1967 Cadillac Convertible

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

the front end looks kinda '65 riviera-ish, all it needs is hide-away headlights. Or is it just me?

good catch Sammy!

[tabs]

Originally Posted by speeder

I love Cadillacs. The older, the better.

The first car I drove around in was my Dads 55 coupe Deville. White with Turquoise top..i remember him buying the car in March of 56 from a GM exec.

I have always loved the 47 fastback and the 50 through 53 converts.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by BK911

I honestly think I could land a helo on the back of that thing...I've landed on smaller ships (:

Nice!!!

[rfuerst911sc]

How much does the caddy weigh ? The rear quarters make the trunk look the size of a pick up That is a great looking car good luck with it .

[dad911]

Originally Posted by speeder

Actually, fuzzy dice in a car like that always makes my skin crawl a little. No one on earth was putting fuzzy dice in a new 1967 car and certainly no one was doing it 5 or 10 years later when it was aged a little.

Fuzzy dice were a cheesy 1950s thing. I just don't like it when people don't know their eras.

Same w all of the pimp references. It's true that pimps drove Cadillacs at one time but 99.99% of those cars were sold new to Protestant crackers, as conservative and Republican as they come. Instead of some stupid Super Fly costume, you should dress up like this to drive it:

Jee wiz, talk about triggered.....

I don't like it when people display passive aggression, to try to look superior, and don't know their facts: As times changed and racing became an organized sport, the kitschy dice remained part of car culture into the 1980s. https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-fuzzy-dice-527558

Mid 70's caddy almost killed me. Had a 4/6/8 cylinder auto switch system to try to save gas at the time. Throttle stuck, lucky even as a young inexperienced driver, I threw it into neutral and pounded the gas a few times, it recovered.

[speeder]

Oh FFS, put some wide white walls on it and knock yourself out. Those went out in about 1961. Wear a stupid "white guy's impression of a black pimp from 40 years ago" costume. Hang some dice from your Cadillac and throw in those plastic, skin-colored nuts hanging from the rear bumper. Mix your metaphors. Look like an idiot. It's a free country.

[dennis in se pa]

Nice!

I got a 1984 Biarittz vert last year out of Detroit. A pelican checked it out for me before I bought it and had it shipped to eastern PA. Only drive it around the neighborhood.

[tabs]

The 60's caddy's exude power and prestige.
When you owned a caddy you had arrived..and we're allowed into the country club.

[BK911]

Thanks for all the encouragement guys.
Would never have bought something like this, but it fell in my lap.
The more I drive it the more I love it.
Built a shed that fits 5 Porsches, and had to move two of them to fit this beast in!!

[BK911]

Originally Posted by dennis in se pa

Nice!

I got a 1984 Biarittz vert last year out of Detroit. A pelican checked it out for me before I bought it and had it shipped to eastern PA. Only drive it around the neighborhood.

Too cool.
Funny all these Porsche guys are branching out into completely different rides.

[dennis in se pa]

Originally Posted by BK911

Too cool.
Funny all these Porsche guys are branching out into completely different rides.

Getting old

[ZOO]

I would like something like that Cadillac with an electric motor conversion. It wouldn’t need range. Just lots of torque for cruising the town, and doing some epic, smoky burnouts .

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Originally Posted by ZOO

I would like something like that Cadillac with an electric motor conversion. It wouldn’t need range. Just lots of torque for cruising the town, and doing some epic, smoky burnouts .

Smoky burnout in a CADDY....yeah right...

What are you 12 years old...

The guy who bought that in 67 was at least in his 40's and thought of himself as a bit of a Country Club rake*...

The Gross Vehicle weight on that land yacht is probably close to 5000 lb... so how many electric motors is that going to take to move it?

*That is a sporty well to do charming to the ladies sort of guy for you kids who don't know nuthin.

[wayner]

When a friend helped me unload my T-bird we took it on an unlicensed drive around the block

We felt like two twelve year olds stealing moms car.

...and the slow ride was so cool :-)

[greengear]

Originally Posted by dennis in se pa

Nice!

I got a 1984 Biarittz vert last year out of Detroit. A pelican checked it out for me before I bought it and had it shipped to eastern PA. Only drive it around the neighborhood.

That's a good-looking car you got there. I really like those rims too.

[BeyGon]

Louver the hood on that thing. You will be able to get a lot of them

[tabs]

Originally Posted by greengear

That's a good-looking car you got there. I really like those rims too.

Bet you like green velvet suits with a big floppy hat to match to...

[fanaudical]

Looks like a fun project - if you can find a way to bring that back to drivable condition without too much trouble.

My family still has a mid-60's big-block Dodge product in the garage. My dad bought that new; my mom has had it ever since. I learned to drive in that car. Original paint, interior, engine, trans, everything - but everything needs to be gone through to make it safe. It won't physically fit in my garage (car is too long) otherwise it would be at my house. I often dream of restoring it, upgrading the brakes, and putting in a modern transmission behind the big block after converting it to TBI. Not a practical car, but would be a nice cruiser.

There is nothing quite like big Detroit iron from that era...

[Por_sha911]

Nice car! Reminds me of the `67 Bonneville I drove back way when I was a teen and this


IIRC, both had the same turning radius.

[dafischer]

That's a cool 67 BK. If I was going for a 60's Caddy convert, it would have to be a 64.