1930 CADILLAC V8 SERIES 353 ROADSTER



Engine No.

505192

Red with tan leather interior



Engine: V-8, 353ci, 95bhp at 3,000rpm; Gearbox: three-speed manual; Suspension: semi-elliptic leaf springs front and rear; Brakes: mechanical drums front and rear.

Left hand drive.



The Cadillac Motor Car Company came out of the ambition of Henry Martin Leland, born in 1843.

Leland was an enginerring purist like Henry Royce and when he rescued the Detriot Motor Company in 1902, he wanted to build quality cars.

He called the company Cadillac after the early French explorer of the Midwest.

In 1908, the company became part of GM and soon were leaders of that group.

In 1914 they introduced the world's first commercially successful V-8 engine which stayed into production in its first series until 1926.

Cadillac advertisements boasted that the engine had "liquid smoothness".



The 353ci.

V-8 used in the 1930 model was actually Cadillac's second generation V-8, having been introduced in 1927...