Vermont Cadillac Parade Shatters Record
We reported last week that Barton, VT was hosting an attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records’ record for the largest parade of Cadillacs previously set at 102 by a group in the Netherlands in 2002. Not only did they beat the record, they almost tripled it.
On Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 298 Cadillacs cruised through the small northern Vermont town on their way to a World Record. The parade was led by a pink 1959 Series 62 Cadillac convertible from New Brunswick, Canada driven by Brenda and Rick Goguen.
Barton, Vermont is home to Henry M. Leland, the inventor of the Cadillac and developer of the V8 engine. Henry M. Leland founded the Cadillac Motor Company in 1902. His initial philosophy was to build a car whose parts were 100 percent interchangeable. Leland’s wisdom and precise work was demonstrated in 1908 when Cadillac won the coveted Dewar trophy for interchangeability of manufactured parts in Brooklands, England after members of the Britain Royal Automobile Club picked three new Cadillac’s at random, dismantled and shuffled the parts before reassembling them. All three cars then ran the 500-mile Brooklands course without any issues.
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