In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

The city center is in fact only one block from Lake Cadillac and, by docking at the public docks, is as nearly accessible by boat as it is by car.

* Cadillac, a General Motors luxury car brand

Designed for professional car use, the rear of the Cadillac commercial chassis was considerably lower than the passenger car frame, thereby lowering the rear deck height as well for ease of loading and unloading.

Their 1938 Cadillac Model 75 ( a full size Cadillac Series 70 V-8 car ) was driven by Private First Class Horace L. Woodring ( 1926 – 2003 ), who had not been the driver who drove Patton through the war.

At 11: 45 near Neckarstadt ( Mannheim-Käfertal ), shortly after Patton's car had stopped for a train and accelerated after its passing, a 2½ ton GMC truck driven by Technical Sergeant Robert L. Thompson ( 1925 – 1994 ) made a left turn in front of Patton's Cadillac at an uncontrolled intersection, and without anyone seeing the truck make a turn signal.

General Motors purchased the company in 1909 and within six years, Cadillac had laid the foundation for the modern mass production of automobiles by demonstrating the complete interchangeability of its precision parts while simultaneously establishing itself as America's premier luxury car.

Cadillac is the first American car to win the prestigious Dewar Trophy from the Royal Automobile Club of England, having successfully demonstrated the interchangeability of its component parts during a reliability test in 1908 ; this spawned the firm's slogan " Standard of the World.

for example the humorous Bruce Springsteen song Pink Cadillac uses a pink Cadillac car as a metaphor for a woman's vagina.

While new car buyers could buy a Cadillac for that price, the Bonneville raised new interest in what Pontiac now called " America's No. 1 Road Car.

A common opinion of the car is that in stock form it is somewhat underpowered, and a variety of solutions have been implemented, from complete engine swaps ( either to a larger PRV engine, or to completely different engines such as the Cadillac Northstar engine ), turbocharger kits ( single or twin-turbo ), down to simpler solutions such as improved exhausts and other normal engine tuning work.

Packard abandoned the luxury car market, relinquishing the market to Cadillac.

Until the 1910 introduction by Cadillac of the United States ' first closed-body car, the convertible was the primary body style.

Priest's car is a 1971 customized Cadillac Eldorado.

Cadillac revived the V16 concept in 2003 with a General Motors concept car, the Cadillac Sixteen.

On 23 May 2011, the 2005 model Cadillac presidential state car was involved in an incident when it got stuck on a ramp as it exited the U. S. Embassy during an official visit by President Obama.

Some car manufacturers may nonetheless choose to use the word coupé ( or coupe ) to describe such a model ( e. g., the Cadillac Coupe de Ville ).

Cadillac's first car was completed on October 17, 1902, the 10 horsepower ( 7 kW ) Cadillac.

In that form, the J2 proved a highly competitive international race car for 1950, most frequently powered by 331 cubic inch Cadillac engines.

He worked first as a car salesman for Horgan Ford, then later as a Cadillac salesman in New York to fund his studies.

Despite some bad reviews by the automotive press, the public took to the car, with some 7, 000 built during the remainder of the 1968 model year, and another 23, 858 cars for the 1969 model year, a respectable showing ; Lincoln had always trailed Cadillac in production numbers, but the Mark III almost equalled the Eldorado, which tallied 23, 333 for 1969.

The facts were almost identical to Cadillac a year earlier: a wheel from a wheel manufacturer was sold to Buick, to a dealer, to MacPherson, and the wheel failed, injuring MacPherson.

Bare Cadillac chassis could be purchased if a buyer insisted, but the intention was that few would do so. Flamboyant Cadillac dealer in England namely Lendrum & Hartman, ordered two such chassis in even rarer right hand drive ( RHD ) and had Van den Plas ( Belgium ) build a sports sedan ( Eng # 702298, which was successfully shown in various concourse de elegance events in Europe before being bought by the young Nawab of Bahawalpur ); and a limousine ( engine # 702299 ).

