Cadillac Johnny Cash "One Piece at Time": a coupe created based on the song (5 photos + 1 video)

Imagine a car so absurd, so ridiculous as long as your imagination is enough. Something like Fiat comes to mind Multipla, Nissan Juke, Pontiac Aztek along with everything American auto industry of the nineties, but they all fade against the background of this ... masterpiece.





This Cadillac DeVille is literally built from separate, most often random details. The only thing that unites this whole set of iron is that it was all from different Cadillacs, and the machine itself appeared thanks to the song.

In 1976, American entertainer Johnny Cash, a country music singer, recorded a lyric song about a car factory worker who dreamed of his Cadillac. Detroit in the 70s wasn't where you want it to be. it turns out that the automotive capital of the United States did not leave the criminal news chronicles, and the oil crisis of the early seventies forced the Americans change from full-size sedans to economical Japanese hatchbacks.

All this did not prevent the locksmith from Cash's song from realizing his dream of Cadillac, step by step, detail by detail. All details, according to songs, the worker pulled from the factory, so they didn't cost him a cent.



"You'll recognize this car when I'm in your city, I'll be stylish, driving everyone crazy, Nothing like this will ever come close."

Somehow the words from the song describe the car, but the description is good, but a live illustrative example is much better. Song in the meantime was gaining popularity, and Cash decided on madness - he ordered the construction "Frankensteiner", attracting attention from afar with one of his view.





Cash finds a workshop somewhere in Nashville that took to embody his crazy idea in metal. Everything turned out in the best way, there was definitely no second such machine in the world.

Cash was racing his Cadillac during the promo tour for his song, but A year later, something bad happened. In short - the car in the total.



The photo is already a replica created by one of the singer's fans, a collector Bill Patch. According to numerous photos from magazines, newspapers and concert Patch recreates a unique car and gives it to Cash. Such is story. The replica has survived to this day and is in the singer's house-museum.