I've been chasing the final piece in the puzzle for the details of the dealership our Cadillac came from.
I'd been told, it was purchased in L.A. and then driven home to Hanford Ca., but that's a long way to go to special order a car.
I obtained the build sheet for the car, but the Heritage Centre still couldn't give the final info.
I got onto a guy in the states who could decipher the outlet code and got the following.
Quote: ""For 1964 model year, 765019 represents Visalia Motor Sales, 212-214 East Acequia Street, Visalia, California.
The business name and address are from a 1964 telephone directory.
The outlet code itself is the result of the late Matt Larson's work for GM Heritage Center. GM's contractor, Allied-Vaughn,
may not have remembered to check Matt's notes when you inquired. They have that outlet number and its connection to
Visalia, but probably not the street address. Matt found the number in a MY1963 document relating to a special request
order that named the city, if not also the dealer. Visalia is relatively close to Hanford, more or less due east of Hanford."" Unquote.
In actual fact, its only 33.1 miles from the Dealership to the owners address back in 1964 and this final bit of information, means I have the complete history of our car from day #1 to the present time.
I also found this interesting....the car that followed ours off the assembly line was a sister car in so many ways.
Our car: 64 M 106761...64 Fleetwood Sixty Special, Aspen white, turquoise interior.
Next car: 64 M 106762...64 Fleetwood Sixty Special, Aspen white, light blue interior.
Out of all the Deville's and the rest, it would've looked very cool seeing two gleaming white, top end Fleetwood's, end to end coming off the line.
I'd pay good money for a photo of that.
