How many Caddys have you owned?

[The Ape Man]

Starting in May 1980:

1972 CDV
1971 CDV later swapped to a 500 out of a 75 Fleetwood. Still have this engine after almost 25 years!!!
1972 CDV parts car
1976 CDV Real beater. Used to crash into the dumpster at work everyday.
1977 CDV 9/76 manufacture 000011 VIN production. Came without any options. No tilt. No cruise. Bench seat. Guy I bought it from wanted to be the first on the block to get the body style when it came out. He sold it to me so he could be the first on the block to get a 1985 CDV!!! Boy was he dissapointed. I miss this car.
1977 SDV Bought it from a freind who I sold my '71 to. He wrecked the car and dropped the 500 into the '77.
1978 Coupe De Elegance Parts car
1979 SDV Parts car. Removed front clip for friend's 77 CDV weekend marathon repair.
1978 CDV wrecked by brother-in-law parts car. Still have the 425 engine from this!
1981 CDV wrecked by father-in-law parts car
1981 CDV purchased for re-sale after replacing bad crankshaft from above donor car.
1978 Eldorado trashed by 2 brothers-in-law parts car
1981 CDV all stock 8/6/4 factory PROM disabled.
1983 CDV 500 C.I. conversion
1980 CDV 368
1985 Fleetwood 75 factory limo HT4100 FWD only Cadillac that ever left me stranded. Great gas mileage though.
1980 Seville originally a diesel. Converted to a 307 Olds. Not by me. Gave it to my mom for her last year of work before retiring. She had been car-pooling with dad but the schedules were changed.
1981 CDV 500 C.I. conversion purchased from my father
1985 Fleetwood Coupe junker bought from Mexican folks
1982 Fleetwood Coupe purchased on EBAY to fix up. Later sold on EBAY before fininshing due to finding:
1980 Fleetwood Coupe which is my current ride.
1982 SDV 500 C.I. conversion left to my wife by her deceased father. My son will be driving it next year.
There were others.....

[mccombie_5]

Originally Posted by The Ape Man

Starting in May 1980:

1972 CDV
1971 CDV later swapped to a 500 out of a 75 Fleetwood. Still have this engine after almost 25 years!!!
1972 CDV parts car
1976 CDV Real beater. Used to crash into the dumpster at work everyday.
1977 CDV 9/76 manufacture 000011 VIN production. Came without any options. No tilt. No cruise. Bench seat. Guy I bought it from wanted to be the first on the block to get the body style when it came out. He sold it to me so he could be the first on the block to get a 1985 CDV!!! Boy was he dissapointed. I miss this car.
1977 SDV Bought it from a freind who I sold my '71 to. He wrecked the car and dropped the 500 into the '77.
1978 Coupe De Elegance Parts car
1979 SDV Parts car. Removed front clip for friend's 77 CDV weekend marathon repair.
1978 CDV wrecked by brother-in-law parts car. Still have the 425 engine from this!
1981 CDV wrecked by father-in-law parts car
1981 CDV purchased for re-sale after replacing bad crankshaft from above donor car.
1978 Eldorado trashed by 2 brothers-in-law parts car
1981 CDV all stock 8/6/4 factory PROM disabled.
1983 CDV 500 C.I. conversion
1980 CDV 368
1985 Fleetwood 75 factory limo HT4100 FWD only Cadillac that ever left me stranded. Great gas mileage though.
1980 Seville originally a diesel. Converted to a 307 Olds. Not by me. Gave it to my mom for her last year of work before retiring. She had been car-pooling with dad but the schedules were changed.
1981 CDV 500 C.I. conversion purchased from my father
1985 Fleetwood Coupe junker bought from Mexican folks
1982 Fleetwood Coupe purchased on EBAY to fix up. Later sold on EBAY before fininshing due to finding:
1980 Fleetwood Coupe which is my current ride.
1982 SDV 500 C.I. conversion left to my wife by her deceased father. My son will be driving it next year.
There were others.....

Just a couple then

[ElDawgg 2G]

Hello...
I have owned 4 Cadillacs:

1986 Cimarron
1989 Fleetwood
2000 Eldorado
2000 STS

Untill I grow accustomed to the new stylilng, the only model I would now consider is the 2000-2005 DeVille.

I'll post back when I change my mind.

[mccombie_5]

Originally Posted by ElDawgg 2G

Hello...
I have owned 4 Cadillacs:

1986 Cimarron
1989 Fleetwood
2000 Eldorado
2000 STS

Untill I grow accustomed to the new stylilng, the only model I would now consider is the 2000-2005 DeVille.

I'll post back when I change my mind.

The 00-05 Deville you say?

You have marvellous taste

[Sandy]

I've owned two. One Pink and one Purple. A 1988 Sedan de Ville and a 1993 Sixty Special.

[mccombie_5]

Originally Posted by Sandy

I've owned two. One Pink and one Purple. A 1988 Sedan de Ville and a 1993 Sixty Special.

That Sixty is legendary round here, and the Mary Kay struck a certain chord with me, i like unusual cars, in unusual colours, i had a Pineapple Yellow Vauxhall Astra Sport. It was unusual, as are all of my cadillacs.

Your Sixty is something else, how dedicated to looking after your car can you get? Thats the kind of car i like used

[cadillacman01201]

The first was a 1960 SDV, it was like driving your livingroom down thw road.

At present:

5- 1977 CDVs

1- 1977 Fleetwood Brohmme

1- 1978 Coupe DeElegance

4- 1979 CDVs

1- 1977 SDV Frame sans body- body parted out- drive train intact

1- 1978 SDV Frame sans body- body parted out- drive train parted

That's it.

