I wonder if the made hood crowns for a Peugeot 404?
Vintage PR Shot: 1973 Cadillac Eldorado With Del Cabellero Hood Crown – How To Attract Hot Young Women
– Posted on August 20, 2022
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I wonder if the made hood crowns for a Peugeot 404?
Not a bad composite job from the days before Photoshop. They did a nice job with her hair. Either that, or removing her legs which would otherwise be visible behind her head.
Or maybe she’s just an anatomical wonder. 🙂
Ah, the days of flipping through the JC Whitney catalog.
I’ve sometimes wondered if those tacky auto hood crowns were the inspiration for gold tooth ‘grilles’ that were a short-lived fad for a while. At least I haven’t seen one for sometime (thankfully).
I’d take a saucy redhead and a green vintage Caddy right about now.
I love older auto ads and how many could be both classy and a little sexy at the same time. All we see today in car ads is vehicles racing down a path or through sand and roaring engine sounds with dirt and gravel flying all over.
As for that hood crown? No way no how. I’ve never liked when people (IMO) ruin a beautiful Cadillac with after-market junk.
I could never find appeal in the kustom work of George Barris. I had to look up the Del Cabellero Cadillac. The hood crown appeared even tackier. With a Cadillac crest added, with an unattractive hood ornament.
The model sporting the very 70s long flowing hair, and the ‘no eyebrow’ look, popularized again later by Madonna during her ‘Deeper and Deeper’ era.
Designer Bill Mitchell hated people adding junk to his designs. He derisively referred to dealer added, after market half landau tops as “pig bladders!” On the other hand he had Cadillac add a “Grille cap” to the original 70’s Seville, as customers felt that the original grille was just too plain.
I never thought the first-gen Seville looked right except with the original 1976 eggcrate grille and no shiny cap above it. Unfortunately, all ’76 Sevilles had a vinyl top, out of necessity to hide the seam created by welding an extension to the Nova roof. ’77-79 Sevilles had a bespoke roof that allowed it to go bare.
Not a fan of knife-edge dagmars. Can’t comment on hers.
I have a feeling I’ve seen those headlight surrounds somewhere else…
Oh , come on guys! I’m talking about the car! 😉
At first I thought she was the hood crown! I had to look hard to notice the difference on the car. They could have chosen a better colour to highlight their visual tombstone.
Hood crowns are an essential piece of kit for a pimp mobile.
None of these features you all mentioned on the ’73 Eldorado were ever much of an inspiration to hot young Babes. Simply a way to show them that they be treated right by their man because he was loaded.
…the onl “hot young women” thar would have been attracted to this Eldorado with the hideous grille csp would have been hookers looking for their pimp’s car…
…these after-market, like a grotesque set of Texas Longhorns were designed for that heavily ego-driven buyer. for whom the standard level if chrome trim just wasn’t wiite enough…
… the REAL “hot girls” were wearing “barely there” denim cuttoffs as part if their “Daisy May” ( leaving little to the imagination) outfits; and their boyfriends would be those auto shop toiughs with their souped up ‘57 Chevies, Shaker hood hemi-‘Cudas and hood scooped Mustangs and Camaros…
…these big, bulky, wheezing 500cid Eldos would be their grampas’ cars…
…which planet did you grow up on, anyway????
…which planet did you grow up on, anyway????
The one where sarcasm is a thing. Obviously not the same one as you.
Where can I get one???
Does anyone have one for sale?
The plumped up velour-textured back seats of specifically late 70’s disco-era Cadillacs is where all memories of erotic reveries and bodily fluids remain.