Now THIS is the way to do a car video. Accompany the images with a well-informed narration by the driver, telling us about the parts of the car the camera is looking at, and giving general observations as well. This is such a nice change from those "ghost" videos where the camera goes all over the car but you have no idea what you're looking at. The only sound in these ghost videos is the gravel crunching under the cameraman' shoes! This man is justifiably proud of his restoration of this landmark car.
Beautiful car and great video because you don't have a lot of loud music and you don't talk too much. Love the sounds of the car. All this video is missing is the smells of this great car. Thanks.
Thanks to riddlemotors for making this video available. Enjoyed the ride with the cameraman and the inspection immensely. My father was a Cadillac specialist in his time in Melbourne, Australia. He began his apprenticeship in 1935 at a well renown garage. I have my doubts that he would have actually seen this model given their limited numbers. If he did he would know of the expertize that Cadillac went into with making this excellent car. He went into the second world war fixing and maintaining light aid vehicles for the Australian Imperial forces in Australia, Papua New Guinea and at the Solomon Islands. After the war ended in 1945 he went on years later to work for General Motors Holden, a division of General Motors in Australia and also other garages of high repute. Cadillac usually set the benchmark for the other makes in the General Motors family of divisions. cheers.
@ 0:44 Those louvers behind the grille aren't just for cosmetics. They are the engine temperature control mechanism that high end car makers used before the thermostatic valve was invented. The louvers were closed when the engine was first started and then opened up after it reached operating temperature to let air flow through the radiator. Technically, Fleetwood was owned by Fisher Body Division, not Cadillac Division, but Fisher bought it to work exclusively on higher end Cadillacs like the Series 90.
A beautiful car. I have a "baby" 1936 Cadillac Series 60 Touring Sedan. The engine noise is probably due to the fact that the microphone picked up a lot of mechanical noise that you wouldn't hear if you were standing next to the car. The V-8 flatheads replaced the V-12 in 1937 and the V-16 in 1941. They could get almost as much power out of the 346 and it remained in production until 1948. In 1949, the OHV engine came out and Cadillac and Oldsmobile had a leg up on everybody.
A truly beautiful car. This is when Cadillac was really the pinnical of cars during the Great Depression. As nice as Packard was in the 1930's , the Cadillac really stood out as something very, very, special. I can almost imagine seeing President Roosevelt in the back seat!
Thank you so much for this great car presentation--it made me smile just going along with you for a ride...What a car--I felt like I was driving it...it must have had power steering as you didn't seem to strain yourself steering behemoth...Thank you so much for the experience....
That is 1938 Cadillac 75 series, the 39 had what they called the water fall grill, my 1939 LaSalle had the same like design. 1938 body design is also my favorite I love the grill.
I've heard that although the L-head V16 Cadillacs used older technology compared to the OHV V16s, they were equal in power as well as simpler and lighter. I like that, since it shows optimization is more important than expensive technology. Beautiful car, too.
What a beauty. I prefer the series 2 90's myself. Especially the big limousine bodied ones with the extra jump seats in the back. 39 is also my favorite year too.
I always wondered if the series 90 Cadillacs would've gone down the same assembly lines as the series 75's or LaSalles? Or were they done off to the side as a bespoke built to order thing? Also curious where V16 engines were built or blocks cast? Also transmission options back then? Its really hard to find good detailed info about these gorgeous vehicles.
From my recollection as a child, the engines were much quieter. Perhaps my memory is weak or the engine is at fast idle. Nonetheless seems noisy. Our Packards' engines were remarkably quiet, too.
Square cylinders means length of stroke is equal to diameter of cylinder bore. Undersquare means stroke is longer than bore diameter. Oversquare means bore is larger than length of stroke.
01:31 "Isn't it somthin'? This is beautifully resored to a concord level." ... Then he slams the door so hard the windows rattle and shake. What's up with that?
Not worth that much since he freely admits it is purely a fake-up, i. e. V-8 body mated to a V-16 engine. If he started with a real V-16 chassis/engine combo then the V-8 body would fit right on. Oh, wait, that is wrong! Unless the chassis was from a convertible it would lack the wolfhide bracing at the frame X-member. And the V-8 body would not have the passenger side access hole for the battery. And the front fenders would not fit since they have to mate with the smaller V-16 radiator housing. And the radiator bracing rods from the cowl are a different length. Hood is different too. Not last and certainly not least, the cowl data plate will either show a V-8 model number or has been totally faked up to try to document a V-16 which never existed. A shameful exhibition - now there is a real V-16 body looking for a chassis and a real V-8 chassis looking for a body.
