Showing posts with label Caballero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caballero. Show all posts

Friday, June 3, 2011

A couple comparison shots

Custom vs original and heavily optioned with radio, ashtrays, and lights

Two Caballeros and the first I've noticed with the different trim option

Pickup type cars, like the Ranchero.

http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/ terrific source

So we are all familiar with the Ranchero, and El Camino... but ever hear of Dodge making one? I just learned that GMC had one. 1983 Caballero Laredo. Why? El Camino didn't have a nice enough sound to it anymore? A Diablo? You have to believe how desperate they were with this one. An air dam for pete's sake, and no power to make this fast enough to need one. Click on the images for the full size, and read how pathetic the ad was.

I'd never heard of a Caballero, until I saw this at the Coronado annual car show, Orange and Isabella


Best of Show winner at the annual GoodGuys show.
Because the Century was considered the senior "small Buick", the model received GM's only hardtop station wagon, the Century Caballero, from 1957 through 1958. The Caballero's expensive tooling, plus its limited sales appeal, caused GM to abandon the hardtop station wagon body style going into its planned 1959 divisional-wide new design program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Century
The most remarkable part of this wagon is the wrap around rear window that raised up. Sorry i didn't take a picture of it now.