Few noticed the old jalopy parked next to the Bentley GT and the BMW 760 LIs. Its interior was shabby, the body was a bit banged up, and the two-toned dark paint was chipping. But to classic-car fiend Young Buck, the severely worn 1969 Cadillac Eldorado may as well have been a long-neck Maybach.

While at his crew’s “Stunt 101” video shoot in Los Angeles, the 23-year-old Nashville native practically rapped for joy when a set worker pulled up in the brownish-gray, “old school.” Despite the condition being a bit “shitty”, the Southern soldier negotiated a deal with the driver, and just $7,000 later, ownership had switched hands.

Then came the hard part: getting the automobile home to Nashville and getting it up to par. RIDES recently caught up with Young Buck to see how whether his renovations were worthy of an MTV Pimp My Ride appearance.

Explaining why he had to cop this throwback Caddy instantly:

“I like old cars, and this is the first front-wheel-drive Cadillac that was ever made. I just like the way the car looked, and I knew after I put the Young Buck touch to it what it’d really be like. It was something that I had never seen in the streets around my way.”

On just what the Young Buck touch includes:

“I had to remake the car, take every piece of chrome off. I had to take all the insides out. I got (fluorescent) blue lights lining the top so when I flip the switch on at night, the inside glows blue. I got the seats replaced and had ‘Young Buck’ and ‘G-Unit’ (embroidered) on them. I got a DVD; I got a fucking 20-disc changer. Five TVs. My two visors is TVs, in the back two drop down as TVs and my radio is the TV.”

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