This Fleetwood's seven-passenger formal sedan carried heads of state - a 1955 example served as the Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's official car.
Lead trim: Series 75 331 cu in OHV V8 (230 hp, 1954) · up to 305 hp
Cadillac Series 751954–1956
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FactThis Fleetwood's seven-passenger formal sedan carried heads of state - a 1955 example served as the Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's official car.
The big Series 75 "high-headroom" car came as an eight-passenger limousine with driver's partition or an eight-passenger sedan without partition, both with jump seats, in a lower, sleeker body with a new cellular grille insert, inverted gull-wing front bumpers with dagmar-style guards, round jet-style dual exhaust outlets in the vertical bumper extensions and an Eldorado-style wraparound windshield; V-shaped hood and deck ornaments carried Fleetwood script on the deck lid. Wheelbase grew to 149.8 in for 1954 with output jumping to 230 hp; in 1955 the grille was redesigned, output rose to 250 hp (an optional dual four-barrel setup boasted 270 hp) and Hydramatic became standard; in 1956 there was a new finer grille with a gold-finish option, and the engine was stroked to 365 cu in (6.0 L) for 285 or 305 hp. Length 237.1 in for 1954–55 and 235.7 in for 1956, 79.6 in wide in 1954 and 79.8 in in 1955, 66.2 in high, 5,200–5,300 lb. Owners included Chiang Kai-shek (1955) and President Ramon Magsaysay.
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Trims & Figures
5 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series 75 331 cu in OHV V8 (230 hp, 1954) | 1954–1954 | 5.4 L V8 | 230 hp | 330 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Series 75 331 cu in OHV V8 (250 hp, 1955) | 1955–1955 | 5.4 L V8 | 250 hp | 345 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Series 75 331 cu in dual four-barrel OHV V8 (270 hp, 1955 option) | 1955–1955 | 5.4 L V8 | 270 hp | — | — | RWD | — | — |
| Series 75 365 cu in OHV V8 (285 hp, 1956) | 1956–1956 | 6.0 L V8 | 285 hp | 400 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Series 75 365 cu in OHV V8 (305 hp, 1956) | 1956–1956 | 6.0 L V8 | 305 hp | 400 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
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Owners’ builds
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The 1971-76 Fleetwood Seventy-Five's cabin was so wide it set an interior-width record that no car beat for almost 20 years — not until GM's own full-size cars of the early '90s.
By 1968 the Series 75 limousine packed the biggest-displacement, highest-torque V8 of any American car — serious muscle hidden under acres of formal, chauffeur-driven sheet metal.
By the early 1960s every other Cadillac sedan had gone pillarless — except this stretched nine-passenger Seventy-Five, the one holdout still built with a proper door pillar.
The 1959 Cadillac Series Seventy-Five got a large tailfin and twin bullet taillamps, and its in-house code changed from 7500 to 6700 though the name stayed.
By 1957 the Series 75 was one of just three Cadillacs still wearing a genuine Fleetwood body — yet the Fleetwood name itself appeared nowhere on the outside of the car.
This Fleetwood's seven-passenger formal sedan carried heads of state - a 1955 example served as the Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's official car.
On the all-new 1950 Series 75, Cadillac made power windows standard but left the Hydramatic automatic transmission as an option — backwards from what you’d expect on an ultra-luxury limousine.
Of this pair, the plainer Fisher-bodied Series 67 was actually the longer car — stretching past its fancier, Fleetwood-bodied Series 75 stablemate.
Every 1938 Cadillac shared the same 346 cubic-inch V8 except the Series 75: it got a higher compression ratio for 5 extra horsepower, which meant its owners had to buy pricier high-octane gas.
This Cadillac had everything going for it — a cheaper, more powerful new V8 and a handsome Fleetwood body — but the Great Depression crushed demand anyway: only 5,248 were sold in 1936.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
This era's Fleetwood limousine rode on a stretched 134.4-inch wheelbase — over eleven feet between the axles alone, on top of everything else making up the car.
A front-wheel-drive limousine was almost unheard of in the mid-1980s — only this Executive and the Cadillac Series 75 offered the format at all.
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Checker even pitched a prisoner-transport version of this van, the Convoy, complete with a rear-facing guard seat — nobody ever bought one.
Buick actually undercut Cadillac on price for its 1958 flagship Limited — yet Cadillac still outsold it nearly two to one. Badge snobbery beat the sticker.
The Series 90 Limited's closed cars came dressed in mohair velvet, silk passenger-compartment shades, and wool carpet throughout — despite having no V8 to back up the luxury.
Cadillac executives quietly lobbied to kill this Buick Limited, worried it crept too close to their own turf — even though Buick was building barely 1,500 of them a year.
This stretched DeVille-based limousine came with dual solid-wood writing desks and an in-car VCR with a foldaway LCD TV — luxury so extreme only 781 were ever built.