🏎️ Max Uncovers the Most American Car of all Time

Gm & HAPPY MONDAY, JULY 3rd.

Today’s episode is a little change of pace. Most of you weren’t around when this email came out (crazy, we’ve more than doubled in the last month!), so I figured…

This is the most American car ever, what better vehicle is there to send out on the day before the holiday that celebrates the birth of the USA.

So, HERE IT IS…

The May 19th Edition of MaxFindsCars, “🏎️ Max Finds the Car Version of a Mullet“

Usually at this part of the email, I have to give a spiel and strong-arm you into sticking around because a seemingly boring car is more interesting than it appears…

I will not have to do that for today’s car, dear readers.

Let me cut to the chase…

CHECK

THIS

OUT

A 1981 Cadillac Fleetwood (with… some modifications)

• 🌏️ Driven around the world: ???

  • It shows 24k on the odometer, but there are so many asterisks on the title for this car there’s legitimately no way to know.

• 🎼 Song to Get the Vibes Right: White Trash Millionaire

• 🏇 Can beat probably all of the horses in a fight

• 💰️ Predicted Price: $1,000,000 (give or take $965,000)

  • Modern, July 3rd Max here again: I can’t believe this thing sold for $27k. What a steal.

• 📆 Auction Ends: TODAY (Friday, May 18th, 2023)

Okay… SO!

MaxFindsCars is usually a place where I stand on my soap box and tell you why every car is interesting & cool - maybe its the engineering, maybe its the heritage, or maybe its the story of that individual car.

Sometimes I choose cars that are outwardly boring af - everyone knows italian supercars are special, but not everyone knows the Saab 9-5 Turbo your political science professor drives is.

However…

When this car slid across my desk I was STUNNED

How could we not talk about this thing?

So…

What Makes The Fleetwood Stretch Limo So Cool?

• It is “THE UNDISPUTED MULLET OF AUTOMOBILES”

  • quote via the concisely named @mmmahhmatt in the BringATrailer comments

• It’s PROBABLY the fastest limo on EARTH

• It’s more like a SPACESHIP than you’d expect

  • admittedly, you’d probably expect its very UNLIKE a spaceship, so this is a low bar.

It is “THE UNDISPUTED MULLET OF AUTOMOBILES”

MaxFindsCars, again, pioneering technology by putting gifs in emails. Cutting edge shit, dear readers.

Mullets are back in vogue.

I have no idea why, but I’ve been seeing them everywhere.

On men, on dogs, and now this…

Which is pretty damn close to a mullet on wheels. The only thing about that description that doesn’t work is that a mullet is “business in the front, party in the back”

whereas this Caddy is a party ALL THE WAY THROUGH.

I think a more apt description is…

If Snoop Dogg and Evel Knievel had a car company, THIS dragstrip-ready Fleetwood is what they would build.

It’s PROBABLY the fastest limo on EARTH

Okay, this took some hardcore investigative journalism, dear readers.

And, yes, by that I mean two (2) google searches.

BUT, I have it on good authority (a weird and ancient looking website) that the world record holding fastest limo in the world is a Ferrari 360 Modena built by some dude in Manchester (pretty sure the England one & not New Hampshire).

Here it is:

I found no evidence that the engine was modified to make more power, so we can only assume that this Ferrari limo puts out a MEASLY 400 horsepower while being 9ft longer than normal.

Now… while our Cadillac’s auction post mentions nothing with respect to engine power.

What we know is that its a supercharged, 484 cubic inch V8.

From Google Search numero two I have determined that it is entirely possible for this exact engine to make nearly 900 horsepower (while using nitrous).

Because I was unfortunately limited to only those two google searches, we can only assume that this Cadillac does, in fact, make OVER TWICE THE POWER as that peasant Ferrari.

Not only that, but check out the THICCCCC rubber on the back of the Fleetwood:

Our boy is MADE to live life a quarter mile at a time, like Dom intended.

Safe to say if you buy this car you have a great shot at getting yourself a world record.

You’ll go down in history, friend.

It’s more like a SPACESHIP than you’d expect

And no, its not just like a spaceship because its fast!

First (and I’m saving the best for last, so keep reading CHUMP), it does not have a fuel tank.

Nope!

This thing has a fuel cell (like the damn space shuttle)

“Two batteries and a stainless-steel fuel cell with a capacity of approximately 20 gallons are positioned in the trunk.”

- The Seller

I have NO IDEA what the difference is between a fuel cell and a fuel tank BUT my working theory is that there is a certain acceleration threshold the car must have, maybe its quarter mile time, that allows it to define your fuel container as a ‘cell’

This Fleetwood has crossed that threshold, as do spaceships.

Second… look at these sick ass switches you have to flip to turn it on:

Third, and most importantly:

There’s a button called “WARP MODE”.

I asked the seller about it, here’s what they said:

Now, this is the type of mystery that gets me going. Missing person AND an unknown button that gives big “Ludicrous Speed” from Space Balls vibes…

I’m going to need you, dear reader, to buy this thing and tell me what that button does STAT.

And remember…

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That's a wrap for today. New Editions come out every Monday & Friday! While you wait, go out and drive! And if you want more, be sure to follow Max’s Twitter (@maxjzin)

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