[I~LUV~Caddys8792]

Well, remember how badly I wanted one of those Lincoln Mark IV's??

Well I found a '72 in good condition for $3500 in my area, it's a black exterior, cranberry interior, 76k miles, fairly great shape overall.

Here's a pic:

I went and looked at it last night, offered the guy $3500 and he bit, I'll be taking delivery this weekend at some point...








Hahahaha just kidding! But I did get a "new car" of sorts last night...

Remember how I got into an accident back in December of '05? I swerved to miss a car in a snowstorm, lost control in the snow and hit a guardrail on my right front corner. Well I found a junkyard that has a '92 deVille identical to mine (same exact color inside and out), so I bought all the parts I needed off of that car about two weeks ago and finally had them installed last night by my uncle, who is a mechanical genius! This man can do everything...electrical, mechanical, bodywork, painting, etc etc. He worked at a Chevy dealer as a mechanic (Journeyman) for 11 years...1984-95, so that's where a lot of his experience comes from.

Anyways, here's the pictures!

Ever seen a '92 deVille with no fenders, hood or bumper? Well now you have.

Gettin' it back together...

Completed!!

These two pictures were taken 20 minutes ago.

This is the same angle, but two weeks ago.

More pics to come, I'm in a hurry right now, gotta go to work soon, but man am I happy that I *finally* did this, now it feels like a complete car again, not one that's seen better days.

 

[caddydaddy]

Nice Caddy!

 

[CadillacGurl]

Yey its all pretty again!

 

[xxpinballxx]

I remember that....good for you. What a lucky find having it the same color and everything. Hope you took the opportunity to get a few extra parts just incase you need something in the future. Might have been a good idea to get all the body panels or heck even buy the whole car. Never know what the future will hold.

 

[FL01SS]

Looking good! Must feel good to have it back to normal again!?!

 

[nickc50310]

Glad you got her lookin pretty for the meet!!

 

[DBA-One]

Like it never happened!

 

[ted tcb]

Good work!

As I recall, all thats left is to fix the rust spot on the right edge of the hood?

 

[gdwriter]

As the old Wendy's commercial goes, "Very nice!"

Glad to see Angie will be looking spiffy for the meet.

 

[Benzilla]

Damn you! I almost shit myself thinking you bought a Lincoln. lol.

She looks great, that's a regal looking car. But is it just me, or doesn't the pin-stripe line up? That doesn't matter, at least it's in one piece.

Oh, by the way, the Phaeton is going in for paint in a couple weeks. And you got your way, I'm putting on an original grille I got on eBay.


P.S., now that I think about it, the palm trees kinda gave it away...

 

[behind-bars]

Looks good.

Mine could use the exact same treatment, though its not as bad as yours was to begin with. I could go for a new hood and passenger side fender if I could find one in the same color, Ironically I almost T-boned a car just like mine, color and all, in a parking lot today and would have damaged the driver side and left their passenger side intact. Would have been ironic if I had hit them and then stole all their undamaged parts to fix mine back up.

 

[77CDV]

Way to go, Chad!! She looks just as regal as she ever did. Now aren't you glad you didn't rush to dump her like you planned?

Craig

 

[Jonas McFeely]

I didnt believe it for a second.

 

[eldorado99]

Damn you! I almost shit myself thinking you bought a Lincoln. lol.

She looks great, that's a regal looking car. But is it just me, or doesn't the pin-stripe line up? That doesn't matter, at least it's in one piece.

Oh, by the way, the Phaeton is going in for paint in a couple weeks. And you got your way, I'm putting on an original grille I got on eBay.


P.S., now that I think about it, the palm trees kinda gave it away...

You ended up deciding on paint after all eh? The polish just didn't cut it? (no pun intended) I know you said the polish was good enough before.

 

[Benzilla]

Ehh, it looks ok now, but it isn't good enough. The top surfaces are still so dull. I'm paying for a top notch job, better than new. All buffed out and everything. It should look like wet glass, I was very clear about that. When she's done she'll outshine anything.

By the way, I can't remember, how's yours coming?

 

[90Brougham350]

Chad, this is great news! And excellent timing as well, what with the meet in a week and all. I'm glad you decided to fix it up instead of buying the Regal; with these new body panels you should be good to go for a while now. I'll be looking forward to seeing the ol' girl soon!

 

[dita0401]

Looks pretty good. Everything lined up well and not a single cable tie holding it together.:highfive:

 

[I~LUV~Caddys8792]

Thanks everyone for the compliments!

Pinball, I wish I could have bought that other car like mine, it had no body damage and also had a beige interior (but it was leather). Heck, that might have come in handy if I wanted to switch over at some point, like I did, but I simply don't have the space or money to do that.

Ted: yeah, I could get around to fixing that rust spot, but who knows how big that actually is under the paint. Maybe if I try sanding it off I'd be opening up a can of worms?

Ben, the pin stripe does in fact not line up correctly. It's about an 1/8th an inch off..oh well. I could always get that redone at work..there's a lady we call in that only does pinstripes. She charges a lot but she's very good at it. Perhaps in the near future. Oh, that reminds me, I've gotta file a claim on my windshield. When my uncle and I were installing the new one, I slipped and the hood nicked the bottom of the windshield, taking a chip out and putting a crack in it. Shoot. Luckily (and I kid you not here) the next day my dad called the insurance company and had them up my policy from liability to comprehensive, with a zero deductible on glass. The wierd thing is I didn't even tell him about that accident until after he told me he upped the policy! Wierd!

Craig and Brian: Man am I glad I didn't dump this off on a lesser car. I realized after looking at all those cars that none of them really can compare with my Cadillac...it's a Cadillac and they're not. Not to say they don't have any good qualities, but they're just not the same...or even close. My bad experience with that last Regal GS is probably the thing that really pushed me into fixing this one up. Didn't wanna deal with any salespeople or sales tactics or lesser cars, just wanted my Caddy. And since a newer Caddy is out of the question for now, I fixed mine up.

 

[Benzilla]

So you're really keeping her for a while then? Great! I might still get to meet her at a later meet.

And I'm glad you came to you senses, a Deville to a Regal is backwards...

 

[Guest]

Car looks good and when all is said and done you did the right thing, car payments suck. The way new cars depreciate, I'd rather just wait till they are a few years old and buy them for pennies on the dollar and in cash.! If you save enough cash for another car then by all means buy it just dont finance one if possible. :thumbsup: