So, Jalopnik stumbled across a video of a man and his friends tearing through the desert at full throttle in a late-model full-size Cadillac. And if that’s not enough to tickle your fancy, then get this: the group has named itself “Team Penis Cadillac”. To note, there’s a local radio show in Detroit that has a long-running joke involving the word “penis”, and we surmise it’s possible that it served as inspiration for this “team’s” name.
Outside of that theory, there’s not much concrete information about Team Penis Cadillac, and we’re hoping that it’s still around, as the video below was uploaded four years ago. In it, we see the Cadillac barreling through the dirt at wicked speeds, which it’s seemingly handling fairly well given its sheer size and mass. And girth.
So, hit the play button below for the best (and possibly the only) video of a body-on-frame Cadillac doing some off-roading in the desert. One thing is for sure: Team Penis sure has some balls for that jump near the 30-second mark.
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Hahaha! “Penis,” “Girth” and “Balls!” You made my day Sam….
Well at least this is a Cadillac built sturdy(heavy) enough to handle such treatment. IMO these and their BOF predecessors were built from “real” iron. (:
Yes, “real” iron… like this Bel Air, which — when crash tested against a new Malibu — would have resulted in an instant death for the driver:
http://gmauthority.com/blog/2009/09/iihs-celebrates-50th-anniversary-crashes-malibu-into-bel-air/
Conclusion: “real” iron only is irrelevant.
If you’re going to compare it that way, crash that late model Cadillac against the Bel Air. Things have come a long way in forty some years. I’m just saying that Cadillac is big, heavy, and tough considering we all know those pre safety conscious era cars were death traps in those circumstances. I don’t think the Bel Air could have held up like that Cadillac in the dirt, IMO.
Sometime in the early 60’s, my great grandma Peggy was driving a 1955 Oldsmobile Super 88 Sedan with her 4 children and somehow she rolled the car. My great aunt Donna (who was pregnant at the time) fell out of the window and the car rolled over her, but she was perfectly in the spot of the window so she didn’t get crushed! They all survived (besides pulling glass out of themselves for a week after..), the baby was fine but the car was totaled. They bought a new 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix with a Tri-Power 421 that is still in the family! Donna ended up dying in 2001 from breast cancer and Peggy died September, 10, 2013 at age 93 from bone and liver cancer. It was in the news and my grandma still has the original newspaper clip about the crash! Goodness, they’re old. .
Not sure if I agree. Weight, in and of itself, does not play a role. The tensile strength of the materials (metal) that makes up that weight does.
Theoretically, if a car weighs 100 pounds but is 10 times stronger than another car that weighs 5,000 pounds, it would take the abuse (hold up) much better than the 5,000 pound car. So, it’s not so much about the weight, as it is about the strength. Perhaps before advanced materials, heavier was the equivalent of stronger. But do we know for sure that the Caddy was, in fact, stronger (or heavier) than the Bel Air?
In any event, a Spark would outperform this here Cadillac and the Bel Air in a head-on collision.
Vehicle weight does play a role. Big vs. small is not the same as well engineered vehicle into a wall: Honda’s Civic does well into a wall, but against a Silverado (which does marginal against a wall), the Silvy wins (see Youtube)
As I said above, the “strength” matters more than weight.
In the link I provided above, the Bel Air weighed a bit more than the Malibu, but still “lost” to the Malibu because the Malibu was stronger.
Some things just have to be said so I’ll say them!
It’s unfortunate that members of your family died recently but if they wouldn’t of survived that crash they wouldn’t of been diagnosed with cancer!
One day you will be lying in bed and that paragraph will hit you like a 2 ton heavy thing!
Brian — you lost me; I have no idea what you mean by any of that.
Well then you need to go lay down
Perhaps keeping the discussion focused on the topic at hand is a better idea.
Alex, I do agree, the Malibu is infinitely safer BUT, the 1959 Bel Air and it’s GM siblings (up until 1964 I believe) were notoriously prone to sever side impact damage as well as “Folding” in offset frontal and rear impacts. This was well known even then. The culprit is the X-Frame design GM was fond of at the time. It forced the actual body of the car to absorb nearly all of the impact energy in a crash instead of the frame.
A traditional ladder frame would have fared much better. I’m not claiming it’s safer, but it would not have folded like that Bel Air did.
Also, if you look at crash footage as well as accident report and photos of Full Size American cars from the past (well into the early 70s as a matter of fact), you’ll find the problem was not structural integrity, but extreme stiffness relative to other cars and objects of the time. Cars then simply did not absorb impact energy and most of it was transferred directly to the occupants.
Alex you’re being too polite. Ritter, you insensitive idiot, if you can’t make an intelligent comment then keep your pie hole shut!!
My point is and was that his sob story about his family has no point in this discussion!
Say what you want about what I said, it was the truth!
Truly a man’s car 🙂 Cadillacs are strong for sure
I love Cadillac’s but I just don’t understand why people still don’t like them?
This is me and my Cadillac and YES, it is still running strong! Haha! Team Penis is really just a big joke between a bunch of our friends and it really has no meaning or reason, besides being funny! Since this footage, we have gone legit racing in the off road world, check out LIVEWIRE Racing on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivewireRacing