Simon Cars - Cadillac deVille 1959-60

Cadillac Coupe deVille and Sedan deVille 1959/60

The 1959 Cadillac is considered the most outrageous of all, and is attributed to a battle to 'out-Chrysler Chrysler' after the 1957 Chryslers showed everyone else up. Designed under the leadership of Chuck Jordan because Harley Earl was absent in Europe during the 1956 gestation period. The 1959 Sedan deVille was offered in two 4-door versions; the 4-window version with wraparound rear window, and the 6-window version with fastback rear window. The Coupe deVille (2-door) had the same fastback roofline as the 6-window Sedan deVille. 53,390 deVilles were sold in 1959, and 53,419 in 1960

Cadillac Coupe Deville 1959. The name 'Coupe deVille' was first used for the 1949 model year Cadillac Series 62 Hardtop Coupe, and eventually became a standard 2-door coupe within the Cadillac range. When a 4-door coupe was offered from 1956 this was given the name 'Sedan deVille'

Cadillac Coupe deVille 1959. There was only one 2-door Coupe, but this was marketed as Series 62, Coupe deVille and the Eldorado Seville.

Cadillac Coupe deVille 1959. Cadillac offered the 1959 2-door hardtop as an entry level Series 62, as a Coupe deVille, and also as an Eldorado Seville.

Cadillac Coupe deVille 1959. 1959 gave General Motors cars their highest wings, and Cadillac were certainly not spared these excesses

Cadillac Sedan DeVille 1959 4-window frontr

Cadillac Sedan DeVille 1959 4-window. A 'fastback' 6-window Sedan DeVille was also offered for 1959

Cadillac Sedan deVille 1959. For 1959 Cadillac fielded 2 different Sedan deVille, this 6-window 'fastback' design and a 4-window wraparound window model. Buick also offered these two styles on its Electra 225 Riviera 4-door hardtops

Cadillac Sedan de Ville 1959. This is the 6light Sedan Deville, there was a 4light Sedan Deville which had a much more wraparound rear window. The Coupe deVille was the 2door equivalent.

Cadillac Sedan Deville 1960. The sedan Deville was a pillarless 4-door hardtop, and this design with large wraparound rear windows shared with other GM brands

Cadillac Sedan Deville 1960. The Series 6300 Sedan DeVille was built on a 130-inch wheelbase, and was a 4-door hardtop

Cadillac Sedan Deville 1960. The extravagant twin pod tail lamps on extra tall fins on the 1959 model were rationalised for 1960 in a general toning down of that year.

Cadillac Sedan Deville 1960. The famous 'twin rockets' of the 1959 model were transformed by Ed Taylor under the new chief stylist Bill Mitchell to the neat fin lights and twinned lamps in the 'jet exhaust' nacelles.

Cadillac Sedan Deville 1960

Cadillac Series 62 1959 Convertible frontc

Cadillac Series 62 1959 Convertible. Cadillac did not build a 'DeVille' convertible, there was only the Series 62 model, built on a 130-inch wheelbase.

Cadillac Series 62 Coupe 1959. The Series 62 was the entry level Cadillac, and this 2-door Coupe body was available on the upmarket Coupe deVille.

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