Bob & Ann have owned this car for the past 18 years and have driven it about 15,000 miles! It is a beautiful car still using the old right wheel drive configuration. It is a 5 passenger Touring car with the wider rear body & seat. The car is powered by a 4 cylinder engine with dual ignition, a Bosch high tension Magneto and a Delco single coil system. If everything is working right, with this system the car could be started without using the crank!

This model was introduced to the public in August of 1910, by the end of the model year 10,019 Cadillac's had been sold.

Right from the beginning, Cadillac had introduced new technical and styling to the automotive industry. They built their automobiles with the idea of a new system developed from the experiences of all previous makers. The faults and weaknesses of the old methods had been voided and a new ideal of motor travel developed that gave a perfect vehicle for comfort, speed, absolute safety, greatest durability, simplicity of operation, wide radius of travel and reliability under all road conditions. Cadillac’s many achievements included the famous one cylinder engine from 1902, introducing the first multi-4 cylinder engine in 1905, first American automobile to be awarded the Dewar Trophy in 1908 by the Royal Automobile Club of London for being the first to achieve interchangeability through standardization of parts-making the title, Cadillac “Standard of the World”.

Fisher Body Company built the closed bodies. The Touring body and the Coupe body were interchangeable with a Demi-Tonneau body to permit year round motoring. The 1911 engine was a vertical in line L head, four individual cast iron cylinders with copper water jackets. Displacement: 286.3 cubic inches, rated at 32.4-horse power, Carburetion: float feed Schebler, Model L. Bosch high-tension magneto and Delco single-coil system used for dual ignition. Selective sliding gear transmission 3 speed forward-1 reverse, right-hand drive, controls to right, shaft drive, 3 kinds of ratio rear ends, mechanical brakes on two wheels, foot-operated service brake, contracting type, lever-operated emergency brake, 10-and-12 spoke wood artillery wheels with quick-detachable rims . A front door was incorporated on open Cadillac bodies this year. The front door was found only on the left-hand side of the Touring and Torpedo Roadster. In addition, changes included a longer wheelbase lengthened, larger-diameter brake drums and a double-dropped frame. A new full-floating Timken axle was used. The Thirty also featured a torsion arm and two universal joints in the drive shaft, acetylene headlights, a gas generator, a tail light, gas sidelights, a horn, a tool kit, tire-repair equipment and a tire holder were standard. Options offered: seat covers, mohair tops, prest-o-lite style B tank, windshield, Jones electric horns, with storage battery. Total model year production sales were 10,019 automobiles.

The 1911 Cadillac automobiles were beautifully crafted in every way and finished off with brass fittings, lights, horns and well-detailed features. You really knew you were behind the wheel of something great by the ride and glamour of the Cadillac Automobile.

During Cadillac’s very early years, dealerships and Cadillac owners took it upon themselves by entering their automobiles as advertising stunts. This included many endurance races, hill climbing, climbing municipal building’s steps and even the Capitol steps in Washington, DC in 1904, plus other transcontinental races putting Cadillac above all the rest in its class.