Sixty8panther

Thanks Harley... you are always missed around here when you're absent. Threads like this make my day! Anyway, how 'bout s'more Cadillac porn: If this V16 Cadillac does not make your heart skip beats than there's no hope for you! Look at that hood... longer than a 2008 Yaris & under it the MIGHTY V16 ohv V16: check coach built, super sexy dual cowl phaeton body: check Cadillac build quality, fit & finish: check a mere poor people's V12 Banana Boat circa. 1932

Speaking of saving cars from the junkyard. There's a complete 1987 Mercedes Benz 560SEC (2DR HARDTOP!) at Holland's Junkyard w/ "only" 244,000 miles on the odometer but it supposedly runs drives & the whole bit. But they want $2500 for the damn thing. It's in ROUGH shape and would need some serious, serious TCL, cleaning, interior work etc. For about $1300 I'd be game though.

RWD for the masses! GM should have embraced that idea in like... 1987. Nothing sucks more about modern automotive industry than the fact that they try to force FWD down our collective throats. I wish to god Cadillac would make a TRUE competitor to the Mercedes Benz CLK hardtops! (not to mention CL)

Good one Harley! 1936 was a great year for Mopar too! $510 for a brand new Plymouth!?!? I'll take THREE please!

Just so no GMs get left out: 1936 LaSalle 1936 Oldsmobile 1936 Buick

1936 Chevrolet 1936 Pontiac 1936 Cadillac V16 fastback ---- 1936 was a great year for cars... that art deco era is just... it's like heaven on earth. The only thing cooler than the 1948-early 1970 era of hardtops is the 1929-1939 era of pre-war instant classics. Planned obsolescence never looked so good. Every year the cars were restyled/redesigned/recontoured/resculpted.... more aerodynamic, more fluid, wider, and then in the 1940s they all kind of lost it. The tall art-deco grilles of the mid 1930s is about Automotive pefection. Someday I'll save a rotted shell from the junkyard, cut down a 1996 B-body frame and make a mid 1930s hardtop using as many genuine pre-war parts as possible to make the ULTIMATE custom rat-rod.

Hardest to keep clean is black or anything within a shade of black. Dust, mud, soap-scum, pollen, salt, ANYTHING & EVERYTHING shows up. Easiest color to keep clean? Gold/Tan/Champagne metallic followed by silver & any other light metallic variant of sliver/graphite/pewter. Working at 4 different Chevy/Cadillac/GMC/Pontiac dealerships over the past 8 years has taught me that much for sure.

I was going to say "do the plugs/wires" but I think Toe's has the best suggestion yet.

Holy 'effin Krap That's horrific. Glad to say I have never witnessed anything like that. I hope both the people pull out and recover fully... although that;s not a realistic goal, they will both have messed up back muscles and spine for LIFE. (best case scenario)

Balthazar: Now you're just splicing atoms... I love Cadillac more than MB but dude, you can not discredit Benz & Daimler's contributions. Henry Leland got his interest in the automobile a decade after their 3-wheel "car" made history with the first internal combustion propelled horseless carriage.

What a coincidence: Tight Whips member no. 3 (Speeding Penguin) who is a commercial parts manager at a local Autozone just texted me about 2 hrs. ago to say: Now as far as bringing back the Metro, it would probably be 400 or so lbs. heavier due to all the extra safety requirements and therfore even SLOWER than before with way worse fuel economy. Some people would still buy it but then some people still buy Ford Rangers & VCRs.

I'd love to see someone pull off a (production) dual cowl phaeton in 2008.

That's it in a nutshell.... XP said it all.

I thought the Challenger was to be V8 only? Unless a manual is available the V6 will be ubber-lame.

How did Ford make money & GM loose? Ford is a lame duck!

Aiiight!

It was fall of 2005, I had been seeing this "orange-bronze-burgundy-metallic" '77 Olds all over the place for a few weeks. One day while crossing the bridge in my '86 Caddy Fleetwood we met half way. I just KNEW I was going to cross paths with that car. Sure enough a few days later it was on the front lawn of one of my neighbors' houses, I called XP and said "I know you're a snob and don't like four doors but there's this weird little Cutlass... just thought I'd run it by you..." A couple days later I took that pic. as XP bought the car off the Goth kid who owned it. I always loved the fall in New England, I've got hundreds of pictures like that with my cars & friends cars in the foreground. XP payed less money for that Cutlass than it would cost you to change your oil @ the local BMW dealership. It was a great deal, even for a cheesy 1970s four door A-body. We drove all over town in it that day, I took a short video of him doing a 3-alarm burnout in that little beast.... about 45 min. (I kid you NOT) before he checked the oil for the first tie and noticed it was about 2 quarts low. Gotta love 350-rocket motors. ----- I was also ROTFLMAO at the Camaro related ones of me. LOL Sean's '69 Camaro really was a freekin' torque-monster. He lifted the front wheels off the ground more than once! Too bad he sold it, I was the one who facilitated it through my eBay account.

2. The tail fin era... late forties till the mid 1960s for Cadillac 1961 is my FAVORITE, followed closely by 1959. 3. Cadillac is the ONLY brand in the world that consistently designs a car's rear end to be just as dynamic & engaging as the front. The Tail Fin Era is described as the only time in automotive history when the back of a car would grab your attention just as much if not more than the front... But Cadillac, having lost tail fins in 1965 after the sad downsizing of 1962 to 1964, kept spicing up the rear of its cars, there were many other interesting one of a kind rear ends to come in the coming decades. Razorbacks, Bustlebacks, the full width CHiMSL comprised of LEDs that graced the '92-up Sevilles... To this day Cadillac designs an ASS that gets noticed.

Coolest brand in the world, richest history bar none (except maybe slightly older Mercedes Benz) and also the most impressive list of luxury car firsts. The only brand to EVER win UK's coveted Dewar Trophy twice, not to mention the only American brand to win it PERIOD. Cadillac was the first brand to have a 4-cylinder in an era of 1 & 2 cylinder cars, they were the first ones with a V8, one of the first with a V12 and of course, their OHV, narrow angle V16 of the early 1930s was not only an incredible engineering marvel but is also considered a work of art. Cadillac is my favorite brand of all time. I think I'm not alone in this as a first generation East European immigrant. Here's how Cadillac's AWESOMENESS breaks down: 1. The Art Deco V16s. (I'd say the tiger hunt V16 is THE coolest car of ALL time!)

WMJ: You're a class act. Love 'em. Thanks.

Wow, that sux hardcore! Granted the guy who ran a red light in the BMW ad totaled the Datsun put Julie & me through hell as far as the car situation goes, and by extension the B-59 got driven when it SHOULD NOT have been which caused even more damage & hassle, but that was one accident in years... You guys have had what, FOUR in about a years time... crazy! Now not to be the bearer of bad news but here's another wrinkle to this whole fiasco, the Prizm which was already by the insurance co. when you were rear ended last year so even if you end up getting a settlement on this whole mess the insurance will say the value of the Prizm will be very close to ZERO. Either way best of luck, you'll NEED it.