Not Restored — Brand New: China Is Building The 1959 Cadillac You Grew Up With All Over Again!

The tallest tail fins ever put on a production car. Twin rocket tail lights. Chrome from nose to tail. The 1959 Cadillac was the peak of American confidence on four wheels — and General Motors walked away from it more than sixty years ago. Now a small company in Beijing is building it again. Brand new. Not restored. In this documentary: how a WWII fighter plane, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, inspired Harley Earl and Frank Hershey to put the first fins on the 1948 Cadillac; how the fin war with Chrysler pushed Cadillac to the extreme in 1959; the Ghostbusters Ecto-1; how the fins disappeared, the oil crisis, the Cimarron and the crown Cadillac lost to Mercedes and BMW; how China became Cadillac's biggest market in 2017 — and then started walking away; and the story of FullGood Motor (formerly Songsan Motors), the Beijing motorcycle club that built the SS Dolphin, the Summer bus and the Rocket, a 1959 Cadillac look-alike with a General Motors plug-in hybrid engine underneath. And why FullGood is heading to the Los Angeles Auto Show to make its debut in the United States. Would you put a brand new, Chinese-built 1959 Cadillac in your driveway? Tell me in the comments. If you love the cars you grew up with, subscribe and hit the bell. 00:00 The Car That Came Back From 1959 02:15 A Fighter Plane And A Crazy Idea 05:21 The Year The Fins Touched The Sky 08:45 The Night The Fins Disappeared 10:58 Cadillac's Chinese Lifeline 13:31 The Motorcycle Club That Built A Cadillac 17:12 Now It's Coming To America Thumbnail photo: "1959 Cadillac Series 6200" by Greg Gjerdingen from Willmar, USA — CC BY 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... 1959 cadillac, cadillac tail fins, cadillac series 62, cadillac eldorado 1959, classic cars, american classic cars, cars of the 50s, harley earl, tail fins history, ecto-1, fullgood motor, songsan motors, fullgood rocket, chinese classic cars, china builds classic cars, brand new classic cars, retro cars china, la auto show 2026, cadillac history, general motors history #Cadillac #ClassicCars #1959Cadillac #ChinaCars #AmericanClassics