipment to dealers in September 1928.
The standard model range
with bodies by Fisher
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Fleetwood Custom Jobs
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From top left,
clockwise: 1) luxurious rear seating with window blinds all round, 2) the instrument board and outer sun visor, 3) smoking and vanity cases, armrest storage, 4) trunk louver and spare tire carrier, 5) door frieze, ash receiver and stylish Ternstedt hardware |
More details
Easy ID for 1929: fender-mounted parking
lights combined with hood vent louvers on
the rear section of the hood side panels
The V8 motor is described as: "the supreme achievement of automotive engineering... motive power exquisitely refined, intimately adapted to the uses of a fine car"
The interior of the sedan for
seven passengers looked like this
In the sedan models,
the front seat was adjustable
Still more details
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Devastation in Los Angeles
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[ Background image: 1929 front clip (easy ID features) - from the 1929 product
brochure ]