1968 Cadillac Sedan de Ville
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- čas přidán 8. 02. 2016
- This is a short video of a very nice, pristine 1968 Cadillac Sedan de Ville that is currently at the dealership I work at in storage. It has very very low miles (5,897 miles currently). Has the 7.7L V8 with a 3-speed Turbo-HydraMatic 400 Automatic Transmission. It's painted in Silverpine Green Metallic and has the green cloth/vinyl interior.
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Thank you! It was a wonderful era for American autos especially the Cadillac. We had in our family, the '59 De Ville, the '62 De Ville and the '64 Sedan De Ville. Our family became split when 1968 rolled in. I wish my mom could of have one. In '68 she was roaring around LA in a '59 Corvette.
All that and no mention that it had cruise control. Probably the rarest option on that car!
for sure !!
These were cool and still real horsepower, love big American cars. Beautiful ☺
Simply incredible to say the least.....to have a car in that type of condition after nearly 50 years (in 2016) is simply mind boggling, not to mention also having the original manual and window sticker, wow!
Love how the rear view mirror is mounted on a post from roof bet it doesn’t fall off like my windshield mounted on
absolutely gorgeous
This would be the only post sedan in this series until 1970...and they all came back in 1977!
Blast from the past! Super clean Caddy!
What can you say...nothing like a Caddy from the late 50s to the late 60s...leaves me drooling LOL...thanks for posting....
I love these old-school land yachts
love how the smell of the key makes the engine turn
Beautiful Cadillac, love that color, can't tell if its green or blue. Also love the cigarette lighters/ash trays in the rear doors, everybody gotta have a way to light up lol.
It's a dark green with just a touch of blue in it. Not a grassy green.
I had a Coupe De Ville in the same color. Same cloth interior. The cloth was called 'Domino' and the Vinyl & Leather grain was called 'Kiwi'. I still have some of the NOS cloth & vinyl material.
I drove a 68 just like that in the mid 70s, mine had a black interiod leather, about the same condition
Don't think he knew this is the "extremely" rare post sedan. Most were no post hardtops.
Paul Peterson Extremely rare because few people wanted them! Adds no value now.
@@craigjorgensen4637 It does have more rear legroom.
@@craigjorgensen4637 the pillared body style was my favorite. I don't know about Cadillac's being popular in this model but 98 Pillared Luxury Sedans were very popular.
Hardtops were very popular. This is the first year of the 472 which was perhaps Cadillac’s next V-8 in the period up to now, engineering shared with the famed 8.2 litre.
1968 was the first year for the Cadillac switch pitch torque converter on their turbo 400 transmission as well.
This is beauty.
Sheer beauty.
I notice this car has factory cruise control. A very rare and expensive option on the DeVille level trims at that time - usually only the Fleetwoods and Eldorados would have cruise.
This is an excellent, beautiful car. I know it’s an old post but it came up on my feed and I just had to comment.
Ours was brown had the cruise control but no power locks no shoulder harness belt had head rest that were removable
Wow I had no idea cadillac had power windows and seats back then amazing. Gotta love a cadillac
DCFashionGuru According to the Owner Manual, there was also an optional rear seat AC unit and front seat warmers!
Power windows were available in the 1940s
What should amaze you is not that it had power windows, but in 1967 you could still get roll up/down windows, as well as non-power seats.
@@JoshBrinson on the Fleetwoods (60 Special & Eldorado) it had real wood, not the fake plastic wood Caddy used for the next 30 years.
Cadillac and a few other high end cars did. But most other cars of that day didn't (not as standard, anyway). But Cadillacs have almost always had power windows.
Real Cadillac!
I always thought the 68 was the best looking, we had a 69 Fleetwood brougham, white on white, with red Leather, but the 68 was my favorite!! and stupid fast !!!!
I had one that was Gold metallic, with a white roof. Brown interior
Wow--I'm in love--what a babe of a car---Cadillac Courchene 406-650-4636 Montana
Love the color
This is really nice I had a 69 cadallic gold in color I really miss it they are so smooth running nice to drive .
The gold color was nicer; I had a '72 Coupe with the 472, and gold color.
Espectacular Power 💪 & elegance 🎩
teal beauty!
So beautiful oh my God
we had a 1969 Fleetwood brougham in1972,beautiful white on white, with red leather Interior...
this was one FAST car for it's size!!
