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Post by Airbus A346 on Aug 5, 2020 15:51:20 GMT 1
I had to photograph this, parked in the car park at Turweston ........
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Post by vanguard on Aug 5, 2020 19:05:53 GMT 1
Not a new set of wheels again Martin,nice 👍😎
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Post by bulldog on Aug 8, 2020 13:06:58 GMT 1
Fantastic , the fins at the back are just so good. Makes modern cars look very dull
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Post by northbynorthwest on Aug 12, 2020 4:31:46 GMT 1
I believe this is a 1960 Cadillac de Ville. Absolutely enormous and heavy car, with a 6.4 liter V-8 engine giving a bit over 10mpg fuel consumption. In England, the Vauxhall Velox of the same era looks similar - but is about 4.5m in length versus 5.7m with the Cadillac, and also weighs around half the weight of the Cadillac.
Pink Cadillacs were famous for being given to women who were sales leaders for the Mary Kay Company, basically a pyramid sales empire selling women's skincare products via house parties. These sales leaders would recruit people at these parties to sell the products too, and take a percentage of their sales commissions. These people in turn would recruit yet more people beneath them. The more people recruited, the more money would be made by those at the top of the pyramid. The most successful sales leaders were the ones who would end up with a pink Cadillac too. Quite the racket.
You still occasionally see pink Cadillacs to this day, but Mary Kay have diversified to less ostentatious cars, and they don't have to be pink. Interesting thing is that this Cadillac would not have been a Mary Kay car, as they only started in business in the early 1960's, a few years after this one was built. I still can't get my head around anyone actually wanting to buy a pink car in the first place.
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