They’re not as slow as you think. I have an automatic (I wanted a passenger seat), and it’s quite peppy up to about 35 MPH. I don’t really have any difficulty keeping up with normal traffic. It’ll hit about 70 MPH, but it’s pretty wound out at that speed.  I don’t go on the interstates with it.

You know, I was right there with you until the Cimarron showed up in the video.

They missed that one.  Or maybe the CD was just full.

I have a couple of Cadillacs, and a few years ago some friends made a mix CD for me. All car related songs, but at least half of them were Cadillac songs. Including:

I was actually thinking more along the lines of “The Original Max Talking Headroom Show.”

Yeah, huh?

They’re really nice. The prices for low mileage examples have been going up lately, though. And parts are getting really hard to find.

As for the explanation of whether these Autotrader listings are “stupidity/ignorance or a tactic,”...

If you’re going to be in Frankfurt, you wouldn’t be that far from the Nürburgring. There’s a good chance you wouldn’t even be the slowest car there, if you go.

I used to run Continentals on a Cadillac Fleetwood. It never bothered me.

I’m not sure if it’ll help you, but there are replacement headlight gears available in brass for the C4.

I’ve often been in a parking lot where I can’t tell if a car is going to back out of a space, or was just recently unlocked. It drives me nuts, too.

I’m hoping we’ll see an article on obscure taillights from you next.

Hmmm, I haven’t logged in for a while. I’ve got some pics here, though.

I’ve got one, and in my experience, it’s not the D-pillars that are the problem. If the mirrors are well-adjusted, they don’t really get in the way. But the slope of the roof limits the distance of the view behind the car. You can lower the inside mirror a bit to improve the angle, but then it obstructs the forward…

Take the Cadillac 16. A beautiful concept car. But it was an 18'8" long, 6'8" wide monster of a car that weighed 5005lbs and got 16mpg. A standard parking space in the US is 18' long and 8' wide. So you have a concept car that if parked next to itself dead center of the space would have 28" of space to open your door…

This has happened before, in reverse. In the late ‘80s, during the economic bubble, Japanese collectors were importing classic American cars in large numbers. The demand pushed prices to stratospheric levels. I knew someone with a 1953 Corvette who was offered $750,000 dollars from a Japanese collector. Along with a…

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It was an X-ray machine. A Smiths CTX 9800 series, I believe. That was my immediate concern, too. I checked on the radiation exposure, and it appears he’s likely to have received no more than the equivalent of three days normal background radiation during his little adventure.

Hey, a Daihatsu Midget! (at 7:55)