Cadillac Advertisement Art

[billyoung]

When I was about 8 I discovered my Grandparents National Geographic magazines had Cadillac ad's and they let me cut them out and I scotch taped them around my bedroom. I will never forget when I was 10 in 1964 my Grandfather who was an attorney and always bought Hudson's till he then bought AMC cars brought home a 1964 brochure and opened it to the 1964 Ambassador 990 Hardtop page and asked me what I thought. When I said PaPa why can't we go to Valley Cadillac I like the cars with tail fins the reaction was immediate where do you get those ideas we are not rich ! etc. I think I might not have gotten as bad a reaction if I had sworn.

[Lexi]

I started on mid 1950s National Geographic Cadillac ads as well. Quite addicting. Clay/Lexi

[tluke]

...when I was 10 in 1964 my Grandfather who was an attorney and always bought Hudson's till he then bought AMC cars brought home a 1964 brochure and opened it to the 1964 Ambassador 990 Hardtop page and asked me what I thought. When I said PaPa why can't we go to Valley Cadillac I I like the cars with tail fins the reaction was immediate where do you get those ideas we are not rich ! etc. I think I might not have gotten as bad a reaction if I had sworn.

I bought my first Cadillac at the age of 19 (a '56 Series 75 in 1970). My grandfather also was a Hudson owner who converted to AMC. The difference between the '64 Ambassador and Cadillac couldn't be more stark;

1964 Ambassador 990  page from brochure


1964 Cadillac Series 62 from Ad

[billyoung]

Correct Terry. My Grandfather bought the 1964 990 Hardtop in dark green with cream colored roof and green interior. He died in 1967 and my Mother traded it in on a 1 year old silver 1966 Cadillac Calais 4 door hardtop with a black cloth interior.