1955 Cadillac Coupe de Ville .The American auto industry as a whole had a banner sales year in 1955, but few automakers were as pleased with the year’s outcome as Cadillac, which shipped a then-record 140,777 new cars. That total included 33,300 examples of the Coupe de Ville, which was part of the Series 62 line in 1955, a sales performance that cemented it as Cadillac’s second most-popular model. A Coupe de Ville was a huge automobile, riding on a 129-inch wheelbase and scaling in at more than

1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille Cadillac DeVille history: The name "DeVille" is derived from the French de la ville or de villemeaning "of the town". In French coach building parlance, a coupé de ville, from the French couper (to cut) i.e. shorten or reduce, was a short four-wheeled closed carriage with an inside seat for two and an outside seat for the driver and this smaller vehicle was intended for use in the town or city (de ville). An (unshortened) limousine or (in the United States) town car h