Murray Pfaff, owner of Pfaff Designs (www.pfaffdesigns.com), is best known as the creator of many of the coolest project vehicle designs (renderings) for other companies and individuals (like Sammy Hagar) to ever grace the pages of major magazines. However, the tables were turned when Pfaff decided to take his classic 1956 Cadillac Sedan DeVille, which he’s owned for 15 years, from rendering to reality, and make it available to his client companies for shows and special events.

So far, “FireMaker” (named because of its two-stage fuel injection system that shoots flames 20 feet rearward) has been showcased at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the 2008 DUB Show Tour in Detroit, the GM Heritage Parade during the Woodward Dream Cruise in Royal Oak, Michigan and various promotions and displays by MTX, Goodyear, Optima, Ididit and Street Legal Customs. It was also filmed by General Motors for an online campaign on YouTube, featuring high-profile Cadillacs, when has been viewed more than 13,000 times.

This one-of-a-kind custom Cadillac, with its blend of old school style and 21st Century technology, is a collaboration of shops and aftermarket companies to showcase their work…and definitely worthy of being featured in Factory Tuned.

TECH SPECS

Audio/Video: Alpine iDA-X001 source unit (hidden in dash insert behind a drop-down door); two 1,000-Watt MTX Thunder TA5601 mono-block amps; two 550-Watt MTX Thunder TA5302 two-channel amps; two MTX 12-inch Thunder 9500 subwoofers; four MTX Thunder Axe component speaker sets (in the front doors and the rear package tray); two StreetWires Power Station 1-farad capacitors; StreetWires Ultra Flow power cables, ground terminals, distribution blocks and accessories; and an Optima Yellow Top battery installed by Street Legal Customs (Royal Oak, Michigan).

Body/Paint: Shaved handles, emblems, trim and antenna; Cadillac “Goddess” relocated and recessed into hood line; 300 louvers; custom stainless windshield trim; black painted grille; Hella driving lights in lower bumper openings; filled side skirts with custom body lines; motorcycle headlights with chrome bullets; extended side intakes;’48 Ford taillights with custom taillight bullets molded into bumper ends; twin frenched electric rear antennas; wrap around rear window reduced to limo size; Carson-style top covered in Mercedes-Benz Haartz cloth; and a recessed firewall. Bodywork by Murray Pfaff and Matt Shamey (Watertown, New York). Body paint is Glasurit Dark Silver Poly with Ultra-Violet Purple and Ice Pearl flames and scallops and Galaxy Green pin striping. Pfaff designed and laid out the graphics, Charlie Vickerie (Waterford, Michigan) painted it and Jeff Shea (Warren, Michigan) hand striped it.