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70's and 80's Caddy's?

ar15meister said:
I saw this one on ebay. Its in Huntington Beach.....
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Looks like it's over on the other side of central park. Let me know if you want me to go look at it. I wouldn't mind checkin' out the '64ish 'vert in the back ground! I might do a little aimless cruising tomorrow and see if I can find it.
 
The only 70's one to buy is a 1970-72 DeVille with the 472 motor. In 70 the only GM car that put out more HP/TQ was the big block Corvette. I think the 472 came out in 68 but the styling was different. The styling of the 70 is the "Boss Hog" one from Dukes of Hazzard. The Eldorados are fun with 500 ci motors but they were only 190 HP! All the Eldorados in the late 60's through the 90's were front wheel drive.

A 472 powered car is what I would look for. My buddy inherited one from his grandfather and that thing burned rubber up and down the block! Unfortunately the humidity and rain rotted the body like swiss cheese. He was keeping it to build a late model Chevy pickup with that 472 but it got towed off from a property he sold and it ended up in the crusher. Tow yard wanted like $1500 for it (after towing, storing it) and he laughed when they couldn't find anyone to sell it to and scrapped it.
 
Look at used limo's also.....you can buy them cheaper in some instances and sometimes they will have lower miles/ better condition than a sedan (as long as they weren't commercial use). A early 80's Caddy limo with some cool paint, wheels and big stereo would be a great bar hopping car!
 
CDOWNS said:
What about this EL DOG RAG:driving:
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Cool. My lawyer had every year from 71-76 until he came to his senses and kept the finest one, a dark brown 73.
He also has a 60´s convert and a while ago got rid of 2 60´s coupes and some others..15 in all.
 
JupiterSunsation said:
The only 70's one to buy is a 1970-72 DeVille with the 472 motor. In 70 the only GM car that put out more HP/TQ was the big block Corvette. I think the 472 came out in 68 but the styling was different. The styling of the 70 is the "Boss Hog" one from Dukes of Hazzard. The Eldorados are fun with 500 ci motors but they were only 190 HP! All the Eldorados in the late 60's through the 90's were front wheel drive.

A 472 powered car is what I would look for. My buddy inherited one from his grandfather and that thing burned rubber up and down the block! Unfortunately the humidity and rain rotted the body like swiss cheese. He was keeping it to build a late model Chevy pickup with that 472 but it got towed off from a property he sold and it ended up in the crusher. Tow yard wanted like $1500 for it (after towing, storing it) and he laughed when they couldn't find anyone to sell it to and scrapped it.
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The 70´500 had 550ft.lbs torque and 400 hp...no Corvette had over 500 of torque or any other GM Bigblock except the 70´ Buick 455.
Hp wise the Chevelle was the king not the Corvette @ 450 on the 1970 LS-6. The highest on paper for Corvette was 435hp for the 69´Tripower L-71 427 but everybody knows thats only the official number as the L-88´s and ZL-1´s dynoed form everything between 525-585 and if went below 525 Gross on the dyno those hand assembled motors were not installed in a car.
 
i had a 76 Coupe deville, and my buddy had a 73 Couple deville. Mine had the 500CI, his the 472CI. The 472 was more powerful. But the 500 still had a lot of torque. The 500 in mine idled so low, and exhaust with muffler and resonator, you could barely hear it running. super smooth engine.

Mine was triple black, his was a pale yellow, white vinyl top. Needless to say, the black one was the looker. Sold it a couple years ago for 7500. It had 50k orig miles. I had it repainted when i bought it, they did a great job redoing it.

Those 80's caddy were underpowered, and engines were not too good. Had a 81 Coupe with the 4100, sucked. There is a company/builder that specializes in caddy 472's and 500's that can make some big power. Would have loved to have about 700FT lbs in that black 76 coupe!
 

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Skip all the trainer Cadillac's, and go right for Big Pimpin:eek::sifone:
 

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I have a white 1976 Eldo convertible with a red interior. 93,000 miles. Mechanically it's a 9 and cosmetically a 6. Needs a new top. Let me know if you're interested and I'll post pics.
 
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MILD THUNDER said:
i had a 76 Coupe deville, and my buddy had a 73 Couple deville. Mine had the 500CI, his the 472CI. The 472 was more powerful. But the 500 still had a lot of torque. The 500 in mine idled so low, and exhaust with muffler and resonator, you could barely hear it running. super smooth engine.

Mine was triple black, his was a pale yellow, white vinyl top. Needless to say, the black one was the looker. Sold it a couple years ago for 7500. It had 50k orig miles. I had it repainted when i bought it, they did a great job redoing it.

Those 80's caddy were underpowered, and engines were not too good. Had a 81 Coupe with the 4100, sucked. There is a company/builder that specializes in caddy 472's and 500's that can make some big power. Would have loved to have about 700FT lbs in that black 76 coupe!
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Gotta love the seat in those mid 70's Caddys, like sit'n on your living room couch :D
 
Buy an 86 with 4100 Adam. I could use the increase in income :)

seriously, look no newer than a 71. Last of the good ones.

The mid to late 70,s cars literally fell apart.Interior trim pieces were made from very brittle plastic. I haven't worked on one in decades that wasn't falling apart.

The 60's Cads were the nicest. Huge, solid, powerful, early versions of every toy imaginable. Power everything.
Only issue was rust and lots of it.

Our 66 DeVille ( gold on gold ) looked like this
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and our 68 Brougham ( green on black) looked like this
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disappeared from the bottom up.

Anything from the 80's is a POS. I spent many, many hours fixing those things and I sure as h ell wouldn't own one.
 
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