It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.

There was really no reason to refuse, and Linda Kay had never ridden in a Cadillac.

The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.

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 Cadillac court was willing to acknowledge that the case law supported exceptions for " an article dangerous in its nature or likely to become so in the course of the ordinary usage to be contemplated by the vendor.

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.

Cadillac became the county seat after the so-called " Battle of Manton ," in which a show of force was involved in enforcing a controversial decision to move the county seat from Manton, Michigan.

Two years later, the Clam Lake Canal was constructed between Big and Little Clam lakes, present-day Lakes Mitchell and Cadillac.

The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

The Wexford County seat of government, originally located in Sherman, was moved to Manton in 1881, as the result of a compromise between the feuding residents of Cadillac and Sherman.

When the sheriff returned to Cadillac, a force consisting of several hundred armed men was assembled ; this group reportedly included a brass band.

Cadillac was home to the Michigan Iron Works Company, which manufactured the Shay locomotive for a short time in the early 1880s.

Thirsty's, a gas station on M-55 west of Cadillac, was the home of Samantha or " Sam The Bear " from the 1970s through the late 1990s, when Sam died of old age.

In fact, Cadillac was chosen in 1988 to donate the Holiday tree to sit on the lawn of the U. S. Capitol building in Washington D. C.

Cadillac was incorporated as a city in 1877.

The class of 2006 was the largest class to go through Cadillac Public Schools.

Prior to 2001, the northern end of the freeway portion of US 131 was located at the southern entrance to Cadillac.

The former route of the highway through downtown Cadillac was redesignated as BUS US 131.

" In the hierarchy of nubbiedom, the supremely rewarding self-sacrifice was the loss of a right leg and a left arm, because, so the theory went, ' afterward, you could still write your name and still have a foot to press the gas pedal of your Cadillac.

A modern-day Cadillac hearse ; this one was used to transport the body of former US President Ronald Reagan during his Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan | state funeral

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.

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

The latest artistic project is the musical play The Pirate Queen by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Richard Maltby, Jr. and John Dempsey, which originally debuted at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre in October 2006, with American stage actor Stephanie J.

For a time, she was engaged to a Cadillac salesman named Val Hush, originally from Fruitvale, California.

1975-76 models had a mandatory vinyl top due to the fact that the roof section was originally tooled up in two parts ; the rear section around the C-pillar was pressed especially for Cadillac, and a regular X-body sedan roof pressing was used for the forward parts.

He had originally envisaged the design for Cadillac Division, as a new La Salle, " a baby Cadillac ".

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.

" 007 in New York " was originally titled " Reflections in a Carey Cadillac " and it contains a recipe for scrambled eggs which came from May Maxwell, the housekeeper to friend Ivar Bryce who gave her name to Bond's own housekeeper, May.

The pre-1987 engines had an oil filter adapter with 3 / 4 and 13 / 16 threads ( which used a GM oil filter common to Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Cadillac V8 engines ) while the 1987-06 engines were originally fitted with a 20 mm metric thread filter ( later revised in 1991 for the common 3 / 4 threaded Mopar and Ford V8 oil filter ).

Also, with Eldorado having joined the Sixty Special in 1963 as the only other non-limousine Cadillac bodied by Fleetwood, perhaps the addition of the Brougham script made things a little more consistent in nomenclature, for the Eldorado was originally only available as a convertible, and its later four-door sedan companion was denoted " Brougham ".

More conventionally named roadie Jack Slaughter and road manager Dylan Ferrero rounded out the crew and provided most of the driving of the " tour bus ", a Cadillac with 10-year-old expired license plates and a nasty predilection for going into a coma at the most inconvenient moment ( but, according to Friedman, her talent lay in her ability to stop on a dime and pick up the change ).

Cadillac Mountain, named after the French Explorer of the same name, is on the eastern side of the island.

Cadillac was founded in 1902 by Henry Leland, a master mechanic and entrepreneur, who named the company after his ancestor, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, the founder of the city of Detroit.

The Cadillac automobile was named after the 17th-century French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701.

The 35 landing beaches were all named for automobiles: Austin, Buick, Cadillac through Stutz, Winton, and Zephyr.

The two were linked by similarly themed names, both being named for French explorers — Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, respectively.

" TIME magazine named the car to its list of the 50 worst cars of all time, stating that the Cimarron represented " verything that was wrong, venal, lazy and mendacious about GM in the 1980s ... in flagrant insult to the good name and fine customers of Cadillac ," and that the car " nearly killed Cadillac and remains its biggest shame.

Steve comes to admire and respect the Mutes and falls in love with a ' straight ' ( mutation-free ) Mute named Clearwater and forges a bond of mutual respect with Mr. Snow's apprentice, Cadillac.

# Cloud Warrior ( 1983 ) This book opens with an examination of the character of a Mute named Cadillac, and his world-view.

Thus, for instance, a review like the one from USA News, named " Best luxury large cars of 2008 " ( see a link below ) has included only one large car ( Cadillac DTS ) and all others are really mid-size cars.

At the time, Holden's then Managing Director, an American named George Roberts, insisted that the HQ Holdens should " ride like a Cadillac " and that the front suspension be engineered to make the car prone to understeer for " safety reasons ".

This station is named for rue de Cadillac.

* Planet Unicorn-Fictional stories revolve around three talking unicorns-Feathers, Cadillac and Tom Cruise-who were created by an 8 year-old gay boy named Shannon.

* 1961 Cadillac " Jacqueline " Brougham Coupé ( named after Jacqueline Kennedy )

There is also a car theme with Lancia Drive, Lagonda Drive, Bugatti Drive, Mercedes Road, Maserati Drive and Peugeot Drive becoming main thoroughfares and Fiat, Ferrari, Cadillac, Ford, Alfa, Renault, Rambler, Vauxhall, Buick, Leyland, Delaunay, Daimler, Stutz, Morgan, Sunbeam Place, Pontiac Place, Chevrolet Place, Delage Place and Oldsmobile Place being named after cars too.