1954 Cadillac El Camino

Cadillac introduced a pair of two seaters at the 1954 Motorama, one was the Cadillac El Camino, the other the Cadillac La Espada. The Cadillac El Camino was 200” long, 51.5” high and 79.9” wide. It used a 230 horsepower V8 engine. Like many General Motors dream cars of the era, it had a bubble roof and quad headlights. The tailfin shape later appeared again on the 1955 Cadillac Eldorado convertible. Quad headlights, a fluted side panel and gull-wing bumpers with bullet tips were all standard Cadillac design elements the following year. The El Camino incorporated front and rear fiberglass roof saddles that supported the hand brushed aluminum top. The instrument panel was covered in gray leather, while the insert area behind the instrument dials was hand-brushed aluminum. Below the trunk was a spare tire compartment that was concealed by a hinged door.