Friday, April 11, 2025

Conspicuous consumption for the Depression

 

The Cadillac V16 was introduced right after the stock market crash, despite that it received a lot of interest and 2000 were sold in the first 6 months. That exhausted the market and although the car was in available till 1939, production numbers were only about 50 per year. Just too expensive for the times, but this beauty is the Aerodynamic coupe for 1936.

Previous post on the V16 engine here.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's no different today

ghostsniper said...

Newcomer here. I'm likin' what I'm seein'. I'll be stoppin' in daily, may even comment now and then.

Mister G said...

Anon, Yup, even worse now. ghostsniper,: Welcome aboard. Hope you like old rusty things;-)

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of a s-t-r-e-c-h-e-d out VW Beetle.

Jack from Illinois

ghostsniper said...

I'm 70, and an old rusty thing. :-)

Anonymous said...

That's quite a nice-looking bolide... D.