1940 Cadillac Limo V16

This car was in the same section of the show near the 1929 Rolls Royce I wrote about earlier. The Cadillac sold while I was there for $80,000. From the Leake Collector Car Auction. I ran through the viewing area and got quick shots of cars while my video battery held on a little longer.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Cadillac
• V16
• 1940
• Collector
• Auction

[Mrtriumphchopper]

Not only did Cadillac have a V16, but two! One OHV and one flathead,both for a very limited market. Imagine the cost of engineering two distinct motors when money was still tight. And this was during the Depression! Then there was ths the ultra-lux,ultra-expensive 1957-60 Eldorado Brougham,a modern mastepiece. So why are they having problems making cars on the Grand Scale these days?

[talfacprez]

@Mrtriumphchopper When Lincoln came out with a V-12 Cadillac had to out do the competition with a V-16. What an awesome competition that was back in the day. People assumed the V-16 from the early 30s was the same engine as the later engine that lasted up to 1940. Thanks for pointing it out for my other subscribers.

[Mrtriumphchopper]

@talfacprez Not to make a meal of it,but Lincoln didn't offer the Twelve until 1932, two years after the sixteen-cylinder Cadillac and one year after it's V-12.Lincoln was certainly a major force in the industry,and rightly so.Actually, GM/Cadillac was going after the Packard,America's #1 luxury car.Don't get me wrong,I love all American luxury cars equally,just a little bit more "The Standard of the World", Cadillac.Let's get on Ford's case to offer a "REAL" Lincoln again,and SOON!

[talfacprez]

@Mrtriumphchopper I am sorry I wasn't specific enough. When we were at the Ford Museum in Michigan there was a Classic Lincoln Expert that brought up the fact that when the economy hadn't recovered from the depression which made the first Caddy V-16 way too expensive to build. The 2nd V-16 series you pointed out WAS the one that made Lincoln break into a sweat.

[Mrtrumphchopper]

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[Mrtrumphchopper]

@talfacprez EAT MY CUM YA FREAK

[Mrtrumphchopper]

You goddamned voreaphellic coon rapers. I'm a fucking public wank cranker and y'all can suck my jizz you pig fuckers. WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP

[Mrtriumphchopper]

@tomsriv The Lincoln Twelve referred to as being junk was the Zephyr and Continental as a cost cutting measure because of the Depression. I fully assure you,the model K,KA,and KB Twelves were built like damn locomotive engines!They were favorites of Eliot Ness and Al Capone for their famous toughness and durability.Most of the Zephyr's and Connies had their faulty engines replaced w/ Cadillac'c excellent OHV V-8's and 3-speed manual tranny early on.

[talfacprez]

@tomsriv The V-016 seemed to run more efficiently in the 1939 Cadillacs due to all the extra ventilation but YES I have heard about heat problems and internal problems due to the engines getting HOT. I would STILL own one too. I may dig through my still photos from several years ago when I found a 1939 V-16 2 door convertible that was from a museum that shut down. It has to be the coolest V-16 Cadillac I had ever seen.

[tomsriv]

@Mrtriumphchopper Everyone I have talked to that had a flathead V12 LIncoln said they were junk. Overheating problems and no power. But I would still take one! They made them until 47 or 48 where Cadillac stopped the V12 in 37 and the V16 in 40. Packard stopped the V12 after 39.

[Mrtriumphchopper]

@talfacprez Lincoln,as it turns out,needn't have worried much. It was well known the Twelve would lug around a 6000lb car in absolute smoothness and silence, and yet cover a quarter million miles between overhauls,given proper care.Look at what we have 70 odd years later,and they call it progress. HMPH!!!