This is the exact spec my mother had when I was a kid. After she put the hard top on the 1st time she never took it off again. Her last car was an XLR V, I have it now. She passed away last April.
1992 Cadillac made this Allante. McDonald's switched out their apple pie. I proposed to my future ex wife. It was a year of many things that seemed like a good idea, but ended in disaster.
Owner of 1989 Pearl White Allante since 1993. Have the original hard top and the soft top is original, looks good as new with no rips or tears. Soft top lowering and raising requires following the exact sequence you demonstrated. The hard top being aluminum is not that heavy and can easily be removed by two people. Having owned the vehicle for 30 years, the Allante resources online allows for replacement parts be obtained at a reasonable price compared to current vehicle replacement parts. The Allante is a cruiser, most comfortable traveling in a straight line with the top down. You're comment was right, anyone younger than 45 has no idea what the car is or who made it. Almost every time I fill it up someone will stop me to ask about it. Funniest was three young boys on their bicycles who stopped and saw the electronic dash with all the buttons and they thought the "Soviet-era" yellow on black text was the coolest. Keep up the great videos, it was great to see you review a car that I actually own.
First time I saw an Allante was on the second floor of an office building in Toronto. Since I had not yet seen (nor heard) of the car I thought it was a "Canadian" Cadillac and very cool indeed.
@@georgemartin1436 I had a friend who had one back in 1995, I don't which year it was, but, it was a great driver and and we had a great ride in it with the top down!
Soviet and Cadillac in the same review - top marks! BTW this is the problem Brits have with American Cars. "Good in a straight line" The UK doesn't have any straight lines except for railway tracks and old Roman roads - ability to corner and gip are essential :0)
Elegantly simple design. And that's a nice example for sure. Somebody in the faithful will buy that in a heartbeat. ps, Us long time viewers knew it all along: Bill is just a softie at heart. Thanks for rescuing these elderly dogs, giving them a chance to live out their years in style and being loved as they deserve. pps, Happy Thanksgiving to you and all the viewers out there.
Bill, thank you for presenting this car as it should be. On my second Allante... sold my XLR for what I paid for it after 5 years, and bought a lovely '88 with 55k miles for dirt cheap, and loving it.
Now here's something we can really sink our teeth into! And it's a proper 50 minute diatribe?! What a lovely Thanksgiving treat! Thanks Bill, and happy Thanksgiving. Stay 'safe' everyone! 🤟🥃🥴
You’re doing an awesome job on these videos Bill! I thoroughly enjoy all of them. I can sympathize with you during the summer months concerning the weather conditions. I’m from southwest Louisiana and it’s horrible also. The eighty degree mornings are very depressing. Beginning to cool off a bit, so maybe we will survive another year!
Always wanted one of these. The design was handsome…better than the Eldorado it was based on. And as usual, by the time GM got the kinks out, they killed it.
Nothing less than an engineering degree to know how the top works, yes I own one. 1993 Northstar. Just love the dam thing. Great GT touring car, gets good mileage too. lots of power from the 295 HP 4.6 Liter. 12yrs ownership, and I still love it. I think I said that already
Thanks for sharing the history of this vehicle, Bill. We would be lost without this channel. Bill cannot be replaced as he is priceless, but Florida can. Florida became a liability; I left and never looked back. Now, I have it made; new location, a new real-life castle I call home for now. We are all living on borrowed time; you only live once. Happy Thanksgiving.
Been to ft myers lately? It's turned into a ghetto! The 10 o'clock news is nothing but shootings, murders and burglaries. We left Naples awhile ago, they can keep that 98% humidity and the snowbirds. Naples was a diamond in the 70's and 80's, but you couldn't pay me to move back there today.
To those leaving Florida: Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. There are already too many of us living here who LIKE living in the Sunshine State.
8600,-$ at the auction in Punta Gorda for this beautiful Cadillac is much too little. I am very sad that it was not possible for me to take part in the auction, because I’m living in Germany .
Actually, we've never ever fully recovered from the '73-'74 recession - our standard of living fell so far during that time that we've never been able to fully dig ourselves out from that mess.
