Cadillacs, Ferraris & a Whole Lotta Horsepower!

 

 

 Now, let me tell y’all a thing or two about them good ol’ Cadillac Eldorado MK11 and MK12, and the Cadillac Seville MK3. Them big American land yachts just kept on struttin’ around with that classic ’80s look well into the ’90s, like nobody ever bothered to tell ’em the decade had changed.

And wouldn’t ya know it, them fancy ol’ Cadillacs were all over the silver screen! Movies, TV shows, you name it. Throughout the ’90s and early 2000s, them big ol’ cruisers were practically Hollywood royalty.

Now, I’ve rambled on about the Lancia Thema before, but good Lord almighty, I ain't even gotten started on the Thema 8.32 Ferrari!

There’s been one of them Italian stallions sittin’ for sale on FINN.no for what feels like a hundred years, and somehow, nobody’s gone and bought the dang thing! Can y’all believe that?

I mean, shoot, we're talkin’ about a proper Italian Lancia here. Already a fancy, luxurious piece of machinery, but then some crazy son of a gun decided to shove a Ferrari engine under the hood!

Lord have mercy!

That’s like takin’ your Sunday school teacher, puttin’ a loaded shotgun in her purse, and sendin’ her off to a poker game in Las Vegas. A downright wolf in sheep’s clothing, I tell ya!

Now, speakin’ of fancy automobiles, let’s mosey on over to the Cadillac Allanté.

That slick little convertible even made an appearance on Dallas, and boy howdy, was she a looker! A proper country-club cruiser for a fella with more money than sense.

And I got myself a little theory about that one, partner. I reckon the Allanté might’ve had somethin’ to do with Cadillac’s early connections to Saab, and that whole business that eventually led to GM buyin’ into the Swedish outfit. After all, the Allanté and the first Saab 900 convertible were cut from a similar cloth: sporty, luxurious, open-top machines for folks who enjoyed the finer things in life.

Now, I ain't sayin’ that's a fact. Just a little ol’ theory of mine.

And before I forget, the Cadillac Seville even popped up in Seinfeld, along with a whole mess of other American movies.

Yessir, back in them days, if a Hollywood director needed a car that said, “I got money, I got problems, and I sure as hell ain't drivin’ no Toyota,” a Cadillac was just about the finest answer there was.

God bless them big ol’ American automobiles, y’all!

 

 








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