(May 22, 2011) If you have a Cadillac in working order you can help the folks in Barton, Vermont. They have organized a Cadillac parade to take place on Aug. 17 and need at least 103 cars driving single file from the high school to the county fairgrounds.

If they can accomplish this goal they will earn a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest Cadillac parade.

Barton's tie to the Cadillac brand stretches all the way back to the turn of the 20th Century. Henry Leland, founder of Cadillac, was born in Barton — now with a population of 2,800 — and lived there until he was about 13. He might have lived there longer, but his dad lost the family farm in a bad deal and moved the family to Massachusetts.

Lorie Seadale, the originator of the Cadillac parade idea and the primary move and shaker behind the parade, says they also need donations. The fee for Guinness to verify the record, which includes expenses for the Guinness adjudicator who will travel to Barton from New York.

In an effort to elicit a donation from General Motors, Seadale says GM will get naming rights for the 145-year-old fairgrounds grandstand.

"It would be fun to be the New Standard for the World for a parade of Cadillacs," brand spokesman Brian Corbett, invoking the Cadillac slogan, told the Detroit News. "It's the grassroots marketing we're really trying to emphasize these days."

On the county fairgrounds web site, parade organizers say they have landed a pink Cadillac convertible to take part in the parade.

More information and an entry form can be found on the Vermont's Orleans County Fair News Blog.