Amongst enthusiasts, the 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor hearse is considered one of the most desirable due to its especially ornate styling and appearances in feature films, notably an ambulance version ( Ecto-1 ) in the movie Ghostbusters.

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.

Image: 1959 Cadillac hearse Janowiak funeral home Ypsilanti Michigan. JPG | 1959 Cadillac hearse, Ypsilanti, Michigan

He also crashed his 1959 Cadillac into the side of Springfield's Planet Hype restaurant ( which Marge mistook for a clever decoration ).

He has a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado that only plays one song and has hydraulics and also a parachute for some safety reasons ( as shown in the episode " Thelma and Luis " when Suga Mama and Papi accidentally drive it off the Grand Canyon and the parachute saves them ).

Cadillac Eldorado c. 1959, with zipper operable clear plastic rear window

1959 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham.

1959 Cadillac Eldorado Seville

The 1959 Cadillac is remembered for its huge sharp tailfins with dual bullet tail lights, two distinctive rooflines and roof pillar configurations, new jewel-like grille patterns and matching deck lid beauty panels.

* Cadillac Eldorado 1959 Review.

On September 25, 1959, Carfano and a female companion were found shot to death in his Cadillac automobile on a residential street in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Gradually the models became more sophisticated with the addition of such features as ' Glidamatic ' spring suspension and a detailed interior on the Renault Floride ( 222 ) in October 1959, and the fibre-optic style ' Trans-o-Lite ' illuminating lights system first seen on the Superior Ambulance on Cadillac Chassis ( 437 ) in October 1962.

1959 Cadillac Eldorado Seville

For 1959, the Electra and Electra 225 both used the General Motors C-body shared with the Oldsmobile 98 and all Cadillac, riding on a longer wheelbase than the B-body LeSabre and Invicta, both of which rode on.

All Oldsmobiles were completely restyled for 1959 with a longer, lower and wider body on the basic GM B-body, which for the first time was used on all of General Motors ' standard-sized cars from the lowest-priced Chevrolet to the most-expensive Cadillac.

Furthermore, the 1959 – 60 Continental Limousine and Town Car ( which had the same wheelbase as other Continentals but the same rear seat legroom as Lincoln due to the absence of the " breezeway " window ) are the heaviest American sedans without an extended wheelbase built since WW II, and the 1958 Continental convertible is the longest American convertible produced with the exception of the ( extremely rare ) 1934-37 Cadillac V-16 convertibles.

Jeffries worked on the design and initial fabrication for the Batmobile, using a 1959 Cadillac, but when the studio wanted the car faster than he could deliver, he turned it back to George Barris.

* Cadillac Cyclone, a 1959 concept car designed by Harley Earl and built by the Cadillac Division of General Motors.

The height of the tailfin era ; the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado

This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

he knows that he was never more popular than at the time of the Russo-American `` honeymoon '' of 1959.

Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.

In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

Beginning with the October 1959 issue of the Journal, the method of production of copy for photo-offset reproduction was changed from varityping to hot typesetting.

Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.

Net income was $2,557,111, or $3.11 per share on 821,220 common shares currently outstanding, as compared to $2,323,867 or $2.82 per share in 1959, adjusted to the same number of shares.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

Reflecting the largest percentage of high-end sets such as consoles and combinations since 1953, dollar value of home entertainment electronics in 1960 was about $1.9 billion, compared to $1.7 billion in 1959.

In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

In the observations at 4.3 mm ( Coates, 1959 ), the diameter of the antenna beam, 6'.7, was small enough to allow resolution of some of the larger features of the lunar surface, and contour diagrams have been made of the lunar brightness distribution at three lunar phases.

This patient was a 65-year-old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26, 1959, because of disabling weakness and general debility.

In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone marrow and controlling any hemolytic component, triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was begun on Sept. 26, 1958, and continued until Feb. 18, 1959.

Triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was resumed and maintained until Feb. 18, 1959.

On Feb. 12, 1959, purified corticotropin ( ACTH Gel ), 20 units daily intramuscularly, was started but had to be discontinued 3 weeks later because of excessive fluid retention.

The terminal hospital admission on June 27, 1959, was necessitated by continued weakness and debility complicated by urinary retention and painful thrombosed hemorrhoids.

Voting preparations began in the fall of 1959, although the actual demarcation and planning for the rural communes was completed in 1958.

The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.

World production of copra, the oil-bearing flesh of the coconut, was a little more than 3 million tons in 1959.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

But he was scholastically ineligible in 1959 and merely present last season.