It's not that bad. He did, indeed start with a Series 90 chassis (w/V16 engine). It was not at all uncommon for cars of this class and era to have their bodies changed out from the cowl back when their owners decided they wanted something different. It sounds like this was done by a restorer, but it appears he knew what he was doing and kept the car period-correct in all details. It isn't as valuable as a numbers-matching car, the cowl plate won't match the body style, but it probably would be welcome at most Concours d'Elegance. Frames of the time were built sturdy enough to take whatever body the customer desired, either open or closed.
I liked seeing the car sitting still and rolling, but the guy repeated himself constantly about how wonderful the car was. Also, I was amazed that the program didn't show the actually lowering of the top, which would have been fun and informative to watch. We don't even know whether the top was powered or manual
I would guess that it’s manual and took some time and effort as did the installation of the snap on trim that covers the tops mechanism, which was only briefly shown. (Just a couple snaps)
The girl doesn't look like a 39 it looks more like a 38. Doesn't a 39 1/2 grills sloping down a front fender to on either side of the the grill. I've seen more 38 and that drill looks more like a 38 rhan a 39.
He had a key ring and keys on the key ring! When the car is in motion the other keys will swing back and forth causes wear on the switch. This will make the car act up and you will have to look for a hard to find switch and have to take an expensive dash apart. DO NOT PUT A KEYRING ON ANY IGNITION KEY!
This may be news to you, but most locks are designed to take a key on a keyring without undue wear. In particular, this was not a problem for automotive locks for about 100 years. Then GM f*cked up.
When working as a locksmith back in the late 60s the huge brass keyring for women (easy to find in a purse) was a fad. The weight of those rings would chew up the key cylinder in Ford ignitions like crazy due to the back and forth motion twisting the key.
When the late V-16s were new and when they are properly restored the only engine noise is from the radiator fan. This noisy clunker is an insult to what these cars really are.
"Square cylinders" is a somewhat awkward way of saying that the diameter, or bore, of the cylinder and the depth of the stroke are equal, which was rare at the time. Today virtually all internal combustion engines are "oversquare"-the bore is bigger than the stroke.
+Laura Halliday True, Laura, and the flathead V16 engine was simply a much more modern engine, despite not having overhead valves. The short stroke design, nine main bearings, stronger and more compact block all reflect later engineering thinking than did the magnificent prior V16.
"....convertible sedan, you can run with the top up, top down." REALLY??, only two ways to drive it? "Listen to that engine..." Seriously? Couldn't agree more, "sounds like a bag of nails". Fuel economy?....Please. Does anybody think that owners of this land yacht from the day it was new ever cared about gas mileage? Snarks aside,,,it is a magnificent car and looks like a first-class resto. (Okay, I'll admit it....I wonder what kind of mpg's it does get,,6 or so?)
Nope, a V8 is not smoother than a V16. You can't compare a modern engine with one from the 30s, but still, this Cadillac is smoother and runs better than 90% of the junk you see on the roads today (at least here in Europe, where seeing something with more than 4 cylinders is rare...).
TO BAD THEY DID NOT EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE IN THE 2 V 16 ENGINES ,THE PREVIOUS ENGINE WAS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE TO MANUFACTURE AND THIS ONE IS LIKE THEIR V8 FLATHEAD'S. MUCH QUIETER AS WELL AS THE VALVES ARE IN THE BLOCK.THEY ONLY MADE THIS ENGINE FOR 2 YRS NO V16'S AFTER 1940. THE VIDEO OF THE ENGINE WAS LIMITED BECAUSE THE HOOD ONLY OPENED FOR THE TOP AS VERSUS THE OLD CARS THE HOOD OPENED COMPLETE SIDES AND TOP.
These engines had a very wide power band. Drivers of these cars would sometimes pull out from a stop in third gear, the closest thing that time period had to offer to automatic transmission.
A look at your channel and it's very obvious that you are even more boring than this guy. What did you want? Fucking rap music while the show is on? Go back to you video games, kiddo.
ElCid48 because I felt like it. All I am saying was maybe at the time I just said to myself, "this guy is boring, might as well make a dumb comment about it to get noticed" unconsciously.
Now THIS is the way to do a car video. Accompany the images with a well-informed narration by the driver, telling us about the parts of the car the camera is looking at, and giving general observations as well.
This is such a nice change from those "ghost" videos where the camera goes all over the car but you have no idea what you're looking at. The only sound in these ghost videos is the gravel crunching under the cameraman' shoes!
This man is justifiably proud of his restoration of this landmark car.