Sadly so did cars quality and soul. The only good thing that happened to cars was the catalytic converter to stop the smog but they ruined hp and had slow cars for decades. And also the safety of new cars is a marvel in its own. I survived a car collision and I dont think i would in a 50s or 60s car as much as I love them.
@@rudolphguarnacci197numbers don't lie. That's when wages just barely kept up with inflation spirals due to OPEC manipulation. Beginning lin 82, the rich began wealth accumulation at the expense of the American worker. 86 Bush began negotiating NAFTA, executed with Mexico and Canada, was ratified be 85% republican and 24% Democrat congregational votes and signed into law by Clinton.... the MCA is a death nail to US labor once the BUY America act of the ten year infrastructure bills are complete, if another free market republican comes into power and sends those jobs back to China.
I'm so glad you're still doing these amazingly informative, nostalgic and historically based, reviews of so many incredible automobiles. Automobiles that i grew up learning about, seen, owned, or wish i could've owned. I really enjoy them and they bring back fantastic memory's. Thank you Bill!
much nicer than the Chrysler TC which looked almost the same as the lebaron. Also it was used in stephen kings the stand driven by Lloyd (Miguel Ferrer) during the pre outbreak robbery scene. Yes FWD was the downside but convincing GM to make a corvette based Cadillac during this period was impossible. The XLR was amazing but it was the one and only time GM let anything be based on a vette. They just dont want anything to come close to their halo car.
GM has an unfortunate habit of killing a car, just when they finally get it right. The Fiero is just one of the more famous examples, along with the Allante.
Yeah, even the forgettable Cadillac Cimmaron had actually evolved into a not-so-bad vehicle by its last two model years. The same with the poorly executed Buick Reatta; by its last year, 1991, it had the right engine and transmission combination, but it was too little, too late. Not to mention the discontinuation of the larger rear drive vehicles such as the Chevy Caprice, Buick Roadmaster, and Cadillac Fleetwood; they were pretty good and reliable vehicles by the end of their production after the 1996 model year, and are stll desirable by many nowadays. Finally, even the Chevy Volt had actually become a pretty reliable gasoline engine/plug-in electric vehicle in its last two model years, 2018-19. But alas, GM, for whatever reason, discontinued it in favor of the fully electric Chevy Bolt, which has had more than its share of problems, including fires.
If a car looks THIS cool, I don't care what anyone says. GM this, GM that. I never cared. These cars were amazing and I wish they would still make cars like this. New cars today are boring trash compared to this.
Bill, I always talk to people about the apple pie fiasco back in the day and they always look at me like I’m crazy.You definitely are a kindred spirit.Mike the Greek
Wow. I had to click this one. McDonald’s changed from beef tallow to vegetable oil in the 90s probably the same time they changed the apple pies. That was definitely the start of the downfall of modern society!
Gauges are always appreciated, even in a Cadillac. Did notice that the gauge in this car indicated the vehicle was running kinda hot!..Also, I prefer FWD in any car, for the sake of traction.....GM really should have offered this fine car with AWD! No more torque-steer problems. That vehicle is so beautiful!
As a owner of 1992 Cadillac Allante I can tell that the car is a very fun to drive here in Europe. Good handeling and I love speed sensitive suspension!! Yes it stil works after 200.000 mi on the odo!
LOVE your insight Bill......I remember these cars roaming in North West Ohio.....mostly red ones.in 1987,1988....must have been the color of choice.GREAT WORK BILL...TRULY enjoy your reviews and information!!!!!!!!
Watch that temp ,, looks to be running a little warm , those engines don't tolerate overheating very well. Quite a nice example , thanks for doing the video.
Where are the side turn signal markers? Integrated into the molding strip?
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An older aquaintance of mine, purchased the hard-top version of this beautiful car, in their first year. He never drove outside of his neighbourhood, (Vancouver's West End) and had CONSTANT tranny problems. No pun intended, considering that part of town.
