Modern Art Monday: 1956 Cadillac Coupe "Resto-Mod"

So last weekend, this olelongrooffan was up in the World Center of Racing to attend the SCCA Spring Track Days with my younger brother, thejeepjunkie. As this was his first time to attend a track days weekend (yeah, I know) he was rather excited about it. Me? Other than the fact I would be attending the deflowering of another virgin at the Daytona International Speedway, not so much. Well, I arose Saturday morning to clear and sunny skies and jumped on Florida Highway 9 to head to points north. About 50 miles south of my destination the skies clouded over and opened up with near monsoon like conditions. As I was aware track days tended to be hit and miss when inclement weather showed its ugly face, I was interested to see what would be up this day there on the infield course. Well, I arrived, contacted thejeepjunkie and was informed his son, the Kid, had slipped off an Interstate on ramp and landed in a flooded swale alongside said ramp and thejeepjunkie and a bunch of Florida’s finest black and tan car driving dudes were on their way to rescue him. As was this olelongrooffan.

Now this olelongrooffan is confident my fellow Hoons are wondering how in God’s name does any of this pertain to to a 1956 restomod and more specifically, Modern Art Monday?

Well by the time we were able to eradicate the Kid’s black Ranger from said swale, stand around chatting it up about how lucky he is to have his pop’s friends being who they are and make dang sure you don’t let your mother know this has transpired, most of the morning was spent. Once all of the assembled vehicles (about 15 or so) had made it on their way to a new destination, thejeepjunkie calls his Neon driving buddy out in the yellow garages at my former local track. Turns out the NeonDrivingDude was calling it a day as he wasn’t all that keen on catching one of those SAFER barrier walls in the rain. “Let’s hook up tomorrow,” was his response to thejeepjunkie. Well, we chatted it up a bit and thejeepjunkie was gonna head by theracedude’s garage for a few cold pops. He inquired if I “would like to join or you gonna head to the track?” Well, as this olelongrooffan is a reluctant teetotaler these days, a few cold pops didn’t sound like much fun nor did, for that matter, hanging in the rain watching some fast cars go slow around a rain soaked track. Yeah, this olelongrooffan is jaded as heck these days.

I decided to just head on back down Highway 9 and did just that. On the way up that morning I had seen this super honking Osh Kosh truck parked just off Eisenhower’s Highway System and wanted to check it out on the way back to TheStuccoBox. So I headed out and just about where I thought that truck would be, I exited off that Highway System in search of that elusive truck. I never did find it that day but it is okay, I have an adventure in reserve.

In the meantime, I was headed down US 1 up there a few towns north and spotted a 55 Chevy Belair restomod sitting in front of a car lot along with a whole dang bunch of other lead sleds and the like. In their defense, they did have a bone stock sweet 61 Cadillac coupe along with a couple GTX’s of the same vintage as I had seen at theBarrett-Jackson show a few weeks ago. But those cars are not what this Modern Art Post is all about.

It is about this 1956 Cadillac restomod. Now, this olelongrooffan has gone on the record, more than one time, about how I prefer my Hoonable vehicles to be stock and my opinion has not changed with the sighting of this Caddy. Prior to this sighting, a majority of the restomod’s this olelongrooffan has seen were mmerely slammed with huge wheels installed and a ubiquitous SBC installed under the bonnet of it. Of course there have been a few exceptions but they have been far and between.

This one falls into the latter category. In addition to the modern Cadillac interior with the correct number of pedals and speeds on that console mounted shifter, also had a CTS-V LS2 engine installed under that bonnet. SBC? Forgetaboutit. This thing is beautiful, for what it is. Not only that, every nut and bolt was brand new and the tone of the exhaust when CameronTheMan started it up sure tripped my trigger.

I will say this dude, who badged this creation as his own sure does some fine work and overall, this thing would work well as a member of my livery, even though it would not get quite as much drive time as that Cabellero longroof I shared last week.

But it is well put together and stay tuned for some other sweet stuff from CameronTheMan’s place.

Oh Yeah, asking price for this Work of Art is $199 large, trades considered.”

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