Classic YouTube: Making A Presidential Autocross Lap In A Caddy Limo!


Classic YouTube: Making A Presidential Autocross Lap In A Caddy Limo!

One of the best ways to get all three of us laughing and cheering on the underdog: find the biggest car you can and make it do things it was never ever designed to do. You don’t get much bigger than a Cadillac Fleetwood limo, do you? No, this isn’t a stretch job, but it is a sincere limousine…it probably even has the partition between the driver and the suit paying the driver. While we aren’t completely sure which variation of the Caddy big-block is powering this one (472? 368?) we know that either way you slice it, this is the most modern big-block American sedan that was put out…Cadillac axed the mill in 1984. That means that even with smogger-levels of horsepower and torque, the big Caddy offers up the twist necessary to haze the tires into oblivion when provoked. Heaving around a car that has the turning circle of a mid-grade yacht around cones might leave the cone monkeys facepalming and groaning, knowing that they are about to go pick up every last mauled orange sentinel that got flattened by two and a half tons of GM opulence, but from our perspective: Dude…steer-by-throttle! NICE!

Now imagine the looks on every Miata owner waiting their turn behind this guy.


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2 thoughts on “Classic YouTube: Making A Presidential Autocross Lap In A Caddy Limo!

  1. Scott

    That thing has the turning radius of an aircraft carrier, but I genuinely think I want one for Power Tour.

  2. Dave

    Hey, that\’s me! 1982 Fleetwood Series 75 Formal Sedan, without the partition, sorry. It originally had the 368 MD V8-6-4, but I yanked that out and dropped in a 500 cu beast from a \’76 hearse and had a true dual exhaust (2.5\”) setup installed. The smoking tire video is before we welded the diff. This video shows how it handled after: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ksNknSHBLM

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