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A pimpmobile is a large luxury vehicle, usually a 1960s, 1970s or 1980s-model Lincoln, Cadillac, Buick or Chrysler vehicle, that has been customized in a garish, extravagant and kitsch or campy style. The style is largely an American phenomenon. Aftermarket features or modifications such as headlight covers, hood ornaments, expensive stereo ...
All were furnished with custom bodies, and the car was built in relatively small numbers. A total of 10,903 were made in the seven model years that the automobile was built, with the majority having been constructed in its inaugural year. It was Cadillac's first, and is to date, Cadillac's only standard production V-12 powered car.
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Jan 8, 2015 · A genuine vintage 1974 Eldorado pimpmobile? Just not gonna’ happen. But Chicago is a different story, and Joseph Dennis found this very well preserved Eldo there. Let’s face it, the mortality on these was bound to be a bit high, so finding one nowadays still on the streets is a real score.
- Paul Niedermeyer
Dec 11, 2015 · A Brief History. When one thinks of the ultimate flashy “pimp mobile,” certain cars come to mind. The flashiest, gaudiest, most impressive pinpin’ rides, the cars we would expect the Number 1 pimp on the block to be riding in. Cars that came from the factory fancy and impressive, and with a little customizing would serve notice to all around of the prestige and importance of the occupant.
Oct 4, 2017 · But lest us get caught up with the Cadillac’s style aspirations of the time, which weren’t all that bad – there’s the execution. Did someone say dissolving urethane bumper fill? Yup. It’s hard to believe by ‘75 or ‘76 that Caddy hadn’t realized the material was scheisse. Yet they went on using this material til the mid-eighties.
- Mya Byrne
Nov 19, 2020 · Check out Magnum Force, one of the Dirty Harry movies. In that film a pimp (Albert Popwell) drives a Cadillac Eldorado that does a pretty good job of establishing what an early ‘70s Pimpmobile was all about: Super Fly headlights; a fake Rolls Royce grille; an overstuffed landau roof, with, duh, landau irons (that the Dirty Harry car is missing).
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