00:00I'm here in rural Massachusetts looking at a very unique vehicle. I know some of you like
00:06You're getting older in age. You want something a little bit older something distinctive, but you need four seats for the family
00:12You need a little bit of luxury, but you like a lot of power to go with it
00:16So today we're going to be showing you what it's like to drive
00:20a land yacht
00:22So
00:27Yes behind me your eyes do not deceive you this is a
00:311966
00:32Cadillac Deville this thing is gigantic. It's 18 feet
00:37Eight inches and when it comes to luxury back in the day
00:41The cadillac was the name to go by and it's one of those things if i'm going to show you exactly what it's like
00:46To drive one. I think I should find the king
00:50What's even better is that this is a rolling piece of artwork
00:54I mean every detail to it was done by the current owner to make it look as distinct
01:00And cool as it does right now, but does it drive that way?
01:04Well, that's what we're going to discover in a moment. And then after that we're going to look at
01:08Obviously what it's like to drive we're going to look at the upkeep maintenance cost to it
01:15Looking to see if this is really something that can be daily driven, obviously
01:18And then some of the things that are evident with this vehicle that you may not find in every kind of vehicle out there
01:25So we're going to take a look at everything. We're going to go over the details to you
01:29Get ready to get in the driver's seat. This is going to be awesome
01:32So
01:43Hey everybody, I am in a 1966
01:46Cadillac Deville, it's got a 429 engine in it that in if you're wondering that's big
01:54This vehicle is intimidating to say the least it's big it's large
02:00I really can't wait to drive this because I we've already taken the ride down to see what it's like
02:05Um, but it's not an air ride. It's on a regular suspension. It really feels good for what it is. So
02:12So i've slammed this puppy into drive one
02:16Big gigantic pedals
02:19Uh, the one thing that I really love about this car already is that you can see everything
02:25Everywhere there is you want to look back one way you want to look back left wherever you want to look
02:30I can see perfectly
02:37Hope you can hear it on the video
02:38But we're going to try to get a grasp of it too is the sound of the exhaust the exhaust on this thing is perfect
02:44It was made to be this way
02:46Unlike most cars that have a very big drone to them where it's hard to drive. It's hard to hear
02:52Uh, I could literally take this car on a long distance ride with no problem whatsoever
02:59Nice big steering wheel
03:02It's nice
03:14This right here doesn't have an air ride system
03:16It has a static ride system
03:17And that's one thing that I felt about all these other cars is when I drove it
03:21I felt like I had to spend a ton of time kind of getting myself acclimated to the car
03:26with this thing
03:27I got right in I pulled the drive. I made sure my mirrors are right and then I was on the road driving
03:32and literally having fun. This is a super fun ride and it's
03:38Whether you're relaxed or you like that muscle power in it. It feels like it has all of it all dialed into one package
03:46Uh, I cannot say enough nice things about this car
03:50uh to really
03:51Convey the feeling of the exhaust sound the feeling of the big body
03:57one thing I was really kind of worried about was i'm going to take turns and
04:01Uh not be able to do the turns because it's a much bigger vehicle. I don't really feel any of that
04:06I feel like I fit in the road
04:08Probably would be a problem if I was trying to park it which I may defer to the owner to do that
04:14but in the same respect
04:15Uh, this was it's just a dream to kind of just float along on the road
04:21Feeling like you're on a cloud and I mean that's something I only felt with air riding
04:26Now it's just with this big vehicle you feel it in something like this
04:30So
04:42Put the power down
04:45One of the things that luxury cars do as a trick is they add a lot of torque to their engines and with this big
04:50429
04:52It makes this car even though it's big and heavy feel like a really light car really fun to drive
05:00So
05:04Okay, so what's it like to drive
05:06Before I even start that I have to make a confession. This is the kind of vehicle that I would like to buy myself
05:12And so I came into this I had the same kind of fears that everybody else has you go into it and you say
05:18Is it going to do what I wanted to do? Is it going to be that burly car?
05:22What's it going to be like? Um, and the thing was is it really really impressed me?
