Every once in a while you guys feature a car that sends me daydreaming. This is one of 'em! How I'd love to embarrass my daughter by picking her up at school in this gem. ZZ Top blasting on the stereo as I cruise into a driveway full of yoga moms in their SUVs. Nice find, Tony!
This is a sad Cadillac .. I had a '61 5 years and I sold it before it was as bad as this (to a fellow hobbyist, it's still in use) as I had too many project cars: I run out of energy, time and money, in this order.
These will move ~forever with minimal maintenance, it's everything else that breaks (examples from mine): Air conditioning, alternator, a coupe of relays, a lot of fuses, brake pads, heater core (POs had driven with just water in engine, heater core rusted through from inside.)
Man, I wish once in a while I could see a Caddy with this kind of character. Imagine the street cred/cautious reverence you'd get driving this thing aggressively. No one's gonna mess with you in a car this tough.
Best of OPC. 
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That certainly is an old beater. Hope someone restores it!
i just hope someone drives it.
Every once in a while you guys feature a car that sends me daydreaming. This is one of 'em! How I'd love to embarrass my daughter by picking her up at school in this gem. ZZ Top blasting on the stereo as I cruise into a driveway full of yoga moms in their SUVs. Nice find, Tony!
The dented-in badge is trippy! Very cool patina as well
*sniff*
This is a sad Cadillac .. I had a '61 5 years and I sold it before it was as bad as this (to a fellow hobbyist, it's still in use) as I had too many project cars: I run out of energy, time and money, in this order.
These will move ~forever with minimal maintenance, it's everything else that breaks (examples from mine): Air conditioning, alternator, a coupe of relays, a lot of fuses, brake pads, heater core (POs had driven with just water in engine, heater core rusted through from inside.)
Man, I wish once in a while I could see a Caddy with this kind of character. Imagine the street cred/cautious reverence you'd get driving this thing aggressively. No one's gonna mess with you in a car this tough.
Since I already typed the phrase "nexus of the universe" today, I'll say I'm crazy about the emblem vortex happening on that fin.
Loving that badge shot.....very trippy. Awesome patina/rust too. Love the one red fender, +10 character.
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