A pretty car. Its fatal flaw in my view is that it was front wheel drive. You can't compete with other luxury sports cars and be front wheel drive. Mercedes, Lexus, BMW, Jaguar are all rear wheel with their cars that go up against this one. The later Cadillac XLR that followed this one finally got it right.
Hilarious... This episode is gold, Bill... BTW, speaking of the civilization downfall and McDonald's, let's go a little further back to when they stopped cooking fries in beef tallow...
I'm 51 and English and I've liked these since they came out. They have everything that pleased me as a kid, soft top, flashy inside, big wheels. But the adult in me always liked the GT aspec, the handsome proportions and I still love the flashy interior.
I like these cars. Was fortunate enough to drive one, when Moritz Cadillac in Dallas/Fort Worth let me try one, when I went there to pick up parts for my own Cadillac. Was in your area over Christmas and surprised to see a handfull of these in traffic. Thank you for a nice review.
Decades ago I knew someone with an Allante, and he told me how much a replacement battery cost. I believe I must have gone into shock then, because mercifully, I cannot remember today what he had told me.
This video has inspired me to open the fully automated soft top on my 1998 Mercedes SL600...on which I just spent FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS having the top hydraulics rebuilt. 😥
Watching your video by chance and absolutely loved it,especially the way that you digress and talk about your dogs and the duck story was funny also your voice is something that I could listen to all day long.😊
@47:30 looks like she’s flirting with overheating, Bill- I’d check to see if the electric fans are operable before you let it idle more than a couple minutes. That needle was dangerously up there, especially for one of those engines
Great video, Bill. Lovely, well-preserved example of an Allante that fits in beautifully in Florida with all those palm trees. I had a 91 Allante and had similar feelings about it. Loved the design but the front wheel drive application just didn't feel right. I loved driving it down Lakeshore drive in Grosse Pointe, Michigan on summer days with the top down. Super nice cruiser. I wish GM would have sorted out this car at the beginning, as you said. Keep up the good work! Love your videos and weather commentary.
I got to say Bill you’re opening statements on your videos are really the best part of the video. I love the rest of it to but the first five minutes I love it and I feel your pain I absolutely feel your pain.
Thanks Bill, much needed, I will try and fit in the small cavern behind the front seats as long as I hear me some Rush. Have a great end of the week everybody!
I love the look of these cars ever since I was a youngster checking out cars that were passing me by.... I would still roll in one of those today if I could ...thank you very much for this upload .... You really do a good job in your presentations acknowledge of vehicles and you bring out a lot of vehicles I like to view
One of the cleanest cars GM ever made. Simple Elegance. Pininfarina did a great job making it sleek and modern yet still very much American in its aesthetic. It's amazing how many times GM had a good idea but sabotaged it by half-assing the quality, then scrambled to fix it after the negative stigma already existed. Anyone who could afford one must have had a garage and therefore could leave the top down most of the time. It's not the worst top I've seen.
That’s a beautiful car. My uncle bought one of those when they came out. I think he even went to Italy to see the manufacturing process. I remember my parents thinking he was totally off his rocker.
Hey Bill, Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family ( including Dalton 🙄) Thanks for the weather & animal report!!! Back in the early nineties I had the hots for the Cadillac 2 seater roadster!!! I almost bought one but several people (including the salesman) discouraged me so I ended up buying a Mark Vll LSC that I kept for 20 years & 300,000 miles!!!
The "garbage truck" Seville design was led by the same guy who designed the 1968 Eldorado, 1977 downsizing, 1976 Seville, 1985 downsizing, the 1979 Eldorado and other GM cars from the 1960 through the 1990s. It wasn't a bad design as it was the most popular Seville ever and actually was a trend setter.
Thanks for the review on this car, a buddy had one in 98 and we had a good bit of fun with it! Sold it through our tobacco store in 2000. Happy Thanksgiving Bill see ya soon!
I remember seeing these in showrooms, lots or on the road. They looked so cool and classy in the day. Today's version of that too me would the xlr... one I've seen and wanted for a while... but $$.
The Allante has really grown on my over the past few years. I used to totally ignore them because they weren't a tradition Cadillac boat, but frankly these cars are something else entirely and are a fascinating look into the failings of 80s GM.
