cool looking fat fender 34 LaSalle

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/02/lasalle-series-50-convertible-coupe-1934.html

The Cadillac and LaSalle gigantic rooftop neon billboard and timeclock on the Hotel Wolverine. The billboard seen from a great distance away even in the already well-lit Detroit nighttime skyline.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10234308866776946&set=pcb.25127288503587424

1927 LaSalle grill design from patent to production. Harley Earl signed the Patent application, lower left of the drawing

https://www.flickr.com/photos/carlylehold/page145

1940 LaSalle Woodie Station Wagon

https://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/car_spotters_guide_usa_1940

1937 LaSalle found in barn in South Africa before and after

Parked in a barn in 1985, and then things were piled on it for 20 years, then 7 years of trying to get the old guy to sell it... and finally, it's out of cool car jail and into the hands of someone that's going to get it driving again. That was 7 years ago. http://www.cadillaccountryclub.com/blog/1937-cadillac-lasalle-in-south-africa/

Aretha's hearse, a 1940 carved side La Salle, is something that has been around, and carried not just a few history makers. Rosa Parks also was carried in it.

Swanson Funeral Home's 1940 Cadillac LaSalle hearse

For the last 50 years, it's been reserved at Swanson Funeral Home for some of the Motor City's most stately send-offs.

The ivory hearse carried Rosa Parks in 2005, when the pallbearers pushed the antique vehicle with all their might on the final stretch toward the civil rights hero's grave at Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery. It transported the Temptations baritone David Ruffin in 1991 and Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops in 2008.

Swanson was two years out of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science when he founded the funeral home in 1958. He said he bought the hearse several years later, knowing it was a treasure the moment he saw it. The LaSalle brand ended production in 1940, making Swanson's hearse one of the last of the model.

"I guess I have a liking for vintage cars - classic cars," he said. "We've been very attentive to it over the years."

As Swanson built the business, his funeral home grew to become a "Detroit institution that has shepherded thousands of residents far above and beyond 8 Mile and guided families and communities through their grief," as the Detroit Free Press described it in 2005, ahead of Parks' funeral. Over the years, the Free Press reported, Swanson has provided scholarships to low-income students and donated to churches and various civic organizations.

The funeral home has even attracted good deeds from Franklin herself. Linda Swanson, the funeral home's vice president, told the Associated Press that Franklin would often pay for the funeral expenses of needy families - often "in full without being asked or prompted to do so."

https://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/08/aretha_franklins_last_ride_wil.html

thanks Gary!

1938 LaSalle of Brando Massei

Matt Hummel, 1940 Cadillac LaSalle, La Carrera Panamericana

1936 LaSalle coupe scored though persistence!

Story at http://barnfinds.com/1936-cadillac/

this is great, a visual guide from 1939 to the most common cars of the time

Original drawings from George Sheppard, then reproduced in 1939 by Colliers Weekly magazine
but I found this on my favorite site, http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com because Nik finds the coolest stuff and shares it!

LaSalle at the Desert Classic Concours D'Elegance

car and planes

 1927 LaSalle

 1928 Stutz Black Hawk Indy racer of Tony Gulotta

and airmail.

Found on The Old Motor.com http://theoldmotor.com/

Great 1940 LaSalle stood apart from the Fords and Chevys at the Primer Nats due to it's design

just a small example of the extra lengths that LaSalle went to, to make each piece the owner would use a bit better designed than the ordinary car.

Goodguys Del Mar 2010, The Dominator LaSalle, a 35 Ford, stretched T bucket, and the GTX and Packard from SEMA