Is there an American car more mythologized than the pink Cadillac? From Aretha Franklin’s Freeway of Love to Bruce Springsteen’s Pink Cadillac to the film of the same name starring Clint Eastwood, the pink Cadillac is like a rolling metaphor for the American Dream in the middle of the 20th Century. It’s a living testament to suburban bliss, the open highway, and the post-war economic boom. Now ask yourself, have you ever actually seen one in real life?
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