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Traditional Coachworks Ltd. - 1975-77 - Chatsworth, California

Traditional Coachworks Ltd. - 9344 N. Oso St., Chatsworth, California

1975 Cadillac Mirage Pickup one of 234 made

also made an Eldorado with Town Car roof called the Coupe de Roi.

Their wagons were called the Mirage Sports Wagon and Castilian Fleetwood Estate Wagon

Traditional Coachworks (USA) Custom Cadillac pick-ups and station wagons. A pickup was sold at a Kruse auction in Fort Worth, TX [lot #354], in April 2000. It was bid up to $2,700. The ad said that only 240 were ever built.

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Year: 1976
CADILLAC (Mirage Sports Wagon and Castilian Fleetwood Estate Wagon), "Traditional CoachWorks, Ltd.: Conversions Complementary to Cadillac Standards": 6 page color folder, 4x9. Cover is photograph showing three-quarter frontal view of brown Cadillac Fleetwood Castilian Station Wagon conversion by Traditional Coachworks, Ltd., with country club style building in background. Folder opens to 11x9 layout with six photographs showing exterior and interior of Mirage Sports Wagon and Castilian Fleetwood Estate Wagon, with discussion. Reverse side has two additional full page photographs showing three-quarter rear views of models. Price: $15.

Year: 1976
CADILLAC (Eldorado [Prototype]), "Coupe de Roi by Traditional Coach Works, Ltd.": 8x10. Glossy photo rendering shows three-quarter frontal view of brown Cadillac El Dorado Coupe de Roi conversion by Traditional Coach Works Ltd. with cream color top and interior. Title is embossed in gold at bottom right corner. Price: $25.

Year: 1976/77
CADILLAC (Eldorado [Prototype]), "Coupe de Roi by Traditional Coach Works, Ltd.": 8x10. Glossy photo rendering shows three-quarter rear view of blue Cadillac El Dorado Coupe de Roi conversion by Traditional Coach Works Ltd. with white top and removeable roof panels suspended above car. Title is embossed in gold at bottom right corner. Price: $25.

Year: 1976/77
CADILLAC (Eldorado [Prototype]), "Coupe de Roi by Traditional Coach Works, Ltd.": Press photo, 8x10. Photograph is photo rendering which shows three-quarter rear view of Cadillac El Dorado Coupe de Roi conversion by Traditional Coach Works Ltd. with removeable roof panels suspended above car. Comes with silver and black Traditional Coach Works Ltd. business card. Price: $20.

For more information please read:

Beverly Rae Kimes - The Classic Car

Beverly Rae Kimes - The Classic Era

Beverly Rae Kimes - Packard: A History of the Motorcar and Company

Beverly Rae Kimes & Henry Austin Clark Jr. - Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942

Richard Burns Carson - The Olympian Cars

Raymond A. Katzell - The Splendid Stutz

Marc Ralston - Pierce Arrow

Brooks T. Brierley - There Is No Mistaking a Pierce Arrow

Brooks T. Brierley - Auburn, Reo, Franklin and Pierce-Arrow Versus Cadillac, Chrysler, Lincoln and Packard

Brooks T. Brierley - Magic Motors 1930

Nick Georgano - The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile: Coachbuilding