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| Cadill V-16 (sotis known as the Cadill Sixteen) was Cadill’s top-of-the-line car from its January 1930 launch until production ceased in 1940 as the war in Europe killed sales. All were finied to custom order Julius Peppers Super Bowl 50 Jersey , and the car was built in very small numbers; only 4076 cars were constructed in the eleven years the model was offered. The majority of these were built in the single year of 1930, before the Great Depression really took hold. This was the first V16 powered car to reh production status in the United States.
In 1926, Cadill began the developnt of a new, “multi-cylinder” car. A custor requirent was seen for a car powered by an engine simultaneously more powerful and smoother than any hitherto available. Developnt proceeded in great secrecy over the next few years; a number of prototype cars were built and tested as the new engine was developed, while at the sa ti Cadill chief Lawrence Fier and GM’s stylist Harley Earl toured Europe in search of inspiration from Europe’s finest cohbuilders. Unlike many builders of luxury cars, who sold bare chassis to be clothed by outside cohbuilding firms, General Motors had purchased the cohbuilders Fleeood and Fier Body to keep all the business in-house. Bare Cadill chassis could be purchased if a buyer insisted, but the intention was that few would do so.
It was not until after the stock market cra of 1929 that Cadill announced to the world the availability of the costliest Cadill yet, the new V-16. The new vehicle was first displayed at New York’s automobile ow on January 4, 1930.
The new car attrted rave reviews from the press and huge public attention. Cadill started production of the new car imdiately. January production averaged a couple of cars per day, but was then ramped up to enty-o cars per day. By April Josh Sitton Super Bowl 50 Jersey , 1,000 units had been built, and by June, 2,000 cars. These could be ordered with a wide variety of bodywork. The Fleeood catalog for the 1930 V-16 included 10 basic body styles; there was also an envelope containing so 30 additional designer’s drawings. Research by the Cadill-La Salle Club, Inc. puts at 70 the number of different jobstyle numbers built by Fier and Fleeood on the sixteen chassis.
Beginning in June 1930, six new V-16s participated in a promotional tour of major European cities including Paris, Anerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, Utrecht Jordy Nelson Super Bowl 50 Jersey , Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, M?nich, N?remberg, Vienna (where they won prizes), Berne John Kuhn Super Bowl 50 Jersey , Geneva, Lausanne, Z?rich, Madrid, San Sebastian, La Baule and Angers. On the return journey from Spain, the V16 caravan stopped also in the town of Cadill, in south-western France, although that city bears no relationip to the marque, other than its na.
After the peak in V-16 orders in mid 1930, production fell precipitously. During October 1930 James Starks Super Bowl 50 Jersey , only 54 cars were built. The lowest figures for the 452452A cars of 1930-31 were August 1931 (7 units) and November 1931 (6 units). Minimum production continued throughout the rest of the decade with a re 50 units being built both in 1935 and in 1937. 1940 was only marginally better with a total of 51 units. Not surprisingly, Cadill later estimated that they lost money on every single V-16 they sold.
Later production through 1937
Production of the original V-16 continued under various model nas through 1937. The body was redesigned in 1933 as the model 452-C. Innovations included Fier no draft individually controlled ventilation (I.C.V. or vent windows).
For 1934, the body was redesigned again and denoted 452-D. The V-16 now featured the Fier Body “turret-top” all-steel roof, though the cars were still built by Fleeood. This sa basic design would remain virtually unchanged through 1937. With a wheelbase of 154? and a curb weight of up to 6,600 lbs these are perhaps the largest standard production cars ever produced in the United States. Combined production for the 1934 and 1935 model years was 150. It was redesignated the Series 90 in 1936 as Cadill reorganized their model nas. 52 units were sold that year, with nearly half ordered as limousines. Hydraulic brakes were added for 1937, the last year of production. 50 vehicles were produced.
1938-1940
The V-16 “Series 90? and V-12 “Series 80 and 85?, were essentially rged for 1938 with the introduction of the new L-head V-16. The new engine was an “L Head” (AKA flathead) design, and featured a wider (135 degree) v-angle, in carburetors, in fuel pumps James Jones Super Bowl 50 Jersey , in distributors, in water pumps and a nine main bearing crankaft (pared to the OHV V-16's five bearing crank) and produced the sa 185 hp (138 kW) as later versions of the original V-16 with even greater smoothness and endowed the ’38-’40 Sixteen’s with the swiftest aeleration of any car in the world at the ti regardless of weight as well as slightly improved fuel economy over the OHV V-16 cars. This engine was nearly silent at idle and turbine-smooth in operation. The wheelbase was reduced to 141 in (3581 mm), the body remained over 200 in (5080 mm). The “Sixteen’s” (as Cadill referred to them) were basically series 75 cars with the new V-16 engine although they differed from the firewall forward from the V-8 cars and had several other trim differences. The instrunt panels were identical to and changed yearly with the V-8 cars from 1938 to 1940. Only the ’38 Sixteen’s had a horn button which had “Sixteen” in art deco script; the ’39 and ’40 models, like the V-8 had the Cadill crest on the button. 315 were sold in the first year, 138 in the next. The production of the 1940 models ended in December 1939.
Engines
Two different V-16 engines were used by Cadill:
. The Series 452 from 1930 until 1937, a narrow 45? V angle OHV (overhead valve) engine.
. The Series
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