I admit it: I’m suffering from a silly infatuation with Broughamness. Every American car manufacturer (and a few Japanese ones) slapped Brougham emblems on a wide variety of vehicles during the Brougham Era, which we’ll call 1968 through 1992, and the last hurrah for Detroit Broughams was the car that I found in a Denver self-serve wrecking yard yesterday. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1980s, 1988, 1988 Cadillac Brougham, brougham, Brougham d'Elegance, Cadillac, Cadillac Fleetwood, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, fleetwood, junkyard, Junkyard Find
Tagged as 1980s, 1988, 1988 Cadillac Brougham, brougham, Brougham d'Elegance, Cadillac, Cadillac Fleetwood, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, fleetwood, junkyard, Junkyard Find
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