Bill,you're so much fun just listening to your crazy stories, that many times I forget about the car you're talking about 😄But always alot of knowledge about any car you're doing review at🙂
I come for every comment that isn't related to the car. It's so funny. The complaining about the lawn people across the street in this episode made me bend in half laughing. 😆
OMG, Bill, can't believe you just did this Allante, you did the red one 4 years ago, well I am in the process is saving am 89 that was parked for 11 years, it is on my channel.. You are the best,,
This is the exact spec my mother had when I was a kid. After she put the hard top on the 1st time she never took it off again.
Her last car was an XLR V, I have it now. She passed away last April.
Sorry for your loss
@@jonathangrimshaw9822
Thank you
I'm sorry to hear that.
Your Momma had some class.
1992
Cadillac made this Allante.
McDonald's switched out their apple pie.
I proposed to my future ex wife.
It was a year of many things that seemed like a good idea, but ended in disaster.
That last part made me laugh
Wow
Bruh😂
Owner of 1989 Pearl White Allante since 1993. Have the original hard top and the soft top is original, looks good as new with no rips or tears. Soft top lowering and raising requires following the exact sequence you demonstrated. The hard top being aluminum is not that heavy and can easily be removed by two people. Having owned the vehicle for 30 years, the Allante resources online allows for replacement parts be obtained at a reasonable price compared to current vehicle replacement parts. The Allante is a cruiser, most comfortable traveling in a straight line with the top down. You're comment was right, anyone younger than 45 has no idea what the car is or who made it. Almost every time I fill it up someone will stop me to ask about it. Funniest was three young boys on their bicycles who stopped and saw the electronic dash with all the buttons and they thought the "Soviet-era" yellow on black text was the coolest.
Keep up the great videos, it was great to see you review a car that I actually own.
This should be a pinned comment!
Thanks for sharing your experience with this cool car.
First time I saw an Allante was on the second floor of an office building in Toronto. Since I had not yet seen (nor heard) of the car I thought it was a "Canadian" Cadillac and very cool indeed.
@@georgemartin1436 I had a friend who had one back in 1995, I don't which year it was, but, it was a great driver and and we had a great ride in it with the top down!
Soviet and Cadillac in the same review - top marks! BTW this is the problem Brits have with American Cars. "Good in a straight line" The UK doesn't have any straight lines except for railway tracks and old Roman roads - ability to corner and gip are essential :0)
What do you do with the hard top after you have removed it? Thanks.
Elegantly simple design. And that's a nice example for sure. Somebody in the faithful will buy that in a heartbeat.
ps, Us long time viewers knew it all along: Bill is just a softie at heart. Thanks for rescuing these elderly dogs, giving them a chance to live out their years in style and being loved as they deserve.
pps, Happy Thanksgiving to you and all the viewers out there.
Nice rebadged cavalier
It is a nice story.
One of the most beautiful convertible cars of the era. Particularly with the roof up. Those rear quarterlights were worth the effort.
I lost it when you said your backyard looks like Normandy. Good video as always.
Bill, thank you for presenting this car as it should be. On my second Allante... sold my XLR for what I paid for it after 5 years, and bought a lovely '88 with 55k miles for dirt cheap, and loving it.
That's a curious move.. You came to the right place.
Now here's something we can really sink our teeth into! And it's a proper 50 minute diatribe?! What a lovely Thanksgiving treat! Thanks Bill, and happy Thanksgiving. Stay 'safe' everyone! 🤟🥃🥴
This is the kind of complaining that I can get behind
"The NEW Allante!" -Kelly Bundy (Married With Children)
But can you do the Bundy Bounce?
Bill you make the best friggen videos… I can listen to you ramble all day…. Keep up the excellent rambling sir.
On the TV show Dallas, JR Ewing drove one and stopped driving Mercedes. Great show.
You’re doing an awesome job on these videos Bill! I thoroughly enjoy all of them. I can sympathize with you during the summer months concerning the weather conditions. I’m from southwest Louisiana and it’s horrible also. The eighty degree mornings are very depressing. Beginning to cool off a bit, so maybe we will survive another year!
