1970's Large American Cars: Pimpmobiles/Superfly cars(Les Dunham Coach Customs)!

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blackandgold51
August 29, 2009

Les dunham is the person who cutsomizes Caddilacs and Lincolns from his Boonton,NJ shop called Les Dunham Coach. He custmizes Cadillacs and Lincolns with large grill caps, goddess hood ornaments, custom headlight covers("Fly Lights"), and custom spoke rims("Tirantulas or Spiders"). He's also REALLY responsible for starteing the car customization(as we call SLABS,Pimpmobiles,or SuperFliers) trend throughout the United States when customized Caddilacs and Lincolns, starting 1st in the East Coast part of the U.S. such as New York and New Jersey, as we see today since the 1960's and 70's, but mostly since the 70's.

He's also responsible for the 1971 "SuperFly" Eldorado in the 1972 movie SuperFly which really belonged to a real-life pimp named K.C.

Although the car appeared in the movie SuperFly, Les Dunham did not really make the car for the movie, he made the car for K.C., then later on the movie producers for the movie asked K.C. that can they borrow his car for the movie and he said yes, as an exhange they let K.C. appear in the movie also.

Plus, Les Dunham is also resposible for the Corvorado that appeared in the 1974 James Bond movie "Live And Let Die", including a few other cars in the movie that was also customized from Les Dunham Coach.

Anyway, the East Coast(such as New York and New Jersey) started this trend back in the late 60's and 70's and the guy who was responsible is by the name of Les Dunham who owned(still owns)a shop called Dunham Coach.

His cars appeared on movies such as the 1972 film Super Fly and 1974 fil by James Bond Live And Die. Both of those films were in new york and those cars were borrowed from locals(residents)in New York.

Many aspiring drug dealers, gangsters, and pimps modified their cars during the 1970s as a result of watching Super Fly.

Which the movie Super Fly featured the 1971 Eldorado(which was customized by Dunham Coach)that belonged to a REAL New York pimp called K.C. The filmmakers asked him(K.C)to have his car on film.

Besides that, I'm a REAL LOVER of 60's and 70's cutstom Cadillacs and Lincolns, let alone Cadillacs and Lincolns themselves.

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the front of them look stupid:26

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Great Vid! I'm a huge fan of the original customized caddies also and have owned a few different custom caddies with the pimp grills, flying lady hood ornaments, belts and buckles deck straps, and huge bumper guards. I have most of these pics myself also but I've never seen the coach starting at 6:10. It looks like a Dunham version of a Stutz. What exactly is it?

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