Absolutely stunning and my favorite model, a pillored sedan, which were made from 1965 to 1970. As another poster noted, the pillored models are rare. The pillored models came in the Sedan De Ville and Calais body style. It always bugged me to see a Cadillac with manual side windows which were common in the Calais models. I thought why buy a Cadillac without power windows.
@Robert Pace Did you know that the center pillar tooling was the same as what was used on the the 1965-1970 Fleetwood Sixty Special/Brougham models? On the 1969-1970 models, for example, outside of the wheelbase differences, if it weren't for the Fleetwood's more squarer sail panels, upon first glance, you'd think it and the pillared Sedan deVille (1970 was its final season) could pass for the same car, due to the Fleetwood Sixty Special/Brougham models's front and rear vent windows being eliminated for 1969.
@@thomasshort1784 different subject but still about Cadillac's, in the pre 1965 models, some body styles with 4 doors and a stationary rear vent vent window were called 6 window sedans. I always wondered why when I counted 8 side windows, 6 of which were functional, just like the traditional 4 door hardtop.. Do you know why they were called 6 window sedans?
EXACTLY !!!!!!!!!!, Power windows became standard on the Calais beginning that year, 1968, Finally Cadillac must have figured it out that 97% of Calais buyers would spent the extra $120.00 or so just to have them, I always wondered why in the heck cheap ppl would buy the cheapest model Cadillac offered ?, Why not just spend the extra $300.00 - $500.00 and get a DeVille !!!, Can't believe they kept the Calais going till the end of the 1976 model yr., dropping in 1977, .lol.
@@dennisjones44 The Calais probably appealed to some "frugal" types who thought too much luxury was frivolous--same folks who bought the Series 61 Cadillacs after WWII, the interiors of which sometimes looked more like mid-range Chevrolets than Cadillacs!
It's a babe magnet of a car.
Very, very rare LWB version as demoted by the presence of the B pillar. Car is missing powered front quarter windows and passenger side door mirror. Otherwise, fully spec'd.
Nice Cadillac
I just came across a very very clean one for sale. I'm trying to figure a good asking price.
They don't make em like this anymore
I would love to know where this car came from. I knew a guy that had the twin to this car. I have not seen him since 1998. He bought it new and treated it better than his wife.
I have one of these that's the same as this one but with a black landau top.
Nice❤
I am still trying to find out how and why a "Drop nosed" differential was fitted to some? [no idea how many] Enabled the car to have a lower trans tunnel, looked odd withe the rear universal just a fraction lower than the banjo.probably a late 60's model, gthink it was a De ville.just remember those long chrome type strips on the front fenders.
HOW MUCH ARE THEY ASKING FOR THIS CAR? THANK YOU
The front seats and the center pillars, it might be a Calais instead?
I've been told that it is not a Calais.
I just double checked my 1968 Cadillac sales brochure. Looks like a senior moment on my part. Thanks.
Ya, Sedan DeVilles came like this but they are extremely rare. If its a Calais it says Calais. :)
I used to have a 1967 Cadillac.................owners manual.
A land yacth. But beautiful one.
How much is the asking price?
IS THIS CAR FOR SALE????? IM SURE BY NOW IT IS SOLD THOU. THANKS.
Nope. It's in a private collection.
Cadillacs always had 'party' size ash trays since they thought that all Cadillac owners smoked like steam engines!
Okay
never seen a post sedan.
What, no headrests in 68?!
D Donner not until '69.....
D Donner They were an option and were available but rarely ordered. They were standard in '69 I think.
No!
1969.
@@hendersonchap6725 They became standard on ALL U.S. cars beginning January 1, 1969.
Stunning car but it burns a lot of gas!
GadsdenFlagHero -If you have to worry about that ; you cant afford it....
Alot of the old mid to late 60's cars burned a lot of fuel- it wasnt until fuel injection and lighter weight bodies did the gas mileage start improving.......along with smaller engines/more powerful engineering.
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NOW THAT'S A FISTFUL OF CADDY! 2017? BULLSHIT!!!
7,154$ dude that’s so cheap 😭
That's like $49,000 now.
In 1968! For example, my mom wrote out a check to pay in full for a fully loaded 1971 brand new Eldorado. The amount? $10,000.00. For one of her accounting clients.
I know this is an old vid, but makes me laugh about the power trunk pull down description , ""in case you fail to close the trunk, ", "I t closes, by it self ", too funny, no, is power pull down is just another needless luxury item offered, not ordered because you simply may not have enough strength to close it on your own, lol, and its a DeVille, so the trim in the seating is not vinyl, but leather, you'd think they would know this before shooting the vid.