...not to mention the military exercises as well 24:44 ..lol, ok so it became a car review with a WWI Omaha beach background theme.
39:42..🦜
Love Bill's sense of humour. This was J.R Ewing's car in Dallas
Always wanted one of these. The design was handsome…better than the Eldorado it was based on. And as usual, by the time GM got the kinks out, they killed it.
Nothing less than an engineering degree to know how the top works, yes I own one. 1993 Northstar. Just love the dam thing. Great GT touring car, gets good mileage too. lots of power from the 295 HP 4.6 Liter. 12yrs ownership, and I still love it. I think I said that already
Thanks for sharing the history of this vehicle, Bill. We would be lost without this channel. Bill cannot be replaced as he is priceless, but Florida can. Florida became a liability; I left and never looked back. Now, I have it made; new location, a new real-life castle I call home for now. We are all living on borrowed time; you only live once. Happy Thanksgiving.
Been to ft myers lately? It's turned into a ghetto! The 10 o'clock news is nothing but shootings, murders and burglaries. We left Naples awhile ago, they can keep that 98% humidity and the snowbirds. Naples was a diamond in the 70's and 80's, but you couldn't pay me to move back there today.
I agree with you 💯 % about Florida. Had to get out of there and now living my best life!
To those leaving Florida: Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. There are already too many of us living here who LIKE living in the Sunshine State.
Only those that have been in florida for decades are leaving. We saw the change over the years and it's not for the better.
Funny how you denigrate Florida, yet don't name the "awesome" state you moved to. Whatever. Native Floridians won't miss you...
8600,-$ at the auction in Punta Gorda for this beautiful Cadillac is much too little. I am very sad that it was not possible for me to take part in the auction, because I’m living in Germany .
Actually, we've never ever fully recovered from the '73-'74 recession - our standard of living fell so far during that time that we've never been able to fully dig ourselves out from that mess.
Yup, it all went to pot after that
No 💩
Sadly so did cars quality and soul. The only good thing that happened to cars was the catalytic converter to stop the smog but they ruined hp and had slow cars for decades. And also the safety of new cars is a marvel in its own. I survived a car collision and I dont think i would in a 50s or 60s car as much as I love them.
Wrong. You have a very short memory.
@@rudolphguarnacci197numbers don't lie. That's when wages just barely kept up with inflation spirals due to OPEC manipulation. Beginning lin 82, the rich began wealth accumulation at the expense of the American worker. 86 Bush began negotiating NAFTA, executed with Mexico and Canada, was ratified be 85% republican and 24% Democrat congregational votes and signed into law by Clinton.... the MCA is a death nail to US labor once the BUY America act of the ten year infrastructure bills are complete, if another free market republican comes into power and sends those jobs back to China.
Very sorry for your loss. We're cat people, but go through the same pain.... nice that you rescued one! Bless your hearts.
Same here.
“The backyard is beginning to look like Normandy” will forever be burned into my mind.
Sounds like you were there 😂
Shell-shocked? 😂
I'm so glad you're still doing these amazingly informative, nostalgic and historically based, reviews of so many incredible automobiles. Automobiles that i grew up learning about, seen, owned, or wish i could've owned. I really enjoy them and they bring back fantastic memory's. Thank you Bill!
much nicer than the Chrysler TC which looked almost the same as the lebaron. Also it was used in stephen kings the stand driven by Lloyd (Miguel Ferrer) during the pre outbreak robbery scene. Yes FWD was the downside but convincing GM to make a corvette based Cadillac during this period was impossible. The XLR was amazing but it was the one and only time GM let anything be based on a vette. They just dont want anything to come close to their halo car.
Should have been built on the P-body chassis. (Fiero)
XLR was an entirely different car from Corvette. The two cars attract a different clientele.
GM has an unfortunate habit of killing a car, just when they finally get it right. The Fiero is just one of the more famous examples, along with the Allante.
And now they're doing it to the Camaro.
probably gonna go electric like everything else seems to be going.
