Car of the Week: 1959 Cadillac Series 6200 coupe

[dodgechargerfan]

General Motors assembled more than 142,000 of its glorious, glamorous and glitzy 1959 Cadillacs as the era of big fins reached its zenith.

Mike Siegal always held out hope that there was one out there somewhere that was meant to be his. The old car-loving Skokie, Ill., resident dreamed for years of owning one of the famous Caddies with the cartoonishly tall tailfins, but there came a point when he began to lose hope.

“It’s always been a dream car for me, and I waited a long time … And all the time I figured it was getting further away,” Siegal recalls. “You now how that is. You want a car, and you wait, and it just keeps getting more expensive. You want a ‘60s Corvette? Forget about it! Now they are all over $50,000. So that’s the way I figured it was going for me.”

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[TheIronSausage]

If I had a time machine and a brand X boner, I'd wait a year and buy one of these.

or, one of these.. Because Wagon.

 

[Not A Duster]

I just can't get excited about those things..... Wifey loves all that stuff from that era, but not me so much.

 

[restoman]

The '59 Caddy was...ok.
The poster-child for Detroit excess: make it big, make it gaudy, make it pass everything but a gas station and make it Hellaciously expensive.

I love the finned cars, but by '59, the only good looking ones came from Ma.

Now... something like a '66 Cadillac... you'll have my attention.

 

[68R/T]

, but by '59, the only good looking ones came from Ma.

YES....now this is KLASS;