Cadillacs from the '60s are about as big a car as you can get and, when they're fixed up correctly, nothing else on the boulevard can come close to the eye appeal a low-slung Caddy can generate...
more
|
Growing up in the early '80s on a farm in Iowa, Robert Gallery knew the value of keeping engines running. He used to help his dad out when they'd swap motors in some of the cars...
more
|
Bringing one of Detroit's most luxurious creations to the next level isn't an easy task. The team at Xtreme in Slatersville, RI started by giving Lou's coupe a perfect stance thanks to an Air Ride Technologies suspension...
more
|
Check out MSD Ignition's 2005 Cadillac CTS-V with LS6 cylinder heads and a Aeromotive fuel pump.
more
|
Some of life's best opportunities arise when you're least prepared to seize them. Recognizing and acting on such chances separates those who achieve their dreams from those who are destined...
more
|
Read about these GM Performance Cars with a 2005 Cadillac CTS-V with Kooks Headers and Eibach Springs.
more
|
EPP's Pro Charged CTS-V Makes Over 800 Horses At The Wheels On Pump Gas
more
|
One of the original objectives of car customizing was to make inexpensive vehicles look more like upscale models. So what's a custom enthusiast to do when he bases his project on the so-called Standard of the World-a Cadillac? If you're retired bodyman Ed Britz, you mix and match various elements of
more
|
A twin procharged 2005 Cadillac CTS-V - GM High Tech Performance Magazine
more
|
Roger and Marie O'Dell are the consummate Southern California car enthusiast couple. Roger grew up in the custom hotbed of Bellflower in the late '50s and early '60s, and since then has dabbled in all aspects of the hobby-rods, customs, restos, and even drag racing. His Bellflower background and lon
more
|
So I call Damon to ask him something, and before I can hang up he ropes me in for a "Stylines" gig. Great, it's been a while, what should we lay down for the purveyors of Custom Rodder? How about a couple big, bold mid-'50s luxury behemoths?
more
|
Shade Tree Shoebox"I started this car at the age of 59, and had many days when I just wanted to sit on the couch and pray the car would finish itself," says Bruce Doss of his '50 Ford. After 4 years of both praying and working, his North Carolina-based coupe is finally done, on the road, and lookin'
more
|
Check out Richard Potter's 507ci Cadillac V8 Engine as we put it to the test on the dyno inside Popular Hot Rodding Magazine.
more
|
Frank Stevens' Low-Down '65 Deville
more
|
It's always enlightening to dig into the backgrounds of Custom Rodder's newer, younger readers. Interestingly, many stumbled into the '50s and '60s custom car scene from the ranks of other rodding realms like mini-trucks, Volkswagens, and street machines.
more
|
Read about Vincent DiMartino as he gets his 2005 Cadillac CTS-V supercharged with a MagnaCharger kit from Magnusson Products Inc. Inside GM High-Tech Performance Magazine.
more
|
There's nothing subtle about a '59 Cadillac. Heavy chrome bumpers, a mile-long profile, and gargantuan tailfins pretty much guarantee such a car will never go unnoticed. It's a natural choice for a young car builder seeking to make a dynamic debut in the custom car scene, which is exactly what Austi
more
|
For decades, American car companies have pursued an elusive "European influence" in automotive design and engineering. In more recent years, a small-but-dedicated bunch of European hot rodders and custom enthusiasts has emerged with an equal desire to wrench o
more
|
The word is out in Northern California--Greg Westbury builds a pretty mean car. Known for maniacal attention to detail and top-shelf fabrication skills, the "G-Man" has amassed quite a following around his home in Concord, California. Greg recently began build
more
|
The face of Cadillac has changed. For those of you sleeping under a rock for the last two years, that means performance is back in a big way. The go-fast gurus within GM's Performance Division have turned the new Cadillac CTS--itself a vast improvement over pre
more
|
Want to learn how to properly drive fast? Then come to Phoenix, Arizona to check out the Bondurant High-Performance Driving School. Instructors vary from World Rally drivers to NASCAR drivers. -Super Chevy Magazine
more
|
Judging by the overabundance of '60s-era cars in this magazine, you'd think we were forgetting all about the '50s, wouldn't you? Well, think again! We'll be the first to admit there has been plenty of focus centered on the later custom rods, but that doesn't m
more
|
Say all of the hideous things you want about the Cadillac CTS. Go ahead. It looks funny. It's underpowered. It's expensive. It has two doors too many. It's not terribly sporting. Chevy doesn't sell it.
more
|
Let's make something perfectly clear right now about the 2003 Cadillac CTS: old people are gonna hate it. "What's so unusual about that?" you ask. "Old people hated the Catera too." Well, yes, but everybody hated the Catera, including Cadillac. Notwithstanding
more
|
Randy Wilcox, a produce dealer from Mahtomedi, Minnesota, isn't one of those guys into whatever the trends are at the time. Though custom rod fashion is now dominated by early-'60s rides, Wilcox was always passionate about these cars. What has led newcomers down this path is that they'd never seen a
more
|