- sedan 4,022
- Saint Louis, MO
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- oldride.com
Here at motoexotica classic cars, it is wrapped within the form of a 1938 town sedan coach worked by fleetwood, rated by the classic car club of america as a ccca full classic, a designation reserved for only the finest vehicles from 1925-1948. After being treated a complete body-off frame restoration, the car has been driven approximately 4,000 miles since restoration. The meticulous comprehensive nut and bolt professional restoration included all aspects of this rarely seen big v16 time machine. Everything was restored from the tidy powder coated frame and underbody to exhaust, brakes, and brake lines. The exterior has a show winning paint job and fresh chrome, the rebuilt v16 motor and components run very smooth. Cadillac believed customers demanded a car powered by an engine simultaneously more powerful and smoother than any other available. Unlike many luxury car builders, who sold bare chassis to be clothed by outside coach-building firms, general motors had purchasedfleetwood metal bodyandfisher bodyto keep all the business in-house. In 2008 or 2009, the then-current owner brought the car, which was still in good overall condition, to black knight restoration in houston, texas for rehabilitation as a executive driver. Professional technicians disassembled the vehicle, fixed what did not work then put everything back together in a correct manner. Finished in a dark blue, the cars paint and trim, including the elegant goddess hood ornament, are in excellent overall condition. The windows are clear and crack-free and the cars lights, including the foglights perched over the front bumper, are in very good order. The car rides on 7. 50-16 wide whitewalls, surrounding factory wheel covers and look great. The cars bumpers shine brilliantly, the engine bay is very tidy and there is a permanently mounted battery tender for long-term storage. Extras include a spotlight on the drivers side and a pair of side-mounted spare tires with body-matching covers. Under that hood ornament is a rebuilt, numbers-matching 431 cid l-head 135 v-16 engine with twin carburetors, twin fuel pumps, twin distributors, twin water pumps, and a nine main bearing crankshaft (compared to the ohv v-16's five bearing crank) and produced the same power as earlier versions of the original v-16 with even greater smoothness and gave the '38'40 sixteens the swiftest acceleration of any factory production car in the world at the time, regardless of weight, as well as slightly improved fuel economy over the ohv v-16 cars. This engine was nearly silent at idle and turbine-smooth in operation. The car has a positive-ground starting system with two batteries; a six-volt unit under the front passenger seat with another 12-volt unit under the hood for the starter only. It is easier to get the engine to crank with 12 volts, especially after periods of non-use. The 1938-1940 431 cid cadillac v-16 was one of the last new american auto engine designs prior to world war two. Luxury car drivers of the time valued smoothness and silence more than high-speed power. Hydraulic valve lifters promoted silent running and an absence of periodic adjustment. Unlike most cars of the era, an external oil filter safeguarded the precision valve lifters. Despite the use of side valves, the engine produced as much power as the.
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