Older Cadillacs You Have Owned

[509Rider]

83 coupe deville, biggest turd I have ever owned
90 fleetwood 67,000 orig miles motor was junk always had probs 307
91 fleetwood 75,000 orig miles delagence awsome car.
93 fleetwood flawless car bought fom an old man, owned it for over 5 years, and is now my show car.
95 fleetwood my new daily love it.
98 sls nice but sucked gas and went down in value terribly.

[David W. Bailey]

Wow, this is better than I dared hoped for. There are so many impressive collections on this thread. Don't you wish you could have some of these cars back? A 1958 CDV for $285.00..........

I think that it is cool that there is a Swedish Cadillac fanatic!

[Bro-Ham]

Hi,

Here's the list:

1978 Fleetwood Limousine - bought in 2/00 with 30k miles, sold in 3/01 with 33k miles, Sterling blue with dark blue top and dark blue cloth interior.

1978 Sedan deVille d'Elegance - bought 10/00 with 109k miles, sold 1/04 with 121k miles, dark brown with matching top and buckskin cloth interior.

1976 Fleetwood Brougham - bought 2/02 with 9k miles, sold 12/02 with 12k miles, Florentine Gold Firemist with white top and antique light ivory gold leather interior.

1990 Brougham d'Elegance - bough 5/03 with 67k miles, sold 7/03 with 68k miles, gray on gray on gray.

1981 Fleetwood Brougham Coupe - bought 1/04 with 229k miles, sold 8/06 with 238k miles, gold on gold on gold.

1979 Sedan deVille d'Elegance - bought 10/05 with 61k miles, still own and it has about 75k miles, colonial yellow with burnished gold cloth interior.

Fun, fun, fun, fun FUN! Let's keep it up!

Dave

[codewize]

78 Coupe DeVille
89 STS
90 Fleetwood
93 Brougham
01 DTS

[davidrap]

How cool to see what people have had!

1977 Sedan Deville -Red/White My First Car. Was Grandfathers'. I still have it
1994 Eldorado ETC Black/Black Mint (Sold)
1996 Eldorado ETC Calypso Green/Tan (Sold)
1976 Coupe Deville Silver/Black (Sold)
1975 Eldorado Convertble Firemist Red/White (Sold)
1969 Deville Convertible White White (Boss Hogg) Sold & Missed
1964 Deville Convertible Red/Black (Restored & Traded for boat)
2000 Deville DTS Black/Tan (Sold)
1999 Deville Concours White Diamond/Tan (Sold)
1996 Fleetwood Brougham SS Cashmere/Tan (Still Have)

If I had more room I'd have kept em all...well most of em. All were very reliable. Much more so that the awful Mercedes Benzes I've stupidly purchased over the years. My 77 Deville starts every time and runs great! The 64 Deville was pretty rough...beat up by a farmer in Iowa.

Anyone want to trade an old caddy for a highly maintained 1987 Mercedes 560SEL? The Benz just sits and I'd rather look at an old caddy!

Cheers,

David

[JoeT1224]

Been riding in Cadillacs since birth, most of these belonged to my father:

1978 Coupe deVille: silver exterior with elk grain vinyl top and gray leather interior 7.0L: sold with 160k miles

1989 Coupe deVille: silver with black cloth roof and black leather interior 4.5L: sold with 144k miles

1998 DeVille: burgundy with beige leather interior 4.6L: sold with 84k miles

1997 Eldorado: white diamond with beige leather interior 4.6L: totaled by careless woman on a cell phone

2000 ESC: crimson pearl metallic with beige leather interior, fully loaded minus a sunroof: 54k miles

Joe

[Old Fleetwood]

Sorry, guys, I guess I'm a Cadillac virgin!
My 1995 Fleetwood Brougham is my first Cadillac.
Some of you may remember me as a Moparnut.
My father had Lincolns or Oldsmobiles, and I loved my 1960 Mercedes 220Sb. But I must admit I am awed by this Cadillac.
Maybe it's the LT-1. Or maybe it's Shane Cobb's Stage II 4L60E. Who knows? But what a totally under-rated automobile.
I guess the auto press just loves to bash American made or something but in the short time I've had this vehicle, it's made more than one ricer and just as many sausage haulers look silly both at a traffic light grand prix and in the twisties.
Maybe I've chosen my "victims" well so far, but it's hilarious to see a 535i skid into a ditch in my rear view mirror as he tries to follow me on a winding road. And I'm old enuf to be that kid's grand dad.
(BTW alias Rick186)

[I~LUV~Caddys8792]

What, did you change your screenname Rick?

[bigbluebrougham]

1969 SDV...All beat to heck by someone, rusty, terrible shape. Wrecked it in a derby (please don't shun me!!!) Still have the 472 and turbo 400 waiting to go into something....

1995 FWB. Daily driver and my new love!

Short list with more to come!!

BBB

[83devilleUSMC]

1983 CDV. 56,000 miles!

[dkozloski]

1939 LaSalle ambulance. Flathead V8, three on the tree, leather upholstery, rubber floormats. Original birch and maple cabinets. Eventually parted it out. Transmission went to a drag racer. Frame made into an equipment trailer.

