1993 Cadillac Allante from North America - Comments

We won a 1987 Allante by entering a sweepstakes from Kodak by just filling in 5 (free) ballots!! It was a DREAM car and I hated to sell it. But, we had to because our two kids and us could not fit into it. Also, in Calgary, these Canadian winters last 9 months - not conducive to owning a gorgeous convertible! I was sad to part with it, but on the other hand, we invested the money and quadrupled it. So, maybe, we will get a 1993 model one of these days. It simply made heads turn - you would have thought the onlookers had swivel heads!!! The car is long gone but my heart will always be pining for one of these beauties.

I've owned my 93 Allante now for almost one year.. The car drives great.. parts are always hard to locate, but contacting the local Allante clubs was the ticket.. two issues for me are the conv. top.. I can't believe its not a one button automatic top, although it stays down most of the time... The other is just personal.. A body built in Italy should not resemble a 93 Honda...

Hello all, the bodies were made in Italy by Pininfarina.

The body was designed and built on a frame and trucked to the airport where GM had a 747 jet, 56 Allantes were flown back to the USA and the body was mated to the chassis at the Hantramck, Michigan assembly plant.

One other note, only 21,430 Allantes were built, and 1993 was the Allante's last year, enjoy.

I have a 93 Red Allante with 25.000 miles. I live in Florida so it stays in great shape to drive on Sunday and to the Florida Allante club meet.

I am now looking for a low cost high mileage 93 Allante to convert to an all electric and save the drive train parts and some other unused parts for my other 93. I think the any year high mileage Allante would make great electric sports cars. Why let them go to waste or through them away when they wear out when you can have one of the best all electric roadsters in the world.?? Check out the TESLA at $120,000) The cost of conversion will be about double the cost of a new engine and trans. etc at about $15K plus the car.

Let me know what you think??

I purchased a new 89 Allante and drove it for business in the hot Florida sun on construction sites, orange groves, sugar farms and rice paddies for two years.

I then took advantage of the buyer protection plan and traded it in on a new Eldorado, plus pulled out cash for personal reasons. This was one of the bad things you do in life. I always wanted to "Kick" myself for that.

That car was great, never any problem at all. I will always remember I pu/d that car in Smithtown, LI, NY, and drove it with my son where we got pulled over doing 35mph on US1 in N. Palm Beach FL because of the small temp.lic.sticker on the window, 1,232 miles 17.5hrs later.

Hi.

I picked up a Pearl White '91 Allante on June 6,'09. It is top shelf. The brake system had been recently upgraded with the major components,... master cyl. accumulator, calipers all having been replaced. It has 60K miles on it. Only thing I can think that it needs is a hard top. Everything works and is in great condition /order. It is a great car. I'm glad I got it. It is a head turner as others have attested here. It is timeless. What a ride.

Bill.

How, and who does the electric engine conversion?

I'm looking to do the same. Might as well jump on the new technology before gas turns to 5 plus a gallon.

Thanks.

Albert,

marinas2111 at yahoo.com.

"The engine (Northstar) is the best engine ever made."

Powerful, but not as durable as other V8 engines.