[gdwriter]

Cruella, my '91 Sedan de Ville is my first Cadillac, but I've always had a soft spot for them, particularly early 60s models with fins, the first FWD Eldorado and the original Seville.

Once I'm back on my feet financially, I may look at a 98-2004 STS. Love the new STS, but it'll be a while before that's in my price range. Or the 2006 DTS. I like the looks much better than the 2000-05 DeVille.

[AlBundy]

New to the Cadillac Gang just one 96ESC.

[LaneWvr]

I've owned one. 81 Coupe Deville 8/6/4

[eldorado99]

My first and only Caddy is the '70 SDV I have now, I have thought about getting an 80's FWB or CDV but I need to put all of my spare cash into my daily driver and the Cad I already have.

[CaddyLifer]

Seven to date

1972 Eldorado Convertible, custom diamond metallic blue exterior with white leather interior & white convertible top. (Hey, I was young!)

1976 Coupe de Ville, Gold metallic exterior with gold velour interior

1977 Coupe de Ville, powder blue exterior with white vinyl half top, blue cloth interior (my Dad's before me, his last Cadillac before his last ride in a Cadillac...)

1980 Sedan de Ville, light grey with grey cloth interior

1981 Sedan de Ville, Grey with Grey cloth interior

1993 Sedan de Villle, metallic dark blue/green exterior w/dark blue/green leather interior.

1989 Brougham 5.0 Litre, dark blue exterior, dark blue leather interior, this is my current daily driver.


I want to add 4 more to my mini-collection, a 1976 Coupe or Sedan, a 1977 Coupe de Ville, a 1963 of yet undetermined model, and a 60's or 70's Fleetwood Limo.

[mbl_rl]

I have owned interesting combo's of cadillac's

1987 cadillac allante

1997 cadillac catera vouge edition sedan (its after market dealer equiped with the cloth top , hood ornaments , gold pacage , luggage rack , and chrome wheels

[caddydaddy]

I have owned 9 in this order:
1979 Sedan Deville
1976 Coupe Deville
1978 Fleetwood Brougham
1975 Sedan Deville
1976 Fleetwood Brougham EFI
1976 Sedan Deville
1994 Deville Concours
2000 STS
1994 Sedan Deville

[sjpi1954]

Evenin' Scrapyard,

I figured you could use a little humor on this question so here goes. I joined this forum about 3 months ago in order to learn as much as possible about Cadillacs. Smart move. What started me in the search for either a new or a pre-owned Cadillac was my lower back. Go figure.

My wife Jaana was taking here RN State Boards in Mobile, AL, and I had about 6-7 hours to kill. Low and behold the Caddy Dealer was across the I-65 and thats where I ended up test driving 3 used CTSs', 2 new CTSs', and then my lower back started acting up. As I was heading in for a coffee break I asked the saleslady why that CTS looked like it was on steroids.

JP, meet the new STS. Nice rod. 1.5 hours later and 57 miles on the clock I got out of that car and my lower back actually felt better. That has NEVER happened to me before....not in a car, a truck, an airplane, a helicopter, or a motorcycle.

So began an intense quest to find out all I could about adaptive seat technology...standard equipment in the '03 and later Cadillac Sevilles, an option pre-'03. 10 beautiful bladders made by the Die Electric Corporation and designed to minimize lower back and leg fatigue and stress automatically. Initial reading 30-60 seconds after the key is turned on and auto adjust every 3-4 minutes later based on your position in the seat. I love it. Gotta have it. IF the seat has the lumbar massage even better.

Over the past three months I have legally bought, on eBay, 3 Cadillac Seville STSs', and not one is in my garage. I have test driven 17 STSs' and SLSs combined. Some with the adaptive seat option and some without. My back always knows. Cadillac Customer Service has been immensely helpful in running build sheet stuff for me off of the RPO codes. So, what has happened on eBay. Simple. NONE of the 3 Cadillacs were as advertised. I'm not talking about a scratch that wasn't advertised.

I'm talking about outright lying, cheating, and gross deception. The good news is that I was reimbursed 100% for my R/T Air Fare to both Atlanta and Richmond. I had amicable settlements with two of the dealerships and the first one got ugly...coyote ugly and I ended up with an eBay strike.

My local Pensacola Cadillac Dealership got in an '03 SLS that was Certified and I rode the Harley down to test drive it, and if everything shook out, I had my sight draft to buy it if the deal was right. The '03 was out doing a ferry trip when I arrived so I killed some time test driving a Deville, my first, and then everything went to hell.

Another retired military aviator pulled up in a 99 STS and we immediately hit it off. Both wearing the leather bomber jackets with the squadron patches and talking flying. Next thing you know I'm test driving his 99 STS and it hurts my lower back and has the Seville Shakes at 65+++ so we go back to the Dealership.

The Used Car Sales Manager comes over, frothing at the mouth like a Rottweiler ready for blood and evicts me from the Dealership for 'sabotoging a potential sale' and 'forbids me from ever coming back'. What he did not know was that the 99 STS Navy Commander was waiting to take his grandson to lunch and he was also just killin' time. Go figure.

So, I mount up on the '99 FXDX and ride off into the sunset with my bank sight draft and no SLS with the Adaptive Seat package. I guess they can afford to evict people here in Pensacola. I wrote Gregg Whibbs a letter but I haven't received a reply. Thought he might want to know the 'Rest of the Story'.

I am currently bidding on another '03 SLS on eBay that is fully covered under warranty and shows pretty well. If I crash and burn on this one I think I'll start taking Prozac and drinking Miller Lite.

How many Cadillacs have I owned? Legally 3...Physically 0.

No guts No glory, Never give up Never surrender,

JP

Stephen JP Ingley
CW4, USA-Ret.