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.
Lead trim: Fleetwood Seventy-Five (1973) · up to 345 hp
Cadillac Series 751971–1976
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FactThe 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.
As with all GM full-size lines the Series 75 was redesigned for 1971, with the new GM bodies setting a record for interior width (62.1 in front and 64.0 in rear shoulder room on Cadillac) not matched until the full-size GM rear-wheel-drive models of the early to mid-1990s: individually housed squarish headlamps set wider apart, a V-shaped eggcrate grille, a wide hood with hidden wipers, fender skirts and long vertical taillights. Standard equipment included automatic level control, automatic climate control and a rear window defogger, a hand-fitted padded vinyl roof was available with triangular "coach" or blind-quarter windows, and the limousine had doors cut into the roof, special upholstery and a driver's partition with adjustable division window. 1972 had a modest frontal revision, 1973 widened grilles and energy-absorbing bumpers, 1974 a wide eggcrate grille and a "space age" digital-clock instrument panel with Twilight Sentinel, 1975 dual rectangular headlamps with cornering lights and separate climate systems and 1976 a finer crosshatch grille, "Fleetwood" block nameplates and Track Master anti-skid. Dimensions: 151.5 in wheelbase (157.5 in commercial), 247.3 in long in 1971, 248.9 in in 1972, 250.0 in in 1973 and 252.2 in in 1974–76, 79.8 in wide, 56.8 in high, 5,500–6,100 lb, with the 472 cu in (7.7 L) or 500 cu in (8.2 L) OHV V8 and a 3-speed Turbo-Hydramatic 400 (the page does not year the engines or give ratings). Chiang Kai-shek's 1972 Fleetwood Seventy-Five is pictured.
Collectors Spotted in the Cadillac Series 75 Lineage
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Trims & Figures
4 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleetwood Seventy-Five (1971) | 1971–1971 | V8 | 345 hp | 500 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Fleetwood Seventy-Five (1972) | 1972–1972 | V8 | 220 hp | 365 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Fleetwood Seventy-Five (1973) | 1973–1973 | V8 | 220 hp | 365 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Fleetwood Seventy-Five (1974–1976) | 1974–1976 | V8 | — | — | — | RWD | — | — |
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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.