Cadillac LaSalle II Concept Cars
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Presentation Year: | 1955 |
Vehicle Expo: | GM Motorama |
Class : | Concept cars |
Body design : | Sedan , Roadster |
Engine: | gasoline V6 engine |
Length: | 4572 mm |
Height: | 1270 mm |
Wheelbase: | 2743 mm |
The Cadillac LaSalle II was a concept vehicle that introduced the Cadillac Division of General Motors at the 1955 GM Motorama. The name is reminiscent of the from 1927 to 1940 produced by Cadillac car brand LaSalle.
For the 1955 Motorama show season, a pair of LaSalle II shown, a roadster and four-door hardtop.
There was a roadster and a four-door hardtop Limousine the Bodywork was fiberglass like the upcoming 1956 Corvette, as a successor of the concept vehicles La Espada and Park Avenue. The shape, especially of the Roadster, was inspired by the new Chevrolet Corvette the hardtop was mounted on a 108-inch wheelbase while the smaller roadster had about eight inches less.
At the front, both cars had a grille below the waistline of wide, vertical chrome bars and on the sides of the vehicle a broad, colour-contrasting indentation, which extended from the front wheel cut to the front doors. Likewise, both vehicles had panoramic windows, which stretched between thin, bent back A-pillars. The rear doors of the hardtop sedan were struck behind. The far reaching into the roof windshield could be seen again in the production model Eldorado Brougham from 1959
Power for both came from an experimental overhead cam V6. The V6 engine had an aluminium engine block, overhead camshafts and mechanical intake manifold injection. All wheels were suspended individually and the brake drums were cast in the aluminium wheels.
