This started life as a Ferrari Mondial 8, Ferrari’s mid-engine 2+2 coupe and the relatively practical member of the family — four seats, decent luggage space, and the same basic transverse V8 layout lineage as the 308. The original Ferrari V8 and transaxle are gone, replaced with a Cadillac Northstar 32-valve V8 and its matching […]
The thing on your computer screen (or 24% of you on a cell phone if you read DT on mobile) is a Cadillac Seville that has been pushed far beyond the factory’s already-weird bustleback styling. It’s got a chopped roof, rear-hinged back doors, shaved handles, sliding ragtop, satin-black paint, and a wild 383 stroker V8 […]
This is a Cadillac XLR, GM’s early-2000s attempt to build a proper luxury roadster using the same basic Y-platform architecture and Bowling Green assembly plant as the C6 Corvette—but with a completely different Cadillac personality. Power comes from the LH2 4.6-liter Northstar DOHC V8, rated at 320 hp and 310 lb-ft, driving the rear wheels […]
The 1939 Cadillac Series 61 was Cadillac’s entry-level line, but “entry-level Cadillac” in 1939 still meant a proper prestige car with V8 power, big-car presence, and far more style than most ordinary sedans of the era. Power would have come from Cadillac’s flathead V8, which was smooth, torquey, and very much part of Cadillac’s prewar […]
Picture this. You’ve got an 80s Cadillac Coupe Deville with a mid 90s LT1 V8 transplant that has been given the full El Camino treatment and you need to sell it. But for some strange reason, you can’t fit the entire car in your camera lens. You can’t find the room to back up and […]
The Cadillac DeVille was the ultimate symbol of American awesomeness in the mid 1960s. It had huge proportions, big block V8 power, and enough chrome to be visible from space. Converted here into a homemade “Cad-A-Mino,” it looks like the kind of custom machine Elvis might have ordered during his rhinestone cowboy era, half luxury […]
This next car is huge. Tipping the scales at well over two and a half tons, this car delivers an impressive value proposition when evaluated strictly on dollars per pound, making it one of the most efficient ways to purchase rolling American steel short of a decommissioned aircraft carrier. Today’s feature Fleetwood pairs that mass […]
Most of these mid 1970s Cadillac wagon conversions did not get their wagon bits from another Cadillac at all, because Cadillac never offered a factory wagon body shell. The coachbuilders typically started with a Cadillac Fleetwood (often a 75 or long wheelbase car), then grafted in the rear roof, cargo area structure, tailgate, and glass […]
This Cadillac DeVille pickup conversion is the kind of opulent oddity that only the 1970s could produce. One of just six built that year by American Built Cars out of SF Bay Area, this silver masterpiece was supposedly never a flower car but a bespoke hauler for a man who clearly believed even his pickup […]
Somewhere in upstate New York, lightning struck a garage and the abomination you see on the screen was born—the “Chevillac.” Part Chevy C10 pickup, part Cadillac hallucination, and part Ford van (yes, really), this Horrorod blends a 1956 Cadillac bumper, 1959 Caddy tailfins, 2011 Ford E-450 headlights, and 1956 Ford hood ornaments—all slathered in retina-searing […]