@valen
Corvair, Vega, Citation, Fiero, Allante to name a few.
Yeah, even the forgettable Cadillac Cimmaron had actually evolved into a not-so-bad vehicle by its last two model years. The same with the poorly executed Buick Reatta; by its last year, 1991, it had the right engine and transmission combination, but it was too little, too late. Not to mention the discontinuation of the larger rear drive vehicles such as the Chevy Caprice, Buick Roadmaster, and Cadillac Fleetwood; they were pretty good and reliable vehicles by the end of their production after the 1996 model year, and are stll desirable by many nowadays. Finally, even the Chevy Volt had actually become a pretty reliable gasoline engine/plug-in electric vehicle in its last two model years, 2018-19. But alas, GM, for whatever reason, discontinued it in favor of the fully electric Chevy Bolt, which has had more than its share of problems, including fires.
Get it right?...If I recall these had the " famous" Northstar engine
If a car looks THIS cool, I don't care what anyone says. GM this, GM that. I never cared. These cars were amazing and I wish they would still make cars like this. New cars today are boring trash compared to this.
😂 The obvious sarcasm in every sentence! 😂
@@doug6191
I'm not being sarcastic
@@RetroRoberino That's the part that is scary! lol
The rambling stories are back! This is the content I come here for!
Great video Bill. Enjoy each and every one of them. Thank you sir!
Bill, I always talk to people about the apple pie fiasco back in the day and they always look at me like I’m crazy.You definitely are a kindred spirit.Mike the Greek
The fried must have been a prized item with the baked being a severe degrade.
I absolutely love your commentary and the way you make these videos. You’re very entertaining and I enjoy every one. Keep doing what you do Bill.
He is also very well informed about the cars he reviews.
A fantastic coverage Bill! So detailed! It's a brilliant finish with great lines!
Good evening Bill from Ron in a very cold and wet Manchester glad to have you back with a new video
Likewise London! Bet Bill would love our cold weather 😅
@@Future-Classic-Cars Yes Bill would be chipper
always great to see a video. It’s a chilly 38 degrees where i’m at.
Wow. I had to click this one. McDonald’s changed from beef tallow to vegetable oil in the 90s probably the same time they changed the apple pies. That was definitely the start of the downfall of modern society!
17:43 even back then GM had the “DIC” driver information center. It’s still quoted that way today in modern GM manuals.
back to a 50 min. review. Love it
Gauges are always appreciated, even in a Cadillac. Did notice that the gauge in this car indicated the vehicle was running kinda hot!..Also, I prefer FWD in any car, for the sake of traction.....GM really should have offered this fine car with AWD! No more torque-steer problems. That vehicle is so beautiful!
i noticed that too and the sppedo was off too
As a owner of 1992 Cadillac Allante I can tell that the car is a very fun to drive here in Europe.
Good handeling and I love speed sensitive suspension!!
Yes it stil works after 200.000 mi on the odo!
I went and looked it up. It sold for $8600. Beautiful car.
GM did some interesting things in the late 80s, early 90s with the Allante, GNX, Typhoon/Cyclone, Riatta, turbo TA, etc
Exactly!!!!! Cool stuff
Heartwarming dog story for thanksgiving, thank you!! I needed it. Love this car...
After all these years still looks great.
LOVE your insight Bill......I remember these cars roaming in North West Ohio.....mostly red ones.in 1987,1988....must have been the color of choice.GREAT WORK BILL...TRULY enjoy your reviews and information!!!!!!!!
Always happy to see a new review. I'd like to request one for the future.. a Buick Reata.
Thanks! Have a great Thanksgiving!
I always liked the look of the Allante. Thanks for featuring it.
You are right that had they made this a Corvette based, rear driver it would have been a lasting success.
Watch that temp ,, looks to be running a little warm , those engines don't tolerate overheating very well. Quite a nice example , thanks for doing the video.
Great review Bill.
THANKS
Beautiful machine!
Where are the side turn signal markers? Integrated into the molding strip?
An older aquaintance of mine, purchased the hard-top version of this beautiful car, in their first year. He never drove outside of his neighbourhood, (Vancouver's West End) and had CONSTANT tranny problems. No pun intended, considering that part of town.
