Cadillac LaSalle II

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LaSalle II
Presentation year: 1955
Vehicle fair: GM-Motorama
Class : Sports car
Body shape : Limousine , roadster
Engine: Gasoline engine
Length: 4572 mm
Height: 1270 mm
Wheelbase: 2743 mm
Production model: none

The Cadillac LaSalle II was a concept vehicle that the Cadillac Division of General Motors presented at GM-Motorama in 1955. The name is reminiscent of the LaSalle car brand produced by Cadillac from 1927 to 1940 .

There was a roadster and a four-door hardtop - Limousine , as a successor of the concept vehicles La Espada and Park Avenue may apply. The shape, especially of the roadster, was inspired by the new Chevrolet Corvette . At the front, both cars had a radiator grille made of wide, vertical chrome bars below the belt line, and on the sides of the vehicle a wide, color-contrasted embossing that tapered from the front wheel opening to the front doors. Both vehicles also had panoramic windows that stretched between thin, backward-curved A-pillars. The rear doors of the hardtop sedan were hinged at the back. The windshield that extends far into the roof can be seen again on the Eldorado Brougham series model from 1959. The V6 engine had an aluminum engine block, overhead camshafts and mechanical intake manifold injection . All wheels were hung individually and the brake drums were cast into the aluminum wheels.

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