In this picture, my fursona, Moyo Mongoose, has a 1959 Cadillac very much like the one Reginald Collindale Pitbull and his wife, Diana, in New Mexico owned in 1959 and until 1960.
It's not the same exact car Reginald and Diana owned though. On the night before Christmas Eve in 1960 on rural U.S. highway 54, their two teenage sons, Biff and Richie, with a teenage high school friend riding along, Gaston, all three whom have been drinking, wrecked Daddy and Mommy's 1959 Cadillac in a deadly high speed crash, flipping it and smashing it sideways around a power line pole at 124 mph. The pole was snapped like a matchstick with the top of it blocking the northbound lane of Highway 54. The wreck was a result of having a highway race with another teenager, Danny Otter, who was driving with his girlfriend, Lidia, and two teenage beaver friends riding along, Carl and Susan, in a 1958 Studebaker Goldenhawk (a factory supercharged, high performance car). After punching the brakes and swerving to avoid rear ending the Cadillac, and with tires screaming and smoking against the pavement at 140 mph, Danny Otter managed to struggle to keep his Studebaker under control long enough to bring it to a safe stop, though "on a wing and a prayer", and did not crash. A $100 bet was riding on that race...That's like $1,000 now days. Had Biff not lost control of Daddy and Mommy's 1959 Cadillac by abruptly swerving in the way of Danny's car at 124 mph trying to prevent Danny from passing him during that race 64 years ago, it too would be a classic car today. It takes a car 12 to 18 hours to go down an assembly line from start to completion. It took Biff Collindale Pitbull less than 15 seconds to destroy Daddy and Mommy's Cadillac, plus killing himself, his younger brother and their friend...Of course, that was 64 years ago.
On the flip side however...This 1959 Cadillac Moyo has was well maintained by it's previous owner who had purchased it when it was brand new. It had been garage kept, never been in an accident, had low mileage on it, and survived in mint condition over the past 65 years since it was new. When ever the car needed a replacement part, it's previous owner always insisted on GM original parts from the dealership parts department, and not from an aftermarket supplier. The previous owner also had the original bill of sale from when the car was new, along with the factory window sticker. Even the owner's manual was still in good condition. And the previous owner was never a smoker. In fact, the car looks and runs like it did when it was new.
