1978 Cadillac Eldorado Custom Biarritz by aldenjewell on Flickr.
1978 Cadillac Eldorado Custom Biarritz
What ’70s fuel crisis? Well, it wasn’t the last one, but it was the ultimate big Eldorado with that 500 in³ block.
A milestone reached The 2,000th model on Autocade went up today. It’s this: the Opel Kadett D. Blog post here.
1950 Chevrolet poster.
Shame they’re just rebadged Daewoos in the UK these days.
A new decade There’s something very cool about these illustrations from the 1950s—and I’d love to see a modern car company do something similar for an entire range.
Source: pinterest.com
Adam-2 I know, GM has been doing this for years, but I still find it fascinating. I would guess the Opel pic was the original, as it’s easier removing a fuel filler cap than putting one on in photo-editing.
(via Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild reunion set for Scottsdale)
GM gets talent The Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild, 1965. How many of these ideas made it into production?
Spark plug When I see this ad, I just think: buy a Daewoo Matiz, watch your world fall apart.
That’ll be the Daewoo Finding it rather appropriate that of all the pages a Holden ad would show up on Autocade, it’s this one. And it’s selling all the ex-Daewoo models, such as Matiz, Lacetti and Winstorm (Spark, Cruze and Captiva), as well as the Holden version of the Chevrolet Aveo, the Barina.
Opel GT (by Martin van Duijn)
Opel GT Love the Opel GT. Chuck Jordan oversaw this, didn’t he?
Complete with beak I wonder who to blame for American cars getting so damned ugly at the turn of the 1970s. I think Bunkie Knudsen deserves some of it, with his idea of what GM was doing at the time brought over to Ford—and uglifying Henry’s cars in the process.
1978 Chevrolet Impala Coupe (by coconv)
A smaller full-size The ad says this Chevy is ‘aerodynamic’. Wasn’t the Cd around 1,11? Homer Simpson would be more aerodynamic in a wind tunnel.
Quick and mostly irrelevant thoughts from a 
