Monday, January 25, 2016

1955 LaSalle II Show Cars


Two Showcases for the V-6 Experiment


Text by David W. Temple


Photos from author’s files



A particularly unusual part of the history of the GM Motorama show cars can be found in a pair dubbed LaSalle II. Named after Cadillac’s companion marque, last produced in 1940, these cars were created at the time V8s were extremely popular with the motoring public. Increasingly greater horsepower was being achieved with growing cubic inches, higher compression ratios, multiple carburetion, etc., and this did not seem to be the time to…



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1955 LaSalle II Show Cars

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