Cadillac Antique, Vintage and Classic Parts For Sale

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Photo Title Make Model Year State Price Placed 1937 cadillac/lasalle sedan grill cadillac/lasalle sedan 1937 CA $ 475.00 March 7, 2010 1958 Cadillac Deville Hood Spears Cadillac Deville 1958 CO $ 50.00 February 25, 2010 1969 cadillac eldorado fw bearing cadillac eldorado 1969 VA $ 160.00 February 1, 2010

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Cadillac is General Motor's luxury automobile division. The Cadillac was named after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit, Michigan, in 1701. The first Cadillac appeared 1902 and was almost identical to the 1903 Model A Ford. However better engineering made the car superior to the Ford. Cadillac won the annual Dewar Trophy for the most important advancement in the automobile industry in 1909.

General Motors Corporation purchased Cadillac in 1909 to be the hallmark of its luxury line. The 1912 Cadillac was the first automobile to adopt electric starters and in 1915 it became the first mass produced automobile to feature a V8 engine. Cadillac is also credited with the first safety glass in 1926 and the first fully synchronized transmission in 1928. And Cadillac became the first vehicle to adopt the revolutionary Phillips screws in 1940.

The smaller La Salle first appeared in 1927 and other lines include the De Ville, Fleetwood, Eldorado, Seville, Cimarron and Escalade, their first SUV.