1963 Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy-Five

The 70/75 Series from Cadillac were their largest and most luxurious postwar cars, not only sold as large sedans but also in limousine form, as well as serving as the platform for livery cars, hearses, ambulances, et cetera.

The 1961 redesign marked the eighth generation of the Series Seventy-Five and carried on the Fleetwood name, denoting that its body was made by the coachbuilder Fleetwood Body Company, which had been purchased by Fisher Body in the 1920s and absorbed into the General Motors family. Fleetwood bodies were exclusive to Cadillac, and only the top-flight Cadillacs, at that.

This was still the era where Detroit made small cosmetic changes for every model year, so it's easy to place this Basildon Green Fleetwood Seventy-Five nine-passenger sedan as a 1963, halfway through the eighth generation's 1961-1965 run.

It is a massive car, stretching twenty feet and three inches from stem to stern, riding on a nearly 150" wheelbase, and weighing a pavement-crushing 5,400 pounds.

Power was provided by a 390 cubic inch version of Cadillac's proprietary V-8. While it retained the same bore and stroke of the previous year's engine, a 390 cube development of the 331 Series OHV engine that debuted in 1949, it featured extensive changed. The new motor had a smaller, lighter block, a revised mounting setup for accessories, and was dubbed the 390 Series. With a Rochester 4-barrel carburetor and 10.5:1 compression, the 390 was rated at 325 SAE gross horsepower.

Base price in 1963 was $9,724 in 1963, which adjusts to over $101k in current money.

This one was photographed in May of 2025 using a Canon EOS 40D and an EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS zoom lens.