1976 Cadillac Mirage Is The El Camino’s Sinister Older Brother: Video
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We’ve all heard of the Chevrolet El Camino, the gutted Chevelle-esque pickup that remains a cult classic to this day. The body style lives on in Australia where the Holden Ute, based on a Commodore, and still keeps us jealous nothing like that is offered here today.
But what about Cadillac? Cadillac surely never made a pickup truck, right? Wrong.
Enter the 1976 Cadillac Mirage. A 1976 Cadillac Coupe Deville with a usable truck bed, and downright sinister style. Luckily, Drive stumbled across the 1976 Mirage and decided to take a closer look at how this car came about.
Cadillac commissioned only 204 of these 4,500-pound luxury utes, custom made by Gene Winfield. Winfield cut them, stretched them, and then slapped a pickup bed in the rear, and there you have it: a Cadillac Mirage. Winfield even included a separate door for your golf clubs. We can’t get over how utterly 1970s classy that is.
Power came from a mammoth 8.2-liter V8. Torque? 400 lb-ft. Nice. Horsepower? 200. Not so nice.
But with that amount of torque ready and willing, the 1976 Mirage will get up and scoot its way still, as we can see in the accompanying video. Really, you should see what this car is all about.
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Not even in the same game dude. If you’re going to throw things out there at us at least get them in the same playing field, ie. Cadillac conversions and such. On a side note, didn’t Glen Campbell have one of these amongst others who have had similar conversions?
Didn’t these things used to be called flower cars? Until the 50’s/60’s every undertaker in America had one.