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    Sound Your Horn

    Jul 27, 2020 4 minutes

    Cadillac LeMans memories

    A recent article in Old Cars about the Cadillac LeMans show cars built in 1953 jogged my memory of seeing one being driven in 1954.

    Many General Motors show cars were not drivable, so the sight of this car surprised me and aroused my interest. In 1954 I was a student at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and my memory is of seeing a , either silver or silver-blue in color, being driven and then parked near the Mechanical Engineering Building on campus. Seeing a GM show car driven there, some 250 miles from its home in Detroit, was very surprising. My asking disclosed that the owner was a Mr. James Goodman, whose son

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