Cadillac’s DeVille line was the middle of its lineup, above the Calais but beneath the deluxe cars with bodies from the Fleetwood plant, which were the top of the line for 1966. If you were driving a Cadillac convertible, whether a Fleetwood Eldorado or a DeVille, you were letting everyone know that you'd made it in life.
The base price for a droptop Eldo was $6,631 in great big 1966 dollars, while a DeVille Convertible started at $5,555. This works out to something close to $65,900 and $55,200 in current tiny inflation bucks.
Almost everything that would be a luxury option on lesser cars came standard on the Fleetwood; power-operated everything and they still had real wood in the cockpit in those days. Every seating position had its own ashtray, and the front ones were lighted, while each rear seat had its own cigarette lighter. DeVilles were only slightly less luxuriously appointed.
Power was provided by the 429 cubic inch version of Cadillac's 390 Series V-8. With a four-barrel carburetor and a 10.5:1 compression ratio, it was rated at 340 gross horsepower.
This Cape Ivory example was photographed in September of 2015 using a Nikon Coolpix P7000.
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