2002 Cadillac Escalade EXT Review: Model Lineup

The first car I ever owned (in 1972) was a '69 1/2 2 door Datsun 510.  I still miss that car!  You could either use the brakes or turn on the a/c to slow it down.  I stripped the under dash a/c system out and patched the firewall holes with duct tape and spray undercoating on the engine side of the firewall.  I added a front BRE spoiler, bigger front sway bar and added a rear sway bar.  I cut the shifter down to make the "throw" shorter and installed a 13" steering wheel and a tachometer.  I found out that 4 lug Corvair wheels (pre '65 I think) had the right offset but were much wider than the stock 4.5" rims and worked really well with a set of Goodyear Polyglass A-70's (about as high tech as we had back then).  It had a free flow exhaust system so it sounded faster than it actually was but it was fun to drive and handled better than most (cheap) cars at the time.  At the time I crewed for a friend (my employer) who raced E Production with a Porshe Speedster and I drove to a number of tracks in the SE.