A lot of the songs from the 50’s and 60’s used the term “pink Cadillac” in the lyrics. Was this a euphamism for “vagina”?
And why pink Cadillac? Why not pink Buick, or pink Studebaker??
I think pink Edsel might have been more appropriate, based on the shape of the grill.
Don’t know if its a euphimism or not, but if it is it seems pretty obvious to me why it’d be a Caddy and not a Studebaker. Back then a Caddy was pretty much the ultimate car to own, whereas a Stude, for example was a good, reliable working man’s car.
Wow, invent a connetion and then critique it. I understand the Liberty Lobby works this way.
If the song had included references to a pink Cadillac and a pink garage, you might have some sexual elements in play. On its own, a pink Cadillac is more of a phallic symbol than a vaginal one, and it certainly wouldn’t be the first or only use of a big car as a manliness metaphor. The Cadillac was just a big car that marked your success in the post-war North American economy. Check out the movie Tin Men, where Caddies play a small but important supporting role.
I remember my father owning a Cadillac in the mid-seventies. It was convertable and damn cool in its own right. I think it was grey, though.
Well part of it is an Elvis reference, he said that he would buy a pink Cadillac convertible after he made it big, and he did…I guess we should have been able to foresee his future decline cause he wanted to buy such a visible symbol of conspicuous consumption.
Keith
Oooooh, you are such a bunch of sillies !!!
Am I the only one who understands that a Pink Cadillac is nothing more or less than the calling card of one of America’s most infamous salespeople, the Mary Kay Cosmetics Ladies ???
Vaginas, indeed. Why, I never !!!
Cartooniverse
I’ll take a Little Red Corvette any time.
Also, would you REALLY want to try to work “pink Studebaker” into your song liyrics? “Cadillac” is far more euphonious. Edsel’s became an immediate joke - nobody would have made up any songs except novelty songs about them.
BTW, “Studillacs” were created, too, by dropping a Caddy engine into the lightweight Studebaker.
I keep driving by a house with a '59 caddy in need of restoration parked out front - IMO, the '59 embodied the ultimate excesses of automotive styling of the era - so utterly grotesque that it’s somehow appealing. And, by God, here’s a pink one:
So, uh, yabob. They don’t have a For Sale sign on that car by any chance, do they?
If you were a close friend of Elvis and he was having a real good day and thought of you…
there might be a pink Caddy sitting in your driveway. And this was way before Mary Kay started selling cosmetics.
…and Padeye scoops my input. I’d rather do a little red Corvette any day!
I like that Springsteen song about a pink cadillac.
And when I saw the OP, I was dead certain it was about Aretha Franklin’s 1993 FREEWAY OF LOVE with lyrics about “riding on the freeway of love in my pink cadillac” which, yep, is about as straight up a euphamism as the “little red corvett”
Nope. It’s sitting in the driveway, and looks like it might actually be in running condition. It needs a paint job and so on.
Parking the pink Cadillac was a jokey euphemism at my school for sex.
They have schools for sex in the UK?
Cool!