05:27Uh, one thing that I was worried about was the size of it
05:30Uh, I didn't have to take turns wide or do anything of that really just drive the car like normal
05:37it does
05:38Feel like a boat so it does kind of float when it drives
05:42Which is something a lot of people may not be accustomed to but when it came to power
05:47It really made it where it counted and that's the other thing in luxury cars. It's very important to have torque in it
05:53So this car had power where it counted it had a lot of get up and go
05:57And that was the best part about it was is that it didn't feel like a big heavy car. It felt like a luxury car
06:04So it had power where it counts and that's why I think it made it very distinctly fun to drive
06:09It's the kind of car that you can go fast in if you need to
06:12And the kind of car that you if you want to go slow you can go slow and it looks good
06:18No matter how fast or slow you drive it
06:21Okay, so what is it going to cost to own this gigantic car
06:26Well, the owner himself paid four thousand dollars for the vehicle. Yep. That's right four thousand dollars and
06:31the thing was is we really discussed that because I kind of was like i've seen a lot of old cars and like
06:37these things get expensive and
06:39We really couldn't get much more than probably four to ten thousand
06:42It really depends on the vehicle the person that's the seller obviously do any kind of research that you had
06:49To do the work to it
06:51He actually put in around a thousand dollars for it now
06:54I before I even distinctly
06:57Put that number out there for you
06:59I want you to kind of ignore it if you're the kind of person that does your own work
07:04And can work on this yourself like he does
07:06Yeah, you probably won't spend as much money as you think if you're not the kind of person that would do your own work
07:13the paint job on this alone
07:15could
07:16throw a lot of money at you the
07:19Restoration work is the biggest part of this vehicle because once you get it, they always have problems
07:25So once you get these it's going to be new this new that
07:29Going through the appalle it's got to look good on the inside
07:31It's a luxury car. So a lot of things that you're not going to worry about in other cars. You're going to be worried about here
07:38Interior is going to be big
07:40wheels tires
07:42Engine everything there's nothing small about this car
07:46And that's not even taking into account air ride
07:48I mean the air ride system done right alone could run you, you know up to seven thousand dollars for this whole setup. So
07:55That's the thing is is if you're looking at a vehicle like this
07:58You not only want to take into account the cost of the vehicle because that might actually be the easy part
08:03What you want to look at is the amount of work that's going to take to get you up to this level
08:09and to see if you're ready for you may not be ready for this kind of paint job and
08:13Don't take it personal if you are because there's a lot of people I myself i'm not ready
08:18To put the money into this paint job right here
08:21Paying somebody else to do it. It would be
08:23Really really expensive
08:26So what about the upkeep? Well, that was the thing that got me about the upkeep too is
08:30Really? It's got a regular engine in it. It's got regular wheels and tires
08:35This one actually had springs so you didn't even have upkeep with air ride
08:38Really this is the kind of car that you could do all changes in your backyard and probably change the tires yourself, too
08:44In fact, that probably suggests
08:46Getting under the hood yourself and figuring out and learning some of the stuff out there. I mean these cars
08:52Are older and they're easier to work on a lot of people learn to turn wrenches on vehicles like this
08:57So and if you have to bring it to somebody obviously you want to bring to somebody who is reputable and somebody you like
09:04But the upkeep on these things is going to be a breeze the really big thing is is that this car is power everything
09:10It's pretty much for the reasons why some of the jobs were easier
09:15So unlike race cars where you're kind of not worrying about ac and you're not worrying about power steering and all that kind of thing
09:22This one you're going to have to worry about that
09:24So there's going to be a couple of little upkeep items that are bigger than the whole but in the long run
09:30It's going to be a dream so can you daily drive this car and unfortunately i'm going to really say the word no
09:38Uh, yeah, you probably could but I definitely wouldn't run it the way we're seeing it now
09:44This car worries about speed bumps. It worries about road conditions. There's some things that it's it's gonna
09:50It's going to take into account as a weekend car or a show car
09:55Perfect car if you put air ride in it, you probably will get over those things
09:58But in the same respect there's a lot of things that are going to be wear and tear with this item
10:03That I can see a lot of people saying no, I don't want to take this out daily and drive it around
10:07I mean if you did a paint job like this
10:10you're obviously going to be worrying about paint and I know I would so I know that part's kind of a bummer but
10:15You know, you know what you're getting into when you get a car like this
10:18Uh, and if you are the kind of person that can find a way to daily driver
10:22You know more power to you
10:23I hope you can find parking spots and I would probably stay away from valets, but regardless it's going to be a lot of fun
10:29Okay, that's it guys. Thanks for tuning in. Uh this
10:33I have to say was an enjoyable experience. I was
10:36Really impressed by this vehicle and i'm pretty sure I would be impressed by a lot of cars like this
10:42these big body vehicles just have a certain stance to them that
10:46It just can't be matched by much anything out there big
10:50Obtrusive the kind of vehicle that you drive down the road and people say look get out of the way because i'm coming
10:57Uh, so I hope you enjoyed it
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11:04And I really do want to thank this
11:07awesome
11:08land yacht for showing us
11:10What it's like to drive?
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