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Nov 19, 2020 · Don’t know what a Pimpmobile is? 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 ...
A well-known pimpmobile fabricator was Les Dunham of Dunham Coachworks in Boonton, New Jersey. Les built the cars in Super Fly, as well as the "Corvorado" and the Cadillac Fleetwood in the James Bond film.
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In Super Fly (1972), the custom Cadillac Eldorado “pimpmobile” that Priest (Ron O’Neal) drives was owned and lent to the producers to use in the film by K.C., a real-life Harlem pimp who also makes a brief appearance in the nightclub scene.
Percival (View Comment): An understated one. Yep, I should have mentioned Live and Let Die, not a Blaxploitation film, but it does show how quickly that pimpmobile image made its way into popular ...
Oct 4, 2017 · Apparently the producers rented the movie car (a ’71 Eldo ‘vert) from one of Dunham’s customers after seeing it parked somewhere in New York City. The owner was a pimp named “K.C.” (who actually wound up in a cameo role in the movie).
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Oct 14, 2020 · The Pick of the Day is a 1970 Cadillac Eldorado transformed into a Del Caballero, a garish pimpmobile loaded with custom flourishes fit for the super-bad Super Fly movie dude Youngblood Priest, played by Ron O’Neal wearing a pair of enormous sideburns.
Oct 8, 2021 · UPDATE 10/08/2021: We originally featured this 1974 Cadillac Eldorado Moloney Superfly back in July 2020, but it appears that it might not have sold at that time. It is a distinctive car that appears to be in good condition, and it is located in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
