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04 Jan 2018, 8:52 pm

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on the other hand, a 1959 cadillac is quite a sprightly machine.

here is a stock standard vehicle virtual clip where i drove it around a course.
i must say, if you can dance with it, it makes a damned fine partner.

most modern muscle cars would find it a chore to keep this pace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxqvgpJ-cIY&t=149s

I can't tell if that's real or CGI.

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04 Jan 2018, 10:57 pm

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04 Jan 2018, 10:58 pm

^^^^man, that's outta this world! :alien:

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04 Jan 2018, 11:17 pm

EzraS wrote:

b9 wrote:

I can't tell if that's real or CGI.

it's a video game

but a very well rendered one, i will say that.

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05 Jan 2018, 5:18 am

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b9 wrote:

I don't know how that possibly could have been stock. the caddies of that vintage I've ridden in felt more like boats in terms of their gooey suspension, they'd lean back when you stomped the gas and had poor body control in general, and had such heavy mufflers that even at full throttle you'd barely hear a peep from the exhaust.

i did forget to mention in my introduction, that the sound of the car is like it has had it's mufflers removed.

it is atrocious.

to anyone who thinks "this is too fast for stock" then realize it would not sound like that in reality.
it's sounds powerful, and it was, but all you would hear from it is a "swish" as it went past.
i so tried to get the right soundset for the car.

anyway, on the eldorado barritz, they had auto leveling pneumatic suspension which greatly aided their handling.

these suspension systems did not last that long before they needed to be replaced at an exorbitant price.

most people opted to just resort to shock absorbers and coils, and those cars wallow seriously.

but a brand new eldorado baritz was quite a stable platform.

however, you did have to know how to drive them.
in the clip being discussed, i practised that course many times before i got the"line" right.

you can very much smooth out bends by cutting into them and going wide out of them.

so the example i posted was a 429 V8 and that was an option in the baritz.

other than that, it is a standard cadillac with original pneumatic suspension working.

the cadillacs of 1959 came with 3 powertrains.
a 360 cu in V8 for the brougham (i think the brougham was the cheaper one)
a 390 cid V8 for the base eldorado, and a 429 in the eldorado baritz.

i do not think the fleetwood line existed then.

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05 Jan 2018, 9:57 am

This will be my car as soon as I get 25 million dollars.

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05 Jan 2018, 10:13 am

I'm still working on how to put my own pictures online, so I had to go with a stock image. I drive one of these. Mine's a '97, which means next year he'll be old enough to drink legally, but I love my car and can't bear the thought of giving him up just because he's old.

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05 Jan 2018, 1:07 pm

oh my god.

is it a turbo?

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05 Jan 2018, 2:44 pm

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oh my god.

is it a turbo?

Yes, a '97 Limited Edition, straight six with twin sequential turbos. I named him Galileo, because I'm a nerd.

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05 Jan 2018, 3:29 pm

Just bought this and already flipped it, fixing to deliver it :lol:

97 Jeep Wrangler = $900 Profit!

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05 Jan 2018, 10:08 pm

I would love a mint-condition '88 caddy sedan de ville, stock base but with hydraulic dampers. red or pink, with cloth bench seat interior.

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05 Jan 2018, 10:14 pm

I don't have one...but whenever I do potentially get one, it will likely be someones used car they are selling for cash, so no idea what kind it will be. I have always liked the look of the volkswagon bug and the bus...and those challenger cars are cool looking but there is what I would like and what will be available in my price range lol. What would be really cool is to get kind of a fixer upper looking car and make it look like a Mad Max car, now that would be awesome.

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05 Jan 2018, 10:22 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:

from one WPer to another- BEWARE of the "new beatles," they are a money pit. they rank high on consumer reports' most unreliable autos year after year. there are much better, cheaper [if not as cute] choices out there. german cars generally are expensive, and built to stay that way.

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05 Jan 2018, 10:41 pm

^the MX-5/Miata is just as cute as a beetle and significantly less maintenance-intensive than one, to boot.

they are quite small though, not much room for stuff.

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Kiprobalhato wrote:

oh my god.

is it a turbo?

Yes, a '97 Limited Edition, straight six with twin sequential turbos. I named him Galileo, because I'm a nerd.

if it's a manual too, then it's easily worth more than most of the cars in this thread.

at least in terms of what people will give you for it...we're in the middle of a 90s japanese sports car bubble right now it seems.

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05 Jan 2018, 10:52 pm

6- speed manual transmission, yep. I'll never sell him, though. When I give up driving he'll go to my oldest son.

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05 Jan 2018, 11:27 pm

in terms of general smoothness, serenity and magic carpet ride quality, i'd settle for a mint-condition '93 chevy lumina base sedan [NOT the Eurosport].

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