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Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
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General Motors Motorama 1953-1956

Cadillac’s 1956 experimental “dream car” is a combination of futuristic design with the outstanding characteristics of the classic town car. Consequently, it is appropriately called the Eldorado Brougham Town Car. The car is 78.8 inches wide, 55.8 inches high, 219.9 inches long and has a wheelbase of 129.5 inches. The tread is 61 inches both front and rear. The car’s horsepower is yet to be announced.

The top exterior is of black landau leather. The lower half of the car is painted black. The construction is of fiber glass. The interior of the front compartment is decorated in black Morocco leather with black fiber glass paneling. The rear compartment is decorated all in beige with leather partition doors and quarter hangers and broadcloth seatback cushions an d facings. A beige carpet is on the floor. The passenger compartment of the Eldorado Brougham Town Car contains such items as a radio-telephone combination, air-conditioning equipment, a women’s vanity compartment, cigar humidor and thermos bottle and glasses. The chrome in the rear passenger compartment is of satin gold.

A unique safety feature designed into the Cadillac experimental car is an electronic locking system for the doors. A tiny micro switch located in each of the rear door handles, when depressed, electrically opens the door. When the car’s automatic transmission lever is in the drive position both doors are electrically locked and cannot be opened form the outside. A safety button beneath the driver’s seat releases when he leaves the car to prevent any possibility of being locked out. Another feature of the electrically locking system makes it possible to lock all doors of the car and raise all windows electrically simply by inserting the key in either of the two rear door locks.