Beautiful car and great video because you don't have a lot of loud music and you don't talk too much. Love the sounds of the car. All this video is missing is the smells of this great car. Thanks.
BEAUTIFUL CAR AND AN EXCELLENT VIDEO
Thanks to riddlemotors for making this video available. Enjoyed the ride with the cameraman and the inspection immensely.
My father was a Cadillac specialist in his time in Melbourne, Australia.
He began his apprenticeship in 1935 at a well renown garage.
I have my doubts that he would have actually seen this model given their limited numbers.
If he did he would know of the expertize that Cadillac went into with making this excellent car.
He went into the second world war fixing and maintaining light aid vehicles for the Australian Imperial forces in Australia, Papua New Guinea and at the Solomon Islands.
After the war ended in 1945 he went on years later to work for General Motors Holden, a division of General Motors in Australia and also other garages of high repute.
Cadillac usually set the benchmark for the other makes in the General Motors family of divisions.
cheers.
@ 0:44 Those louvers behind the grille aren't just for cosmetics. They are the engine temperature control mechanism that high end car makers used before the thermostatic valve was invented. The louvers were closed when the engine was first started and then opened up after it reached operating temperature to let air flow through the radiator.
Technically, Fleetwood was owned by Fisher Body Division, not Cadillac Division, but Fisher bought it to work exclusively on higher end Cadillacs like the Series 90.
I saw a few errors too
Best video in a while, no stupid loud music, very impressive everything, if you're into cars.
A wonderful work of art and also a great salesman. Congratulations.
A beautiful car. I have a "baby" 1936 Cadillac Series 60 Touring Sedan. The engine noise is probably due to the fact that the microphone picked up a lot of mechanical noise that you wouldn't hear if you were standing next to the car.
The V-8 flatheads replaced the V-12 in 1937 and the V-16 in 1941. They could get almost as much power out of the 346 and it remained in production until 1948. In 1949, the OHV engine came out and Cadillac and Oldsmobile had a leg up on everybody.
A truly beautiful car. This is when Cadillac was really the pinnical of cars during the Great Depression. As nice as Packard was in the 1930's , the Cadillac really stood out as something very, very, special. I can almost imagine seeing President Roosevelt in the back seat!
Thank you so much for this great car presentation--it made me smile just going along with you for a ride...What a car--I felt like I was driving it...it must have had power steering as you didn't seem to strain yourself steering behemoth...Thank you so much for the experience....
That is 1938 Cadillac 75 series, the 39 had what they called the water fall grill, my 1939 LaSalle had the same like design. 1938 body design is also my favorite I love the grill.
What a great ride. Thanks for the memories.
Now that is a Touring Dream Car! Absolutely Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
It's about 50 degrees out, but you absolutely HAD to wear shorts for this video. Classy!
" beautifully restored... to a Concours level" ***slams door***
Exactly as i would. As a restorer i don't think he is gonna do anything to harm it.
What a beauty. A convertible with four doors-cool.
I've heard that although the L-head V16 Cadillacs used older technology compared to the OHV V16s, they were equal in power as well as simpler and lighter. I like that, since it shows optimization is more important than expensive technology.
Beautiful car, too.
Que trompa tan bella color hermoso. Sobrio y elegante sobretodo eran para disfrutarlos desde atrás , despacio .
Overdrive? Radio - clock work? Everything else works? Beautiful automobile.
What a beauty. I prefer the series 2 90's myself. Especially the big limousine bodied ones with the extra jump seats in the back. 39 is also my favorite year too.
would love to have a car like this one for traveling
I once tuned up a couple of older cars with the V configurations that a distributor at both ends.
Didn't Mae West have one of those? Beautiful car! If I drove it I'd be smiling too.
Thank you I enjoyed this video.
magnificent job bro👌
best of luck✌
Beautiful video, thanks for sharing your car. Is the top counterbalanced manual, or hydraulic assist?
00:09 I got that issue! Love Hemmings!
Cadillac: Standard of the World
Fantastic
Sound smooth as silk
This car is READY!!!!!!
11:53 damn smooth....
I always wondered if the series 90 Cadillacs would've gone down the same assembly lines as the series 75's or LaSalles? Or were they done off to the side as a bespoke built to order thing? Also curious where V16 engines were built or blocks cast? Also transmission options back then? Its really hard to find good detailed info about these gorgeous vehicles.
Nicely done video. Would have been nicer with higher resolution camera, though. Wonderful automobile.
outstanding car
oh yeah them square cylinders are pretty popular, like "feeling the car" through a video
From my recollection as a child, the engines were much quieter. Perhaps my memory is weak or the engine is at fast idle. Nonetheless seems noisy. Our Packards' engines were remarkably quiet, too.
