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Just to make sure, are you using model years or actual years?
Here it says they dropped the 60 Special name in 1975 (I presume it means model year 1975): http://motorera.com/cadillac/cad1970/CAD75B.htm Is this right or wrong? And here http://motorera.com/cadillac/cad1970/CAD71-60.HTM it says from 1971 only the Brougham was the only available model in this range.
Here it says they dropped the 60 Special name in 1975 (I presume it means model year 1975): http://motorera.com/cadillac/cad1970/CAD75B.htm Is this right or wrong? And here http://motorera.com/cadillac/cad1970/CAD71-60.HTM it says from 1971 only the Brougham was the only available model in this range.
Interesting, I did some more research and it appears my Cadillac book lied to me
Note how by 1974 the glossy color pictures in the brochures omitted the 60 Special, but it still existed way in the back with the specs. And then just for good measure I flipped through my 1976 Shop Manuel and lo-and-behold it’s still called a Fleetwood 60 Special Brougham. I guess we should probably follow the shop manual as that was printed by the service department and not the marketing people.For ones from the years before "60 Special" was dropped, should "Brougham" go in the extra info?
In 1965 Brougham would be extra info, but from 66-70 the vinyl roof examples were actually a separate model from the steel roofed base 60 Special.
Some Cadillacs on this site are listed as "Series 60 Special". Was it ever "Fleetwood Series 60 Special" or is that superfluous? (like saying "Fleetwood Series 75" instead of Fleetwood 75)
When introduced in 1938 Cadillac didn’t really have model names as we recognize them today. Everything was defined by series number, the difference being the wheelbase. It was always marketed to some degree as “body by Fleetwood” and by the 50s most people would refer to it as Fleetwood. My sources give conflicting information as to when the model was officially considered a Fleetwood 60 Special and not a Series 60 Special, but Cadillac’s sales brochures use 1957. 1956 I have a friend with a 1956 60 Special and next time I stop by his garage I’ll look to see if the word Series is written anywhere on the car. He’s owned it since 1958 and almost always refers to it as simply a Fleetwood.
On a related subject; 1957 also seems to be the year the long wheelbase models became Fleetwood 75s instead of Series 75.
Also with the DeVille models, which years was it Coupe de Ville/Sedan de Ville instead of Coupe DeVille/Sedan DeVille?
The DeVille vs. de Ville is something of an embarrassment to me. I believe the proper spelling is de Ville and most of Cadillac’s literature would agree, but I can never remember to spell it that way. Maybe someone who speaks French would be able to clear up the grammatically correct way. Antp?