There was a Corvette based Cadillac roadster, I don't remember what it was called, XLR I think.
The whole Allante idea seems like something the WOPR would think up. Cheyenne Mountain, home of the WOPR.
i guess i am the only one who finds the war-games reference hysterical. describes this car perfectly.
Can it change your grade in Biology class?
A pretty car. Its fatal flaw in my view is that it was front wheel drive. You can't compete with other luxury sports cars and be front wheel drive. Mercedes, Lexus, BMW, Jaguar are all rear wheel with their cars that go up against this one. The later Cadillac XLR that followed this one finally got it right.
Front wheel drive works better for ordinary street driving.
Every sports car is RWD or AWD now. Not sure why the world was so fascinated with FWD big cars in the 1980s and 1990s.
@@JoJoJoker I would not buy a rear drive car, unless it was something like a 1962 Cadillac DeVille.
@@stephendavidbailey2743 many new cars are RWD, all of the great ones unless they all-wheel-drive.
@@JoJoJoker I feel safer in front drive cars, especially in inclement weather.
New sub! Came here for the cars but stayed for the sense of humor and entertainment value.
Hilarious... This episode is gold, Bill... BTW, speaking of the civilization downfall and McDonald's, let's go a little further back to when they stopped cooking fries in beef tallow...
By far the most entertaining guy on U tube😂😂😂
I'm 51 and English and I've liked these since they came out. They have everything that pleased me as a kid, soft top, flashy inside, big wheels. But the adult in me always liked the GT aspec, the handsome proportions and I still love the flashy interior.
I like these cars. Was fortunate enough to drive one, when Moritz Cadillac in Dallas/Fort Worth let me try one, when I went there to pick up parts for my own Cadillac.
Was in your area over Christmas and surprised to see a handfull of these in traffic. Thank you for a nice review.
Decades ago I knew someone with an Allante, and he told me how much a replacement battery cost. I believe I must have gone into shock then, because mercifully, I cannot remember today what he had told me.
I had a pearl white, 1992 Allante with a tan interior and a hardtop. Great car!
your dark sense of humor is amazing lol
This video has inspired me to open the fully automated soft top on my 1998 Mercedes SL600...on which I just spent FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS having the top hydraulics rebuilt. 😥
Watching your video by chance and absolutely loved it,especially the way that you digress and talk about your dogs and the duck story was funny also your voice is something that I could listen to all day long.😊
@47:30 looks like she’s flirting with overheating, Bill- I’d check to see if the electric fans are operable before you let it idle more than a couple minutes. That needle was dangerously up there, especially for one of those engines
Great video, Bill. Lovely, well-preserved example of an Allante that fits in beautifully in Florida with all those palm trees. I had a 91 Allante and had similar feelings about it. Loved the design but the front wheel drive application just didn't feel right. I loved driving it down Lakeshore drive in Grosse Pointe, Michigan on summer days with the top down. Super nice cruiser. I wish GM would have sorted out this car at the beginning, as you said. Keep up the good work! Love your videos and weather commentary.
I got to say Bill you’re opening statements on your videos are really the best part of the video. I love the rest of it to but the first five minutes I love it and I feel your pain I absolutely feel your pain.
I've always love these Caddies
Thanks Bill, much needed, I will try and fit in the small cavern behind the front seats as long as I hear me some Rush. Have a great end of the week everybody!
that cadillac is a gem...
You can still get the "Fried Apple Pie" at the oldest operating McDonald's, which just so happens to be in my home city of Downey, CA!
I love the look of these cars ever since I was a youngster checking out cars that were passing me by.... I would still roll in one of those today if I could ...thank you very much for this upload .... You really do a good job in your presentations acknowledge of vehicles and you bring out a lot of vehicles I like to view
One of the cleanest cars GM ever made. Simple Elegance. Pininfarina did a great job making it sleek and modern yet still very much American in its aesthetic.
It's amazing how many times GM had a good idea but sabotaged it by half-assing the quality, then scrambled to fix it after the negative stigma already existed.