That engine should be quiet as a watch
Thanks for the nice long video. What a peach.
Great Car
Square cylinders means length of stroke is equal to diameter of cylinder bore. Undersquare means stroke is longer than bore diameter. Oversquare means bore is larger than length of stroke.
Looks like a flathead 16 with twin carbs.😎
Great video and an amazing car. I am curious: how heavy is that steering?
An “L” head engine is a flat head - the V16 is an overhead valve - wow man😮
Thank you for no music!
what kind of rpm does it turn at highway speeds?.....gas milage?
BEAUTIFUL CAR!!!
GREAT VIDEO
ONLY THE BEARINGS
NOSE
THE SIXTEN IT VERY
SILENCE ? REPAIR BEFORE MAKE VIDEO
Well I'll be damm, I learned something new....thank you.
I believe that the Presidential Caddy is in the Car´s Museum of Bruxelles, may be? Greetings from Argentina...
The Caddy has all of the opulence of a Ford Pinto when compared to a Packard of the same era.
This was one of the last V16 Cadillacs made.
They were still doing the V16s for 1940 models.
What do you mean by "almost opposed cylinders”?
01:31 "Isn't it somthin'? This is beautifully resored to a concord level." ... Then he slams the door so hard the windows rattle and shake. What's up with that?
What's the value of this car? Just wondering how much I need to save up 😉😊
$500,000
Not worth that much since he freely admits it is purely a fake-up, i. e. V-8 body mated to a V-16 engine. If he started with a real V-16 chassis/engine combo then the V-8 body would fit right on. Oh, wait, that is wrong! Unless the chassis was from a convertible it would lack the wolfhide bracing at the frame X-member. And the V-8 body would not have the passenger side access hole for the battery. And the front fenders would not fit since they have to mate with the smaller V-16 radiator housing. And the radiator bracing rods from the cowl are a different length. Hood is different too. Not last and certainly not least, the cowl data plate will either show a V-8 model number or has been totally faked up to try to document a V-16 which never existed. A shameful exhibition - now there is a real V-16 body looking for a chassis and a real V-8 chassis looking for a body.
It's not that bad. He did, indeed start with a Series 90 chassis (w/V16 engine). It was not at all uncommon for cars of this class and era to have their bodies changed out from the cowl back when their owners decided they wanted something different. It sounds like this was done by a restorer, but it appears he knew what he was doing and kept the car period-correct in all details. It isn't as valuable as a numbers-matching car, the cowl plate won't match the body style, but it probably would be welcome at most Concours d'Elegance.
Frames of the time were built sturdy enough to take whatever body the customer desired, either open or closed.
@@dlwatib Interesting information,thank you for sharing.
I liked seeing the car sitting still and rolling, but the guy repeated himself constantly about how wonderful the car was. Also, I was amazed that the program didn't show the actually lowering of the top, which would have been fun and informative to watch. We don't even know whether the top was powered or manual
I would guess that it’s manual and took some time and effort as did the installation of the snap on trim that covers the tops mechanism, which was only briefly shown. (Just a couple snaps)
For a high end car like this what happened to the radio??
Does it have power brakes and power steering?
Jim Jardine power what? Nobody had power anything back then.
Please make the banjo louder I can almost hear you.
when was V-16 cadillac discontinued?
Peter Varga:1939
Peter Varga December of 1939, technically the 1940 model year.
marlene dietrich had a simular cadillac...great car
She was quite a character. Had a terrific career.
The girl doesn't look like a 39 it looks more like a 38. Doesn't a 39 1/2 grills sloping down a front fender to on either side of the the grill. I've seen more 38 and that drill looks more like a 38 rhan a 39.
PLeasuRe to see hoW much he enJOYs iT!!
I suppose near the end of the depression, that was the closest thing to a deusenburg.
He had a key ring and keys on the key ring! When the car is in motion the other keys will swing back and forth causes wear on the switch. This will make the car act up and you will have to look for a hard to find switch and have to take an expensive dash apart. DO NOT PUT A KEYRING ON ANY IGNITION KEY!
This may be news to you, but most locks are designed to take a key on a keyring without undue wear. In particular, this was not a problem for automotive locks for about 100 years. Then GM f*cked up.
When working as a locksmith back in the late 60s the huge brass keyring for women (easy to find in a purse) was a fad. The weight of those rings would chew up the key cylinder in Ford ignitions like crazy due to the back and forth motion twisting the key.
Are you 30 or 60? It's difficult to tell...
