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Here are excerpts and unpublished photos from the articles you can look forward to in the August 2010 issue of The Self-Starter, the award winning publication of the Cadillac & LaSalle Club:

Caddie Shack
by Steve Stewart

The Sixties

This issue of The Self-Starter is dedicated to the 1960 Cadillac and many fine examples are represented. A university professor holding a chair in Contemporary Culture might say that, in the U.S., the '60s have come to represent more of an epoch than a mere decade. Certainly, what greeted us the morning of Jan. 1, 1960, was much different from what we bid farewell to on Dec. 31, 1969...

La Galeria
1960 Eldorado Seville 6437
Francene Flesch
Guilford, Conn.

I've loved cars since I was 10 years old. There have been many in my life. I had never considered a Cadillac; always thought they were out of my range...

The rarest '60
Story and photos by Ed Pentesco

The rarest 1960 Cadillac is the Eldorado Brougham, as only 101 were built. Bodies were made by hand in Turin, Italy, by Pininfarina and installed on stock chassis' shipped from Detroit. Then the completed vehicles were shipped back to the United States...

50th Anniversary 1960 CADILLAC
By Bob Crimmins
Most illustrations compiled by Joe Scott and courtesy Cadillac Motor Division

Flip Wilson was famous for his statement, "Here come de judge." Mine is, "There go the fins."

The International Scene
By Dirk Van Dorst
Seville 'bustleback': A European opinion

Back in the early '80s, I accompanied my grandfather (a private driver) every Saturday to his job washing the boss' private car park. Arriving, a new bustleback Seville Elegante, in a light beige color combination, was in the garage. This car was for "Madame," meaning it would be driven by the lady's chauffeur...

Museum Corner
by Paul Ayres
Gilmore Car Museum-here we come!

Now that the site for the new Cadillac-LaSalle Club Museum and Research Center building at the Gilmore Car Museum has been selected, and architectural and fundraising plans are under way, we have accepted Gilmore's invitation to lease the carriage house on its grounds as our temporary home there...

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