1957 Cadillac Coupe DeVille

The giant slept deeply. In the giant's dream, all the gas stations on Route 66 were open again, and all selling 100-octane premium leaded gasoline. The giant roared down the desert highway to a vanishing point on the western horizon. And the giant dreamed on.

Cadillac's first all-new car since 1948. In 1957 the Caddy 365 V-8 produced a gravel-crushing 400 ft. lbs. of torque.

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1952 Cadillac Series 62

GM introduced an all-new Cadillac in 1948, with a high-compression V-8 in 1949. By the 1950s, the technology in Caddys had left other luxury carmakers in the dust. Automatic transmission had already been available since 1941, now add to that wrap-around glass and power-everything by the mid-50s.

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