Cadillac Sixty Special - 27c
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Cadillac Sixty Special - 27c |
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| If you've spent any
time looking around these pages you will know how much I love the old
Yankee fin monsters and this is right up there with the best of them.
There is a 'Sixty Special' in my 1959 Observers Book of Automobiles, but
this is not quite the same and I think is a little older, '57 or '58
model perhaps.
The '56 model was the old El Dorado shape so it is definitely later than
that. The Cadillac Sixty Special (27c) was introduced in 1960 and remained in the range until 1966. It is seen in a range of colours, always two-tone with a cream or pale pink roof. Bases can be dark red, black or blue. The lower bodywork is pale green, silver-grey or metallic lilac. Ramsay lists an apple green version at very silly money which suggests it was a pre-production trial and one of the websites mentions brown versions not in Ramsey. My observation is that the lilac, brown & grey shades are similar, and it is hard to tell sometimes when silver becomes lilac. Apple green pre-pro jobs aside there are some of these worth looking for. The metallic pale green ones are sought after as are the silver grey models or lilac with a blue base. Black base black wheels versions appear to be the most commonly found, but my research has been a bit contradictory on that. I suspect that a nice boxed one of these in any colour will always be in demand. |
| Metallic lilac, pink roof, red base, silver plastic wheels front, black plastic wheels rear. This is not necessarily a factory error, the rear axle on these cars is not riveted over and can be pushed out allowing the rear wheels to be changed quite easily, do not pay a premium for odd-bods like this! | Metallic lilac, pink roof, red base, silver plastic wheels | |||||
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| Last Edit: 04/09/2011 | Page Added 01/02/2009 |