The door shut with clank not a clunk. Not discrete.
I question the radio antenna.
Put a super charger on it! 400 hp!
When the late V-16s were new and when they are properly restored the only engine noise is from the radiator fan. This noisy clunker is an insult to what these cars really are.
Did you say "square cylinders?" Never heard of that! Tell me more!
and over square means stroke is shorter than cyl dia
"Square cylinders" is a somewhat awkward way of saying that the diameter, or bore, of the cylinder and the depth of the stroke are equal, which was rare at the time. Today virtually all internal combustion engines are "oversquare"-the bore is bigger than the stroke.
How strange to offer a flathead as well as an OHV V16? Can't see the point. Checking flathead valve clearances is a pain in the butt!
douglas mccullough The flathead V16 had hydraulic valve lifters. It was much simpler to manufacture and maintain than the earlier OHV V16.
+Laura Halliday True, Laura, and the flathead V16 engine was simply a much more modern engine, despite not having overhead valves. The short stroke design, nine main bearings, stronger and more compact block all reflect later engineering thinking than did the magnificent prior V16.
"....convertible sedan, you can run with the top up, top down." REALLY??, only two ways to drive it? "Listen to that engine..." Seriously? Couldn't agree more, "sounds like a bag of nails". Fuel economy?....Please. Does anybody think that owners of this land yacht from the day it was new ever cared about gas mileage? Snarks aside,,,it is a magnificent car and looks like a first-class resto. (Okay, I'll admit it....I wonder what kind of mpg's it does get,,6 or so?)
это что за газбалоны под капотом?
You sure that's not a '38?
Funny, that one modern big block V8 would do a better job and be cheaper to run and maintain! Needs an auto trans for smoother take off.
For example??????????????????????????????????????
Nope, a V8 is not smoother than a V16.
You can't compare a modern engine with one from the 30s, but still, this Cadillac is smoother and runs better than 90% of the junk you see on the roads today (at least here in Europe, where seeing something with more than 4 cylinders is rare...).
Jim Jardine 16 cylinders will always be smoother no matter the timing.
+E34Benzin You should see what the ex-Eastern block drives. Too big is not big enough for them.
+paulparoma I know, big luxury cars are pretty popular in Eastern Europe. Mercedes G Class, W140, VW Phaeton, Tuareg, Land Cruiser, you name it!
I can see it now a 16 yr old driving it, and telling daddy i wreck it
Just dont slam the door!
my super eight Packard is a whole lot quieter
I want
TO BAD THEY DID NOT EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE IN THE 2 V 16 ENGINES ,THE PREVIOUS ENGINE WAS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE TO MANUFACTURE AND THIS ONE IS LIKE THEIR V8 FLATHEAD'S. MUCH QUIETER AS WELL AS THE VALVES ARE IN THE BLOCK.THEY ONLY MADE THIS ENGINE FOR 2 YRS NO V16'S AFTER 1940. THE VIDEO OF THE ENGINE WAS LIMITED BECAUSE THE HOOD ONLY OPENED FOR THE TOP AS VERSUS THE OLD CARS THE HOOD OPENED COMPLETE SIDES AND TOP.
Maravilhoso exagero.
come mas combustible que un tanque de la segunda guerra mundial...
only three gears. poor fuel economy I guess.
If you could afford to buy a V16 Cadillac in 1939 or even today, you were not concerned with fuel economy!
These engines had a very wide power band. Drivers of these cars would sometimes pull out from a stop in third gear, the closest thing that time period had to offer to automatic transmission.
dry belts
Noisy engine. Flatheads were normally quiet.
It is a beautiful car, but I can do without his boasting bordering bragging.
quit driving like a old man gas on it, burn some rubber lmao
Square cylinders????!!! WTF? He doesn't actually think that this car has square pistons I hope...LOL
Of course! They were designed in Minecraft.
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Beautiful car. What is making that squeal? Fan belt? Yet almost no noise inside when driving.
I don't ever want to be as boring as this guy
A look at your channel and it's very obvious that you are even more boring than this guy. What did you want? Fucking rap music while the show is on? Go back to you video games, kiddo.
ElCid48 I don't remember or see why i made this comment but that means it wasn't serious. Not sure what rap or games has to do with it
So, if it was not serious, why comment at all?
ElCid48 because I felt like it. All I am saying was maybe at the time I just said to myself, "this guy is boring, might as well make a dumb comment about it to get noticed" unconsciously.
so, delete the dumb comment
Lovely motor car
I like my Bentley better
It’s auto
I wish I was Riding in that Car That is Beautiful car