Why are you all assuming the 1964 Cadillac Coupe Deville is slow?

It's top speed was 121/122 and its 340 horsepower 429 V8 could accelerate it from 0-60 in 8 seconds. At that time it was incredible. The slow stereotype for the Cadillac came later in the post 500 caddies.|||In the year 1964 the 1964 Cadillac was classified as muscle. It had few competitors for few cars of that year could match its 121/122 speed limit. Albeit slow, the car could lunge forward like a wild tiger as it touched a speed that was almost miraculous a generation ago. In that era only the Corvette and cars with the most powerful engine options could keep pace.|||I raced against the Coupe Devilles, this is not idle speculation. From a dead stop, from a running 60, you name it. My Dad's 68 Dodge Dart could beat one, and it only had a 225 six in it. I didn't need a police interceptor engine to do it. I raced them in what I was driving at the time. Even my 72 Corolla could take one, and it only had about 96 horse power the way I had built the engine.


You can have your arm chair racing all you want, but on the pavement, it just does not hold up!|||Why are you assuming that a Caddy is going to be any competition at all against a 409, 400 HP with a Muncie 4 speed, SS Impala?


That race would only embarrass the Caddy owner.|||because it's 4800lbs and 0-60 in 10sec.








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