What is that car exactly? It looks fantastic.
Sweet, right?
Boyd built em.
That middle one up there is called CadZZilla
"Coddington's team, led by body man Craig Naff, started with a 1948
Cadillac Series 62 Sedanette,
The very first sketches were done on a bar napkin.
[4]" (
Of course, like most visionary ideas, lol.)
Hot Rods: ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons’ Car Collection
https://teamspeed.com/articles/hot-rods-zz-tops-billy-gibbons-car-collection/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CadZZilla
https://www.boydcoddington.com/
Conceived in 1989,
CadZZilla is a customized
Cadillac, built for
Billy Gibbons of
ZZ Top. The car's appearance was designed by
Jack Chisenhall and
Larry Erickson.
[1] It is acclaimed as one of the great expressions of automotive customization.
[2] Drawing inspiration from the
lead sleds and
Mercs of the 1950s, it was different from anything that had gone before it.
CadZZilla attracted considerable attention.
Hot Rod's
Gray Baskerville called
CadZZilla "the most incredible transformation he'd ever witnessed",
[1] and in their "History of Hot Rods & Customs" the auto editors of
Consumer Guide praised it as "the first really new type of custom since the heyday of the 1950s".
[3] Coddington's team, led by body man Craig Naff, started with a 1948
Cadillac Series 62 Sedanette,
[4][5] it went (as custom projects do) from mild, as originally proposed by Gibbons, to wild.
[4] The very first sketches were done on a bar napkin.
[4]
The top was
chopped.
[4] The hood and front fenders were
sectioned and combined into a tilt nose.
[4] Headlights were
frenched[4] and late-model Cadillac taillights
frenched into the rear fins.
[5] The front bumper is fitted with high-mounted
dagmars, with a
Moon tank between them in the grille opening.
[5] The engine is a 500 cu in (8 l) Cadillac V8 with custom-built
Holley fuel injection, mated to a Currie 9 inch rear axle.
[4] The exhaust pipes exit through the rear bumper.
[5] Springs are
Koni coilovers, with a steering box from a
1985 Corvette.
[6] The wheels are a 22 in (560 mm)-diameter
billet aluminum design by Coddington.
[4] The exterior was finished in deep purple from
House of Color.
[4]
CadZZilla cost Gibbons about US$900,000.
[5] CadZZilla is also available as a
Hot Wheels car.
[7]
Guitar Art
