RWD 19xx-1984 DeVille and Fleetwood, 1985-1996 Fleetwood and Brougham ForumForum for discussions regarding the rear wheel drive Pre80s-1984 DeVille and Fleetwood, 1985-1996 Fleetwood/Brougham.
Well After a month of hard thinking I decided to keep all 3 Broughams. My friend is gonna let me keep the 80 in his garage until I get a house with a bigger driveway.
Thank heavens! And you'll thank yourself many years from now. That '78 is just too nice to let it go below what it's REALLY worth. I say keep it another twenty years and fully restore it. Then if you still don't have enough room, send it off to the Barret Jackson and get a pretty penny. But I bet you'll have grown to love it so much that you wont.
Ya can't just get rid of a fine Caddy that's practically a piece of you over matters as trivial as space. Our love is deeper than that. I mean if you had one too many children, would you say "OK I love all of you dearly but I'm gonna have to boot one of you out on the street while I love the rest. Who's it gonna be?" lol...
Yes, exactly. I'm glad you came to your senses in time, haha. All of your Caddies are so damn beautiful, they make a fine tri-generation display. If I were you I'd get two other people to drive and have a motorcade into just about every local cruise-in & carshow I could find. You should post some new pictures of the Coupe, we don't have any really good ones that I've found.
You guys crack me up. I knew I would've felt bad dumping the 78 and I guess I don't mind imposing on a friend for a little while. Ben...I'll get some pictures up as soon as the 80 comes out of the shop. I told my body guy to take his time, so it's just been sitting. I think I'm throwing the 78's wheels and 2" whitewall tires on the 80 and putting the correct hex center wire wheels on the 80 with the correct 1.3" whitewall.
Body man? So she's getting a facelift, huh. I didn't know anything needed to be done. Not sure about the wide whitewalls going on the '80, I like the contrast of the blue and all that white on the '78, and I always just pictured the '80 getting correct whitewalls. Guess I'll just have to wait and see it. Are you going to keep the standard whitewalls on the '91 or get some wider ones?
Yeah, but sometime in the late eighties they started putting "Royal Seal" tires on the Broughams, and switched to a narrower whitewall on the other cars. The royal Seals has a 1" whitewwall, and a narrow gold stripe closer to the rim. So, if you were to have put new tires on your Brougham, it would be a judgment call if you went with 0.75 or 1.3" They stopped making Royal Seals in the mid '90s. Here's a picture of them. Some people mistake them for Vogues, even though they're reversed. Sorry I couldn't get a better picture, it's hard to see the gold stripe. I'll look around for a better one. But you can see how the whitewall is slightly farther out.
EDIT: Okay, in this shot you can see the gold stripe better.
