Cadillac Cars (up to 1945): Books - History

Cadillac: 110 Years

In celebration of 110 years of one of the most iconic brands in the world, Assouline presents the first luxury book on America's foremost luxury car.
"Cadillac" takes readers on a visual journey through all the decades of its history. Here are presidents and Hollywood stars, closed-body cars and concept cars, the classic and the cutting-edge. Cadillac enthusiasts and car collectors alike will delight in an edition that brings to life the powerful and seductive energy of an American legend.

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Cadillac V-16s Lost and Found - Tracing the Histories of the 1930s Classics

For eleven years prior to World War II, Cadillac defied the norms of practicality and produced an extravagant supercar, a 16-cylinder luxury automobile that could be tailored to the customer's every want. Big, thirsty and lavish, it cemented Cadillac's place in the top tier of motoring magnificence.

Each of the cars has its own colorful and fascinating story to tell. Driven by a life-long love of the V-16 and an interest in the history of his own car, the author has assembled more than 65 of these tales, gleaned from interviews, books, periodicals and documents, into a liberally illustrated book.
Each story is shaped by the people a particular car touched, and the events they lived through together.

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More Cadillac V-16s Lost and Found : 67 New Histories

In 1930, Cadillac rolled out a line of new cars of unsurpassed elegance and craftsmanship that would launch the company into the top tier of luxury carmakers. While competitors produced models with eight or twelve-cylinder engines, Cadillac offered the smooth, powerful performance of a V-16.
Over the next 11 years, each of the nearly 4000 V-16s were as close to hand-made as a commercial auto manufacturer could come.

Their drivers included statesmen, celebrities, businessmen and, sometimes, well-heeled ne'er-do-wells. Many of the cars have survived wartime scrap drives, obsolescence, lack of replacement parts, neglect and the elements. This follow-up volume to "Cadillac V-16s Lost and Found" (2014) presents author's second effort to document the stories of these magnificent machines.

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The Cadillac That Followed Me Home - Memoir of a V-16 Dream Realized

In the midst of the Roaring Twenties, the secret development of the Cadillac V-16 signaled a departure from the automotive tradition, where function took precedence over form.
Launched in 1930 amid the onset of the Great Depression, the Cadillac V-16 became a rare relic of prosperity preceding the economic collapse.

Christopher Cummings, an avid car enthusiast in the 1960s, envisioned the oldest Cadillac V-16s as an unattainable dream during his adolescence. Cummings' memoir chronicles his journey as a car aficionado, detailing his early foray into renovating vehicles at the age of 13.
Over his teenage years, he diligently acquired three classic Cadillacs - a 1941 Series 7523 seven-passenger touring sedan, a 1941 Series 61 coupe, and a 1931 Series 355A Fleetwood Cabriolet.

The narrative unfolds with accounts of his meticulous efforts in restoring and maintaining these prized automobiles, culminating in the unexpected acquisition of the epitome of automotive excellence, the 1930 V-16 Imperial Sedan limousine. This memoir stands as a testament to an elegant representation of the zenith of automotive history's Classic era.

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Cadillac, un faste particulier (Collection Prestige)

If there is an automobile name that has made generations of enthusiasts dream, while symbolizing American dynamism and modernity, it is Cadillac. The Cadillac Automobile Company was founded at the end of a meeting bringing together a determined group, originally from Detroit on a hot afternoon of August 22 1902.
Having become the elite division of the young General Motors from 1909, Cadillac then established itself as an entity that had to be reckoned with. Both with its main national competitors, Packard, Lincoln, Pierce-Arrow, Stutz, Peerless and Duesenberg, and with those no less formidable established in Europe such as Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Hispano-Suiza, Delage and Isotta Fraschini.

The division is part of a constant technical research, the models of the house offer for example, a world first, the electric start and lighting from 1912, or even at the disposal of the clientele a unique choice of V8, V12 or V16 mechanics, then devotes itself from 1967 to the technique of the front-wheel drive.
Today Cadillac displays a newfound dynamism, a reputation of know-how which now extends as far as China.

This work traces the rich and long history of Cadillac, American brand of prestige and still in activity.

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