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without a dogleg windshield and with the ’65 Cadillac’s stacked headlights. Commercial Chassis-based vehicles made that year, on the other hand, look completely different, i.e. According to (sometimes confusing) online sources, it seems the Fleetwood limos kept the old cowl and the ’64 styling through MY 1965.

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That awesome wraparound windshield, for its part, remained unchanged in the Commercial Chassis until GM updated the Series 75’s cowl in 1965. It looks like the 1959 dash was carried over unchanged until the Series 75 / Commercials of MY 1963, so we still have the older dash in our feature car.

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No wonder it was impossible to get a full profile shot. Total length: a whopping 248.3 inches, or 6.3 meters. This limousine style and that tan re-spray makes the car look like a giant wagon, which is what it essentially is.

That makes it pretty much identical to the famous 1959 car used in Ghostbusters, save for the 1962 front clip and fins. Our CC is the Futura Limousine model that was probably used as an ambulance/hearse (known in M-M parlance as a Duplex Combination) and features a “limousine-style” (i.e. They went out of business in 1979, pretty much in parallel with the demise of the old-style Commercial Chassis.

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By 1962, half of the professional cars made in the US were made by M-M. and the Meteor Motor Car Co., both professional car specialists based in Ohio. That company was formed in the mid-‘50s when Indiana bus bodymaker Wayne bought A.J. Miller-Meteor alone had a dozen or so variations to choose from, with landau roofs, high roofs with or without integrated warning lights, suicide rear doors, etc. By the late ‘70s, ambulances switched to sturdier truck/van-derived bases and Cadillac’s Commercial Chassis production quickly declined before being halted altogether in 1980.Ĭouldn’t find any Miller-Meteor literature from 1962, so here’s something from 1959… Buick, Ford, Olds, Chrysler, etc.) production wagons. After Packard quit making theirs in 1954, Cadillac pretty much had the top tier of the professional car market all to themselves for a good 20 years, although there always was a trickle of low-spec vehicles based on various (e.g. The Cadillac Commercial Chassis was a mainstay for many years. Let’s delve into the great unknown and unsung Cadillac that is the Commercial Chassis. We’ll get to that eventually, but that’s not this post’s most pressing concern. I’m guessing we have a great big V8 in there, drum brakes and automatic transmission. At least, the hubcaps are accounted for – and there is a spare back there, too.ĬC has looked at the 1962 Cadillac a number of times and in great detail (see end of the present post), so there is no need to rehash all the technical stuff. No sign of a gurney or anything back there, though it might just be hidden from view. For a start, that rear bench seat may not have been there when the good people at Miller-Meteor made this contraption. I’m guessing this cavernous cabin must have seen its fair share of changes. But do what exactly? Well, looks like it used to belong to someone who liked big dogs and I guess if you wanted to haul a pack of hounds, you could do worse than getting a boat like this, depending on how the interior is set up. There aren’t exactly many ancient Commercial Caddys about anywhere, least of all on this side of the Pacific, so let’s hope this one would do. Better than the black one in the movie, to be honest. Maybe new rings, also mufflers, a little wiring…” Just to note that $4800 in 1984 would be worth about $13,000 in 2022.ĭoes this 1962 version of the famous ECTO-1 need similarly diligent and copious TLC? Well, it sure looks bit peaky, but complete. Needs some suspension work… and shocks, brakes, brake pads, linings, steering box, transmission, rear end…” Venkman (Bill Murray) interjects: “How much?” Stantz, unfazed: “Only 4800. Dan Aykroyd, who co-wrote the script and knows his onions, car-wise) gets out of the Cadillac, exclaims: “Everybody relax, I found the car. That’s what Bill Murray’s character says when he sees a dirty and clapped out black ’59 Miller-Meteor combination ambulance/hearse stopping in front of the Ghostbusters’ HQ. So when I found this Stay-Puft Marshmallow Caddy a few weeks back, the first thing I said (almost out loud) was “You can’t park that here!”

And thanks to countless subsequent viewings (in the original language, as my first screening took place before I spoke English), it’s one of the few films I can practically quote in its entirety.

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The original Ghostbusters was the first movie I saw at a real cinema, so it kind of made an impression on me.

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