'04 CTS Red Line.

[The Ape Man]

Originally Posted by dkozloski

1939 LaSalle ambulance. Flathead V8, three on the tree, leather upholstery, rubber floormats. Original birch and maple cabinets. Eventually parted it out. Transmission went to a drag racer. Frame made into an equipment trailer.

'04 CTS Red Line.

Got any pictures? I guess they could be scanned. How did the leather age back before all the government mandated safety chemicals?

[Old Fleetwood]

OMG - I forgot! I was part owner of a 1940 LaSalle Convertible which the "legal" owner and I used to race around a vacant soybean field northeast of Indianapolis years ago.
Geeez, what that car would be worth today!
Oh, well, I was 15 and stupid as the proverbial boxorox.
Now you know where my paper route money went for that year.
But at least we sold the drive line (flathead and manual trans) to a guy who put it in his beat-to-death '42 Cadillac. The rest we (sob, sniffle) burned and sold to a scrap dealer.
(Yes, my alias is because I couldn't change my name as I dropped my previous ISP so I simply adopted a new name when I went with sbcYahoo! as my new provider)

[dkozloski]

Originally Posted by The Ape Man

Got any pictures? I guess they could be scanned. How did the leather age back before all the government mandated safety chemicals?

No pics. I owned the thing in 1961 and the upholstery looked new, not a blemish. The rubber floor mat was original and wasn't worn even under the gas pedal. There was a lot of black enamel and a little chrome on the engine. The thing had 150,000 miles plus. The guy that owned it before me gave it to me when I inquired about it. The guys wife about did handsprings. I jumped it and it started right up. The front end was so worn out that it was just about undrivable. There were 14 leaves in the rear springs and it weighed 6500 lbs on the scales. I put some kingpins in it and that helped a little on the steering. I wound up giving it away to a guy that wanted the transmission.

[hankk17]

let's see.... going backwards:

1978 Eldorado Bairritz Classic (x2 - one is a parts car) - my current project

1986 Fleetwood Brougham - got rid of to make room for the 78

1999 Eldorado - my current main car - got 105k on it

1985 Sedan De Ville - fixed it and sold it

1983 Coupe DeVille - HT4100 died mid-way home on me on this one

1983 Eldorado - got it for $600 because it needed a water pump. swapped out the pump in 4 hours and had the car a total of a month before my wife bent the frame. such a shame. she hit a bad pothole, blew two tires, did a 720 and bounced off a very high curb and wound up on someone's lawn. she was OK - the car didn't make it.

1983 Sedan DeVille - got it for $200 - had a rear engine seal leak that left 1/3 of a quart of oil if I stopped at a redlight. it went to the boneyard pretty fast lol

1982 Sedan DeVille - sold it

1978 Eldorado - bought for $200 in 1995. needed a CV joint. had to give it up because the frame rotted through. I used to use this car to tow my buddies around when their junkers bit the dust. I remember one time a buddy had an old postal service jeep that he managed to shoot a hole through the side of his dinky engine while on rt2 here in MA. I hooked up my chains around his bumper and started towing. as we were going along I looked in the rear view mirror and noticed smoke billowing out from all four of his tires - his brakes locked up while I was towing him and we were grinding his rotors and drums to hell. we had no choice but to continue so I towed him for another 10 miles like that without my eldo skipping a beat. man I miss that car... which is why I have another one now! =)

1977 Coupe DeVille - flintstones car. the floorboards had rusted completely through. This is also the car I nearly died in. it was a super-cold morning back in jan of 90. I warmed the car up for 10 minutes then took off for work. some of the soundproofing material in the back seat was actually poking through the rotted floor and was touching the muffler. the car was running very rich and at times the muffler glowed red hot. well put the two together and you get fire. I smelled what I thought was burning pancakes and looked around and didn't see anything. I kept heading to work but happened to glance in my rear view mirror and noticed a huge black spot spreading on the riser that the rear seat was on and just at that moment the rug burst into flame.. I cut over three lanes and pulled into the breakdown lane and jumped out to look underneath and saw the problem.. whipped open the passenger door and stamped out the flames and ripped out the back seat and then started throwing all the burning soundproofing material on the road. as I was doing this a cop pulls up behind me as I'm in the back seat of the car.. comes up and gives me the "what seems to be the problem son?" look and I scream "MY CAR'S ON FIRE!!!!" at him. He jumps in his cruiser and escorts me to the nearest gas station and commandeers the attendant and tells him "son, you better get this guy a bucket of water or you're gonna have a big problem on your hands". the attendant grabs a hose and we douse the floor, finally putting out the fire. That day I replaced all the floors and bought a new carb. heh.. good times

1976 Coupe DeVille - not technically MY car but it's the car that started my love affair with the Caddy. my best friend at the time got it from his parents and we used to cruise around everywhere in that car. white with a red leather interior. 500cc engine. pure comfort. the chicks LOVED us in that car. I'm still looking for another one although they're hard to find around here.