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CadZZilla is a custom car built by Boyd Coddington.

History

Conceived in 1989, CadZZilla is a customized Cadillac, built for Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. The car's appearance was designed by Jack Chisenhall and Larry Erickson.[1] It is acclaimed as one of the great expressions of automotive customization.[2] Drawing inspiration from the lead sleds and Mercury Eights of the 1950s, it was different from anything that had gone before it. CadZZilla attracted considerable attention. Hot Rod's Gray Baskerville called CadZZilla "the most incredible transformation he'd ever witnessed",[1] and in their "History of Hot Rods & Customs" the auto editors of Consumer Guide praised it as "the first really new type of custom since the heyday of the 1950s".[3] Coddington's team, led by body man Craig Naff, started with a 1948 Cadillac Series 62 Sedanette,[4][5] it went from mild, as originally proposed by Gibbons, to wild.[4] The first sketches were done on a bar napkin.[4]

The top was chopped.[4] The hood and front fenders were sectioned and combined into a tilt nose.[4] Headlights were frenched[4] and late-model Cadillac taillights frenched into the rear fins.[5] The front bumper is fitted with high-mounted dagmars, with a Moon tank between them in the grille opening.[5] The engine is a 500 cu in (8 l) Cadillac V8 with custom-built Holley fuel injection, mated to a Currie 9 inch rear axle.[4] The exhaust pipes exit through the rear bumper.[5] Springs are Koni coilovers, with a steering box from a 1985 Corvette.[6] The wheels are a 22 in (560 mm)-diameter billet aluminum design by Coddington.[4] The exterior was finished in deep purple from House of Color.[4]

CadZZilla cost Gibbons about US$900,000.[5] CadZZilla is also available as a Hot Wheels car.[7]

References

External links

• Boyd's Garage Archived 2018-09-16 at the Wayback Machine

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CadZZilla est une automobile de collection prototype Hot rod de 1996, à base de Cadillac Série 62 Sedanette de 1948. Elle appartient à Billy Gibbons (guitariste leader star du célèbre groupe de blues rock ZZ Top, fondé en 1971 à Houston au Texas). Inspirée de la Kustom Kulture américaine des années 1950, elle participe avec ZZ Top Eliminator, au mythe du groupe culte américain[1],[2]

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