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 […]
I’ve owned and driven many cars over the years, but few have had the street presence of the 3rd generation (1965-1970) Coupe De Ville (or is it de Ville or DeVille…or?) that I owned back in the day. This is a gigantic car with a gas-guzzling 472 cubic inch V8 that will put a smile […]
The third generation (1965-1970) Cadillac DeVille is a car that defies all attempts from those who might label it. Is it because the DeVille is too massive to fit in any box? Possibly. But as a former Coupe DeVille owner, I can tell you that the old Caddy made for a surprisingly good occasional classic […]
This next car isn’t the car that Robert De Niro’s character (Ace Rothstein) drove in Casino, because that was an El Dorado…but it probably has similar bomb absorbing underbody panels and is so seriously gangster that I can’t help but smile. This is the kind of car that a gangster like Vito Genovese or Crazy Joe […]
Back in 1984, Cadillac was not trying to ape German car makers to make the fastest sedan to run the Nurburgring. They primarily focused on making large cars that got middling better gas mileage than the parade floats of the 1970’s. No one would mistake a Coupe DeVille for an Audi or BMW back in […]
How does this sound to you? Red paint, red landau roof, red leather seats, red carpet, red dash, and red steering wheel. This downsized 1977 coupe is to the color red as golfer Ricky Fowler is to the color orange. Find this 1977 Cadillac Coupe de Ville for sale for $12,500 via Northwest CT craigslist. […]