An article in D Magazine from August 1981 caught my attention. In it, a GM dealer said “If you’re really concerned about safety, you should just get a ’68 Cadillac and say to hell with the newer cars.”
The reasoning was that a 1968 Cadillac was physically larger than a then-new 1981 model, and any defects it had would have been fixed and recalled long ago. In addi...