Cadillac Park Avenue

The Cadillac Park Avenue was a concept car that the Cadillac division of General Motors showed at the GM Motorama on 26 January 1954. It was a four-door hardtop sedan on the chassis of a Cadillac Sixty Special with a wheelbase of 3,378 mm. The Park Avenue was meant to test public taste for the hardtop models then being planned. The other parts of the car, such as the raised tailfins, the panoramic windows, the rocket-shaped bumper horns at the front and the simple round headlights, came from contemporary Cadillac production or from earlier concept cars. The only notable features were the non-functional air intakes on the rear doors, which came back in 1956 on the Eldorado Brougham Town Car concept.