GTP Cool Wall: 1959 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

For me it's on the same level as the BMW from the last cool thread, but it will get a a cool barely since it's older and has slightly more history. Looks wise I never liked Cadillac.

Oh and fast and loud have proven to me how cool these type of cars can be.

 

[Worst_Driver]

The whole 1959 cadillac's line up is sub-zero with the Eldorado Biarritz making its way into lord Kelvin's ice box.

But yeah, I'm a huge fan of old Cadillacs. The last real one has been produced in 1976.

 

[Wiegert]

It brings attention, but it also brings the assumption that your a pensioner finally living your dream of driving a Cadillac, which is nice, but not cool.

Unless you live in a country where the mere thought of someone over a certain age trying to negotiate one down small roads or attempting to park it brings nothing but anxiety and fear.

 

[skynyrd]

It brings attention, but it also brings the assumption that your a pensioner finally living your dream of driving a Cadillac, which is nice, but not cool.

...to be honest, most of those people seem to have ended up with Cadillacs from the 90s and early 2000s. The only people I ever see driving cars like these are either people who bought one when it was new and kept it or whose parents bought it new (i.e. old car guys), and people who saw one and thought it was cool enough to buy/restore their own (i.e. regular car guys). The pensioner types (around here anyway) tend to not care about year or model so much as a brand name, so they pick up something new or slightly used.

 

[RVDNuT374]

Sub-zero. Luxury cars from that era automatically get that rating.

 

[White & Nerdy]

Oh, and I nominated this one

Fixed

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

It just oozes coolness.

 

[niky]

To be fair, if I were driving this one, nobody would assume I was overcompensating for anything, or living out a pensioner's dream (not old enough). And I don't look like a hipster.

People would assume I was borrowing the car from someone infinitely cooler than myself. And they'd be right.

Cool.

 

[TheCracker]

As an object it's stylish and very much of it's time, but for a European it's an irrelevant vehicle. Meh.

 

[Cano]

It brings attention, but it also brings the assumption that your a pensioner finally living your dream of driving a Cadillac, which is nice, but not cool.

You're out of your mind. Then again, it's you, so...

 

[MoLiEG]

Subzero, no reason to explain...

 

[Roger the Horse]

I have never seen any form of Cadillac driven by anyone under the age of 60. Maybe it's different in the states, but big old american cars are very much the reserve of a certain type of person over here in Europe, and while it may be great that those individuals get to live their dream and drive such an awesome car, nothing about them or the car is cool.

Big old american cars with huge fins are awesome, not cool.

 

[MoLiEG]

I have never seen any form of Cadillac driven by anyone under the age of 60. Maybe it's different in the states, but big old american cars are very much the reserve of a certain type of person over here in Europe, and while it may be great that those individuals get to live their dream and drive such an awesome car, nothing about them or the car is cool.

Big old american cars with huge fins are awesome, not cool.

So... awesome =/= cool???

I always have a hard time trying to understand your logic, but well.. to each it's own

 

[Roger the Horse]

Yes, awesome and cool are very different.

Batman is awesome. James Bond is cool.

 

[MoLiEG]

I don't know if that was a good example, but now I think I got your point... 💡

Sort of

 

[JAHHAJ]

Looks beautiful and is a very good cruising car, cool.

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

Yes, awesome and cool are very different.

Batman is awesome. James Bond is cool.

Batman is cool. James Bond is awesome. They are pretty interchangeable.

 

[Tornado]

The earlier Fleetwood-bodied Series 70 Brougham and contemporary Eldorado Brougham were cool. Like the Mercedes 600, but 15 years sooner. They also both looked a lot better.


This was just a dressed up "basic" full size Cadillac in comparison. And since it was in 1959, that meant the absolute peak of horrible overstyling.

 

[Cano]

And since it was in 1959, that meant the absolute peak of horrible overstyling.

Which is why it's cool. Also cool are all other overstyled barges of that year. Just look at them Olds' rockets!

 

[Badasp5.0]

I have never seen any form of Cadillac driven by anyone under the age of 60. Maybe it's different in the states, but big old american cars are very much the reserve of a certain type of person over here in Europe, and while it may be great that those individuals get to live their dream and drive such an awesome car, nothing about them or the car is cool.

Big old american cars with huge fins are awesome, not cool.

Around here young Vatos love Cadillac's and more own them than old people seriously. The resale value on '90s and '00s Caddies is horrible so they are super cheap. I have family who are into the whole Vato/low rider lifestyle and most only buy Caddillac's.
Btw since your in Europe you probably have no idea what a vato is so here you go.

 

[Cano]

Oi, vato loco! Gatumadre hijoetu!

But these guys don't drive old Cadoos.

 

[Tornado]

Vatos don't buy old DeVilles and Sevilles when there are hundreds of thousands of Caprices and Town Cars for even cheaper.



Though the resale value on DeVilles and (especially) Sevilles are low enough that they are virtually worthless these days.

 

[Crash]

This doesn't ooze the chutzpah that the Eldorado did, but stepping out of one of the back of one of these, you'll still be pretty damn suave.

Cool.

 

[High-Test]

It's the pinnacle of late 50s american excess when gas was cheap, Rock and Roll was new, families were conservative, and nuclear annihilation was one button away.

Sub. Freaking. Zero.

 

[huskeR32]

I want to say it's cool. I realize, vaguely, that this car was seriously cool in it's day.

But I gotta say, the 50's for me are probably the most uninteresting years in automotive history. Gaudy and over-styled - just doesn't float my boat. Gets a meh.

 

[Dennisch]

American cars from the 50's and 60's will outlive everything build in the US up to the early 00's. It has only been a couple of years that the US mass produces cars that are worthy of a future like the Fleetwood has, and other cars of that era.

 

[High-Test]