Cadillac Sixty Special
The Cadillac Sixty Special is a 1938 to 1974 and from 1986 to 1993 produced car model of the U.S. car brand Cadillac.
The original Sixty Special ( model years 1938-1941 )
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1938 Cadillac launched based on the Series 60 as a prestigious special version of the Sixty Special, a four-door sedan with a special body on its own, good 8 cm flatter frame. What makes the Sixty Special, which had been designed by the later to become General Motors design chief Bill Mitchell, was established in its modern-looking lines with very large for the time windows, flush with the body final side windows, flat design, notchback and the absence of running boards. Technically corresponded to the Special ( with the exception of the mentioned frame and its stretched by 7.6 cm wheelbase ) the remaining 60 Cadillac models ( 5.7-liter V8, three-speed gearbox, hydraulically operated drum brakes). In terms of price it was $ 310 on the 60 sedan, undercutting his prepared at Fisher Bodies body the more expensive versions with Fleetwood structures around $ 1000.
From 1939, the bodies of 60 Special Fleetwood were manufactured and are also available with a partition between the front and rear seats, the much more expensive 1940 Town Car variants came in addition to the program. 1941, the wheelbase has been shortened by 1 inch and the front fenders were extended in the front doors into it.
Created over four years from the original Sixty Special in total 17,918 pieces.
Model years 1942-1974
Cadillac 60 Special ( 1958)
From model year 1942, the special design concept of the original Sixty Special was abandoned; from this time it was the Sixty Special a stylistically the other Cadillac limousine resembling execution on a longer wheelbase and fraught with additional chrome trim.
1942, the wheelbase of the Sixty Special grew to 337.8 cm ( the wheelbase of the base sedan series 61 amounted to 320 cm ); was offered a six-seater sedan with or without blade. Following the resumption of civilian production in May 1946 remained the Sixty Special ( now with the unofficial additional designation Fleetwood provided ) part of the streamlined Cadillac model program and formed below the Series 75 and with its much longer wheelbase, the top model of the brand; however, accounted for the cutting disc version.
Received the 1948 Sixty Special, like all Cadillac models except the 75 Series, a completely new body on an unchanged wheelbase, in 1949 the new house 5.4 -liter V8 engine with overhead valves. In 1950, the wheelbase was shortened to 330.2 cm, 1955 again extended to the old value. In 1956 an increase in displacement of six liters.
1957 there was a model change, which brought a new X - frame instead of the previous lead frame; Moreover, the Sixty Special was now running as a post -less hardtop sedan.
From 1959 the Sixty Special had the wheelbase of the regular Cadillac limousines ( 130 inches or 330 cm ), which was enlarged to 6.4 liters V8. From the cheaper sedan series 62, the Special differed only by a little more chrome and better equipment, from 1961 to 1963 by an independent, angular roof with wide C-pillars. 1964 there was a further increase in displacement to 7 liters.
From model year 1965, the Sixty Special had a longer wheelbase again as the basic models Cadillac Calais and DeVille ( 337.8 instead of 328.9 cm) and was the official term Fleetwood Sixty Special (or Fleetwood 60 Special); at the same time he was running from now on again as a four-door B -pillar. In 1966, the base model even richer equipped variant called Sixty Special Brougham to offer. 1968 Cadillac V8 was enlarged to 7.7 liters, as of 1971 accounted for the base model and only the Sixty Special Brougham remained on offer.
From model year 1975 accounted for the designation Sixty Special; the model was continued under the name of Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham.
Fleetwood 60 Special ( model years 1987-1993 )
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From the autumn of 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood again led a 60 Special in the program. It was an almost 13 cm in stretched wheelbase and length version of the front-wheel drive Cadillac Fleetwood four-door sedan with better equipment, recognized externally from the optically broadened through a drawn in the rear doors vinyl roof C pillar. Technically corresponded to the 60 Special the cheaper DeVille and Fleetwood versions (aluminum -4 0.1 -liter V8, four-speed automatic, independently suspended rear wheels and mixed braking system (disc front / drum rear), here comes standard with ABS).
1988, the V8 engine was enlarged to 4.5 liters. Of 1989 DeVille, Fleetwood and Fleetwood 60 Special a facelift, also now built all four doors on an identical wheelbase; for the 60 Special, this meant a wheelbase shortened by about 5 cm.
In 1991, the V8 was again increased, this time to 4.9 liters, and the four-speed automatic was an electronic control. 1993 accounted for the name Fleetwood 60 Special and got in his last year as standard traction control and an electronic chassis.