Cimarron convertibles arent a concept. they are rare, but exist.
not that I would want one....
John Benham wrote:Cimarron convertibles arent a concept. they are rare, but exist.
so they produced
that dual cockpit convertible for the public?
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cool brochure!!!!
Ive never heard of an actual Cimarron Convertible that is similar to the Cavalier or Sunfire. I don't even think they made a 2-door Cimarron. Is that concept an actual J-body?
Jacob B wrote:cool brochure!!!!
Ive never heard of an actual Cimarron Convertible that is similar to the Cavalier or Sunfire. I don't even think they made a 2-door Cimarron. Is that concept an actual J-body?
If you squint to make out the second page of the brochure, it says "...concept car that's built on a 1985 Cadillac Cimarron platform with a 5" extended wheelbase..". So yeah, it's a modified J.
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s1lver_N1p wrote:John Benham wrote:Cimarron convertibles arent a concept. they are rare, but exist.
so they produced that dual cockpit convertible for the public?
ooops. cant see pics at work, thought it was a regular cim vert.
that thing gets an A+ in the ugly department.
John Benham wrote:
that thing gets an A+ in the ugly department.
you got THAT right!! That thing is WIERD-looking!!!
If you got it, a BIG truck brought it!
I'd rock it...
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ya the engine is also just the 2.8L V6. I don't know what the other guy was saying GM never made a 82-89 Convertible Cimarrron for sale to the public. or did they?
it looks like an effin boat
As fart as I know ALL Cimarron's were 4 door sedans. No convertibles.
there were a few cimarrons convertibles made 12 to be exact. from asc. california editions
Yeah, I believe a dealer out in CA had some agreement and was able to sell Cimmaron convertibles, but since there never was a 2 door Cimmaron...my guess is they were Cavalier ragtops with Caddy front clips & interiors. One just popped up on Craigslist a month ago or so. Not bad looking IMO.
BTW That concept is pretty slick for the 1980's. Looks like a lot of 1980's "Jelly Bean" concept cars.
id drive it if it didnt have rear seats
I've seen this brochure years ago, and have since lost my copy. The "jelly-bean" shape was quite common in the '80s, as the future was looking to make increased use of aero-dynamics in styling for fuel-efficiency reasons. The dual-cowl was to be a hark back to the days (The '30s I'd say...) of when Caddilac was a luxury mark of great grandure... not the then-common "floaty" boxes on wheels with "whores-drawers" interiors & nightmarishly leak-prone or drivability-troubled engines created in desperation (The HT-series V-8s, the carbureted "4/6/8" Displacement-on-demand V-8s) that made them also criplingly underpowered. Concept styling has always been about testing public reaction to new lines of styling, and luring potential customers with notions of what may be. Sadly, it's usually the former that ever makes it to production, and on a model that you'd never recognize it on... even if you had seen it before and loved it.
If there were any "convertible" Cimarron's built, I'd bet they were most likely just sedans with faux-roadster (ridgid & phoney) treatments done to the top, like I've seen many times before, and have always looked cheap & ugly to me. I mean, can you imagime a mid-'80s Firebird with one? I've actually seen one in a dealer. Gross!
As for the other "late" Caddilac concepts, watch "Demolition Man" & note the car that the Santa Angeles "Boss" gets out of. Yep, it's one of them! In fact, many "late" GM concepts & replicas of were used in that movie to represent future model automobiles that would seem "common" in the 2036 setting during the latter 2/3s of the movie. And the cop cars? Based off the GM Ultralite concept (early-'90s), which showcased the notion of a 6-passenger sedan that was capable of getting 100mpg by being powered by a rear-mounted "oil-less" 2-stroke engine that utilized direct gasoline injection. An item (the injection) we now have. Imagine... the power of a 4-cyl engine from only 2-cyls! GM has done the oil-less 2-stroke thing before in diesel form decades ago, maybe it's time to do a gasoline version... since we have the technology.
Go beyond the "bolt-on".
Is it so wrong that I want it?
I think its kinda cool!
snowblindburd wrote:I remember that one, I saw it this summer!
And here's an interesting indicator/button I found inside:
Fiero owners would love to have that as a kind of sick joke.
Short of the weird backseat area, I'd drive that car today.
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ZlineDavid wrote:snowblindburd wrote:I remember that one, I saw it this summer!
And here's an interesting indicator/button I found inside:
Fiero owners would love to have that as a kind of sick joke.
Short of the weird backseat area, I'd drive that car today.
I thought you pushed that button. when you were through with it and wanted the insurance company to total it...
Fugly winner.
I never heard of this monstrosity...and now wish I hadn't. I thought perhaps this thread was about the one-off widebody J Sunfire that GM made but never went into production.
It recently sold at Barrett-Jackson for over $110,000. A j-body. It was a sharp-looking car too.
On another note: there was a 2003 Sunfire GT on EBay last year selling for $90,000 (opening bid). It was the 'Compact Car' winner at SEMA for 2007, I believe. First and only time a j-body ever won at SEMA.
Thats a sweet looking ride man! I'd ride that today the way it is...
