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Indeed if you provide me precise criteria I can rename easily batch of vehicles.
Either just based on model/name/body type, or with year ranges.
For "de Ville" vs "DeVille", no idea what is correct.
The original French word used in automobile world (not only Cadillac) was "coupé de ville" which means "city coupe", they derived their model names from there I suppose ("sedan de ville" has no meaning, nor has "de ville" alone, except being city-related)
Either just based on model/name/body type, or with year ranges.
For "de Ville" vs "DeVille", no idea what is correct.
The original French word used in automobile world (not only Cadillac) was "coupé de ville" which means "city coupe", they derived their model names from there I suppose ("sedan de ville" has no meaning, nor has "de ville" alone, except being city-related)
Cadillac is part of the problem when IDing the de Villes (or is it DeVilles?). If you look at the brochures from the mid-1960s, they will switch between spellings.
The best that I could make out is that until 1967, there was a space between De and Ville. A small-d was used with Coupe and Sedan, as in "Coupe de Ville". The capital-D was used when describing the series in general and for the convetible.
Starting in 1968, there was no space between De and Ville, but the same rules applied, (Coupe deVille or DeVille series). But sometimes the brochures include a space.
In 1983, the space re-appeared, but the badges look the same as 1982.