In a retro step, Cadillac entered a replica of the 1954 Series 62 coupe that a Colorado Springs dealer loaned to " five ordinary guys from Chicago ", in order to revive a half-century old duel with Lincoln.

Earl Automotive Works was bought by Cadillac dealer Don Lee, who kept Harley Earl as director of its custom body shop.

* Died: Lou Peters, Cadillac dealer from Lodi, California, whose cooperation with the FBI led to the conviction of organized crime leader Joe Bonanno earlier in the year.

Cases in which there is some likelihood that at least a partial inspiration has been located include " The Death Car ," traced by Richard Dorson to Michigan, United States ; " the Solid Cement Cadillac " and the possible origin of " The Hook " in the 1946 series of Lovers ' Lane murders in Texarkana, Texas, USA.

Etheridge quit the band in January 1970, and was replaced by Michael " Cadillac " Johnson ; Johnson was replaced by Dusty Hill the following month: The finalized lineup of ZZ Top performed their first show on February 10, 1970 in Beaumont, Texas.

For example, the General Motors factory in Arlington, Texas where rear-wheel-drive cars were built, such as the Chevrolet Caprice, Buick Roadmaster, and Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham was converted to truck and SUV production, putting an end to full-size family station wagon and overall terminating production of rear-wheel drive full-size cars.

* 1974: Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo, Texas.

The Big Texan Steak Ranch is known for its Cadillac white stretch limos with longhorn hood ornaments, one of which appears in the 2006 animated film Cars as Texas oil baron Tex Dinoco.

Museum District funding includes approximately $ 1. 5 million in Hotel Occupancy Tax funds from the City of Houston and the Houston Arts Alliance ; contributions from all participating museums ; foundation support from The Houston Endowment, Inc .; The John P. McGovern Foundation ; The Wortham Foundation, Inc .; The Brown Foundation, Inc .; Susan Vaughan Foundation, Inc .; and corporate support from KHOU-TV Channel 11, KUHT-TV ( PBS ), the Houston Chronicle, Texas Monthly, Exxon, and Cadillac.

* Malcolm Duncan, former owner of Duncan Buick Cadillac in Waco, Texas ; educational philanthropist through MAC Scholarships.

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U. S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were ( when originally installed during 1974 ) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line ( most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of mid twentieth century Cadillacs ; the tailfin ) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

After receiving a Dallas Cowboys welcome in Texas, stops were made at the Cadillac Ranch ; Santa Ana, New Mexico ; the Grand Canyon ; and Las Vegas, Nevada before the final stop at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills where Hugh Hefner and Playmates awarded trophies.

The latter is a large north-to-south mountain range with many fin-backed jagged peaks, a reference to the famous Cadillac Ranch sculpture in Amarillo, Texas.

USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, " The card playing is well-staged, and even those who don't know a Texas hold -' em (" the Cadillac of poker ") from a Texas hoedown will get a vicarious charge out of the action ".

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After the discontinuing of the Custom Cruiser's siblings, the Chevrolet Caprice and Buick Roadmaster in 1996, the GM factory in Arlington, Texas was converted for use building the Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon, and later, the Cadillac Escalade.

While driving a stolen Cadillac he plans to sell to his chop-shop contact, Vincent discovers via a cassette that in the trunk is a secret prototype fuel injector for jet, which is to be delivered to a rival industrialist in Houston, Texas in exchange for five million dollars.

The town is intent on giving Rane a hero's homecoming, and at a grand celebration, he is presented with a red Cadillac and 2, 555 silver dollars-one for every day he was a captive plus one for luck-by the ' Texas belle ' Linda Forchet ( Linda Haynes ), who has worn his ID bracelet since he left.

Gregory Wayne " Cadillac " Anderson ( born June 22, 1964 in Houston, Texas ) is a retired American professional basketball player.