Based off my VIN, my Cadillac just turned 61 years old. Took it out for a nice cruise around southern Maryland.

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Comment by Jason Edge on November 15, 2024 at 8:23pm

It is crazy but when I brought my Coupe de Ville home in the fall of 1996 it was just 32 years old, going on 33 ....  might call it a middle aged car at that point.  You could find parts cars here and there, parked behind houses, in woods, or the occasional daily driver parked out front.
Now like me it is 60ish and ... and we will still call ourselves middle aged, right?... RIGHT!

Comment by john w. warner on November 15, 2024 at 8:06am

Happy birthday!

Comment by Chris Codd on November 12, 2024 at 11:15pm

Haha well that's on me. I had popped the date in my calendar not even thinking about it being built the year before. You can tell I don't purchase brand new vehicles. Very happy this old Cadillac is still putting along 61 years later and is somehow still more reliable than my other newer car. 

Comment by Jason Edge on November 12, 2024 at 10:37pm

That is a fantastic fall picture! We really need to do a full cover newsletter on your car next year.

As far as the cars birthday, Cadillac would have been well into the 1965 model year production this time in Nov 1964. Production usually runs form Sept to July with retooling in August.

If you look at your body plate on top of firewall, you will have 2 digits, denoting the month, followed by a letter denoting the week of month. 
For example 11B on a 1964 Cadillac would denote 2nd week in November of 1963, 11C would denote 3rd week, etc. I am guessing you are seeing 11B or 11C and thinking this was 1964, but is actually 1963.

Speaking of the 1964 Cadillac production, here is the last one to roll off the assembly line, #156,959 on July 8, 1964:

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