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The One Millionth Cadillac
The one millionth Cadillac was a 1949 Coupe De Ville.
It rolled off the production line on November 25, 1949.
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The One Millionth [Post-War] Cadillac
The one millionth Post-WW2 Cadillac was a 1956 Eldorado
Biarritz.
In an ad published on May 28, 1956, it was asserted:
"This week Cadillac will produce its millionth car since 1945".
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The Two Millionth Cadillac
The two millionth Cadillac was a 1958 Sedan De Ville.
It rolled off the production line on February 7, 1958.
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The Two Millionth [Post-War] Cadillac
The two millionth post WW2 Cadillac was a 1963 sedan.
[who knows for sure what date it rolled off the production line?]
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The Two-Point-Five Millionth Cadillac
The two-point-five millionth Cadillac was a 1962 Series 62
coupe.
It rolled off the production line on August 23, 1961.
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The Three Millionth Cadillac
Information received January 6, 1997 from young Cadillac enthusiast, Ruben Baeten
of Holland (aged 14) reveals that the 3 millionth Cadillac was built November 4, 1964
and was, presumably, a 1965 model; Ruben got the information from the book
on Cadillac by Peter Ruch (written in German).[missing image]
Trivia: The missing image is available in one of many rare factory photo albums claimed to have been found in a dumpster, in Michigan, and later offered for sale on e-Bay in 2002. I believe the CLC Museum and Research Center was able to acquire some of these albums; sadly others have gone into private collections and possibly may be lost for we poor researchers. In the same album is a photo showing the 165,959th and last Cadillac to come off the line in 1964, the highest ever post-WW2 unit production
The Two-Hundred Thousandth Cadillac in a Single Year
I thought this additional piece of information might interest
those who, like me, are keen on statistics. In 1967, for the first time, Cadillac built more than 200,000 cars in a single year.
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Trivia: Another similar photo to the above one, but showing the 250,000th Cadillac built in one year [a 1969 Coupe de Ville] is included in a rare factory photo album claimed to have been found in a dumpster, in Michigan, and later offered for sale on e-Bay in 2002. I believe the CLC Museum and Research Center was able to acquire some of these albums; sadly others have gone into private collections and possibly may be lost for we poor researchers. A new post-WW2 unit production record.
2,754,985
The Three Millionth [Post-War] Cadillac
The three millionth post-WW2 Cadillac was a gold-colored 1968 De
Ville
convertible. It rolled off the production line on June 10, 1968.
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The Three-Point-Five Millionth Cadillac
The two-point-five millionth Cadillac was a 1971 Sedan de Ville
[missing image]
Trivia: The missing image is available in one of many rare factory photo albums claimed to have been found in a dumpster, in Michigan, and later offered for sale on e-Bay in 2002.
The Four Millionth Cadillac
The four millionth Cadillac was a 1969 Coupe De Ville.
It rolled off the production line on June 19, 1969.
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CLC member Murray Mules
about this car inquired on the club forum[2/2012]; he said the car was blue,
with blue top and blue interior, and that the original purchaeser was Lee Mannes
of Claire Shores, MI:
answering Murray the same day, CLC member Ronald Campbell said he remembered the
car well; to the best of his knowledge it car was later traded in on an El
Dorado;
Ronald said that Lee's son was a lifelong friend of his; they had met in Jr High
Trivia: In one of the rare factory photo albums claimed to have been found in a dumpster, in Michigan, and later offered for sale on e-Bay in 2002, is a photo of De Ville model with the banner 238,745th, the new record unit production figure
The Four Millionth [Post-War] Cadillac
The four millionth Post-WW2 Cadillac was a 1973 Coupe De
Ville.
It rolled off the production line on October 12, 1972.
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The Five Millionth Cadillac
The five millionth Cadillac was a blue & white 1973 hardtop Sedan
De Ville.
It rolled off the production line on July 20, 1973. Another production record was
beaten this year with 242,330 units built in one year of which 40,412 Eldorados
[missing images]
Trivia: The missing images are available in one of many rare factory photo albums [this one dated 1974] claimed to have been found in a dumpster, in Michigan, and later offered for sale on e-Bay in 2002.
The Five Millionth [Post-War] Cadillac
The five millionth post-WW2 Cadillac was a 1976 Seville
sedan.
It rolled off the production line on April 29, 1976.
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The Six Millionth Cadillac
The six millionth Cadillac was a 1977 Seville sedan.
It rolled off the production line on February 7, 1977.
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The Six Millionth [Post-War] Cadillac
[no record - no image]
The Seven Millionth Cadillac
The seven millionth Cadillac was a beige 1980 Fleetwood
Brougham sedan.
It rolled off the production line on November 20, 1979.
[missing image]
The Seven Millionth [Post-War] Cadillac
[no record - no image]
Trivia: The last car to leave the former production facilities at Clark Avenue, Detroit, rolled off the assembly line on December 18, 1987. According to the sign on its windshield it was:
#7,782,466.
In all probability Cadillac production now has exceeded the TEN MILLION mark, since 1902, which represents a theoretical average of over 100,000 luxury cars built every year. Looking at the production curves up to the late eighties, it may be assumed that Cadillac hit the ten million mark in the early nineties.
It would have been fun to celebrate that milestone in Cadillac's 100th Anniversary year [2002] but I guess they were not going to slow production down just to create an "event" on October 17, 2002 (remember, the first Cadillac was completed on October 17, 1902).
Who can tell us for sure about the missing "millionth" Cadillacs (eight, nine and ten millionth)?
And then, I guess, we'll leave it at that.
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