Anyone who could afford one must have had a garage and therefore could leave the top down most of the time. It's not the worst top I've seen.
The exhaust sounded nice from the start. Nice and throaty.
Whenever I see this car I find myself thinking about Robin Williams driving one in the movie Cadillac Man.
Stallone drive in two movies rocky v and Tango&Cash
That’s a beautiful car. My uncle bought one of those when they came out. I think he even went to Italy to see the manufacturing process. I remember my parents thinking he was totally off his rocker.
Hey Bill, Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family ( including Dalton 🙄)
Thanks for the weather & animal report!!! Back in the early nineties I had the hots for the Cadillac 2 seater roadster!!! I almost bought one but several people (including the salesman) discouraged me so I ended up buying a Mark Vll LSC that I kept for 20 years & 300,000 miles!!!
Sweet ride! I bet that had some neat gizmos in it. I hope you smoked an appropriate amount of cigarettes in it over those 20 years. 😶🌫️
FREE DALTON
Your vehicle was a great choice...I still see a few on the road, and they are so classy-beautiful!
@@curbozerboomer1773 Thanks 👍
I remember seeing the Alitalia 747 cargo planes at DTW back in the day. Old school GM needless extravagance.
Roger Smith was GM chairman that era. He was one of the absolute worst in GM's beleagured history.
Big Al's Bike and Auto channel scored a white with red interior with 21000 miles flood car not too long ago, runs too.
The last Cadillac convertible before the Alantia was the 1985 Eldorado, not the 76 model.
I absolutely love this car
It's so freaking beautiful up here in the North. Cool and sunny.
The narrative on this video is brilliant. The demise of the fried apple pie was absolutely a turning point in Western civilization.
The "garbage truck" Seville design was led by the same guy who designed the 1968 Eldorado, 1977 downsizing, 1976 Seville, 1985 downsizing, the 1979 Eldorado and other GM cars from the 1960 through the 1990s. It wasn't a bad design as it was the most popular Seville ever and actually was a trend setter.
i always thought it was a stogy embarrassment as BMW and Mercedes took over
There's an interview with Wayne Kady over the Bustleback Seville with his own personal 84 example. ruclips.net/video/_8QbXnP0-48/видео.html
Thanks for the review on this car, a buddy had one in 98 and we had a good bit of fun with it! Sold it through our tobacco store in 2000. Happy Thanksgiving Bill see ya soon!
Good evening Bill. Cold and windy here in Wales. Definitely not convertible weather.
I once knew an undertaker here who drove an Allante.
Love cars.. love bill
The fried pie! Brilliant! The one thing....the ONE pivotal thing. There's no better analysis than this! 'Luv ya, Bill!
I remember seeing these in showrooms, lots or on the road. They looked so cool and classy in the day. Today's version of that too me would the xlr... one I've seen and wanted for a while... but $$.
The Allante has really grown on my over the past few years. I used to totally ignore them because they weren't a tradition Cadillac boat, but frankly these cars are something else entirely and are a fascinating look into the failings of 80s GM.
Bill,you're so much fun just listening to your crazy stories, that many times I forget about the car you're talking about 😄But always alot of knowledge about any car you're doing review at🙂
Bill is like an uncle I wish I had.
I come for every comment that isn't related to the car. It's so funny. The complaining about the lawn people across the street in this episode made me bend in half laughing. 😆
Maybe not.. he seems a bit pervey.
@@vincentvango5338 😉
OMG, Bill, can't believe you just did this Allante, you did the red one 4 years ago, well I am in the process is saving am 89 that was parked for 11 years, it is on my channel.. You are the best,,
God Bless you, Bill.
Make no mistake bill the parts for this car are not off the shelf GM they are very unique to that car
Good morning sir love the caddy have a wonderful day Bill
The backyard looks like Normandy. Oh Billy boy , you crack me up....++++.😢
You are so right about the year 1992. Also,, that car sold for $59,000
'92!. The year I graduated high school 😢
You always find the neatest stuff
Thought that chipper was comming for you Bill. 😊