Cadillac Allante. I have been going for years and have never seen another one of these turn up. Doesn't do anything for me personally and I mean it's not like a Ferrari turned up or something but overall pretty rare with low total volume numbers. Just thought it was weird. You would think someone would have tried to save it before it got to this point considering it had the body built in Italy by Pininfarina and then shipped to Detroit by a 747 or some such craziness. Point being a lot of effort went in to building it. Gotta love GM. It had been out for a few days and already was heavily picked over..............or maybe it arrived that way, don't know. Motor was mostly still there. Body and interior mostly gone. Sorry, no pics.
i just saw one of them in a junkyard yesterday. took me a second to figure out what it was.. you aren't by chance in central MN?
I don't understand those cars at all. Looks like a basic Caddy to me. Seems like they could have at least gotten a decent looking car out of all the effort that went into that car. It looks like Pininfarina tried their best to build a body that looks like a Caddy.
When I had the Miata on Craigslist, I had a local say he would trade me his "BEAUTIFUL PERFECT CONDITION Allante" But I would have to give him $1000 cash on top because the Allante was a better car. I think I just replied, "Haha, that's funny."
Was it the earlier Allante with the 4.9 V8 with the funky intake or the later one with the Northstar? Some of the Fiero folks like the earlier engine for swappability.
There's a complete tagged and running one a few miles from my place. No interest from me other than its comparative rareness. I remember when it first came out that the 4T60 transaxle was a bit weak so GM designed the engine management to shut the engine off momentarily on full throttle upshifts.
