This is HOW YOU DRIVE Ms. Daisy! 1947 Cadillac Fleetwood
Spectacular All Original 1947 Cadillac Fleetwood
Cadillac's 1947 lineup was the end of a chapter - one that began in the prewar era. Starting in the 1940s, Cadillac focused its energies. Gone after 1940 were the successful junior-division LaSalles nibbling away at the bottom end of Cadillac's market share; so, too, the mighty range-topping, if slow-selling, V-16-powered models that were banished to the used-car lots of history.
For the 1941 model year, the extreme ends of Cadillac's lineup were not quite as extreme as they were just a couple of years earlier: The new B-body-based Series 61 Cadillacs replaced the LaSalle marque entirely, and the Series 75 Fleetwood became the top of Cadillac's model lineup. From five series and 39 models in 1940 to six series and 26 models for 1941, this lineup was eventually whittled down to just four series and 12 models for 1947.
That re-focusing appeared wise in the long run. Cadillac had a rough year in 1946. As the division got back on line, material shortages plagued all manufacturers that yearned to build cars for a hungry postwar public. As a premium car line, fewer than 30,000 1946 Cadillacs were built. And there likely wasn't much hope for the 1947 models internally. They only needed to keep up their end of the bargain while style changes for 1948 and mechanical changes for 1949 were being prepared.
Even in 1947, there were more than 100,000 unfilled orders waiting for the division. GIs had back pay to burn, and despite the ever-consolidating series and model lineups, a total of 61,926 Cadillacs were built-more than twice the number built for 1946. (Just as importantly, the 1947 Cadillac line beat Packard by nearly 10,000 units.) And this, despite the prices jumping. A Series 62 four-door sedan, like our feature car, started at $2,359 in 1946, and increased to $2,553 for 1947-a nine-percent increase year-to-year. On the other hand, a series 75 Fleetwood five-passenger sedan started at $4,340-nearly double a Series 62, but only $42 more than a comparable 1946 model.
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