My pride and joy for the last five years. But I have acquired another classic to go in its place in the garage, and can't keep them both.
This car is minty, all original, with an older repaint, with only 52K miles. Always garage kept. It was bought new in Michigan by a restaurateur's wife and obviously not driven all that much. She passed on in the early 1980s. Her husband's friend, also a restaurateur, begged if he ever sold the car to let him have it, because he was with the man's wife when she bought it and he was sentimental about it.
Well, the widower agreed in 1987 to sell the car to him. He kept it 19 years in his garage, only starting it, backing out and back in to keep things moving around internally. And in that 19 years, he put only 120 miles on it.
Because in those 19 years he never did anything to the car, he had no receipts to pass along to me, or anything to prove the mileage. But he promised it to be true. He was in his late 70's and couldn't drive the car any longer, and that's why he decided to sell it. In the five years I've owned it, I've kept every receipt for everything I've done to it. And that was mainly upon acquiring it, to make sure it was roadworthy and everything up to snuff.
My receipts, way up in the thousands of dollars, include all new dual exhaust system, complete brake system including master cylinder and power brake booster rebuild, brake lines, fuel line, gas tank re-lined, water pump, electric fuel pump, oil pump in engine, front-end suspension, new electric seat control, all new shocks, and total restoration of the automatic climate control air conditioning system.
I regularly exercise this car and have made several road trips in it, all with confidence. Everything works except the clock. The power windows move up and down properly, the AM/FM radio works correctly (but a rattle in the front speaker), power radio antenna works right, and it drives straight and powerfully, just as you'd expect a Cadillac to do.
