You know that whole adage about lightweight racers being the best? Yeah…throw that book out of the window. There are some cases when full weight (and plenty of it) make sense. Case in point: this late 1970s Cadillac Coupe de Ville was rolling around in it’s Colonial Yellow glory, with a full and complete interior and one nasty 6.0L LS under the hood. Up close, the Cadillac is as clean as it appears in BigKleib34’s video, and on the track, it will hustle it’s two-ton backside down the track in ten or so seconds. The only way this thing could be cooler would be if he sat in the staging lanes with “Shaft” playing out of the speakers before rolling into the lanes.
Who drives the great big yellow brick,
It’s a screamin’ strip machine yet it keeps the driver nice and comfy….SHAFT!
You’re damn right.
Thats my friend Shawns Caddy!
Oh joy – another LS!
For the ONLY way to rod a Caddy look at Coup Devil – that sinister black land speed Caddy – or would that involve using more than the one brain cell that LS lovers have……
keep hating on the LS motor…hate on it as it it takes you off the line, hate on it as u cant catch it down the track, and hate on it when is takes the win light…
Should be called Coupe de Kille. Hah. I crack myself up.
Courtney Hines was rocking full size Caddys in Albuquerque and So Cal in the 70’s.
http://www.cad500parts.com/history.htm
That was/is one beautiful race car . I had the pleasure of seeing it run numerous times in NM.
pretty cool, do not understand the need to have heavy race cars. must get tired of racing that red corvette
Way to go Shawn ….made the big time at Last !!!!!!