todays barn find 7/28-07

this is my barn find, 76 cadillac coupe deville 69,000 , 500ci caddy motor turbo 400, little old lady called me and asked if i wanted it for parts. cause she just wanted it out of the garage been parked 20 years after husband died and she does not drive. got title but no keys, had to jack up the car to get at trans to disconnect the linkage to get into netrual. had to push it our of garage to the rollback, it is in old inner city house and the rollback could not get to it cause th house is kind of in front of the garage, i cant see how the got the caddy in garage running, that caddy is big, but it cost nothing.
the car is pretty solid, all parts and trim are there the interior is great.
now what to do with it????

 

pull the motor....

crush

and remove it from circulation...

why is it on this site again?

 

put some late 70's malibu springs in it and drive it

 

What Salty said...

 

the only things we like more than kelly...are 76 cads...
Turbo and Ozone

 

Drive it and enjoy it,,,,and when ya get through with it yank that big ol' caddy mill and stick it in a light weight hot rod! HRP

 

Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac,
Gangsta whitewalls, TV antenna in the big
You may not have a car at all
but remember brothers and sisters
you can still stand tall

Just be thankful for what you've got.

Diamond in the back
Sunroof top
diggin' the scene with a gangsta lean
Ooo-ooooo

 

looks like the same exact car i had for a winter ride a few years ago. sold it when gas hit $3.00 a gal. cost me 85 bucks to fill it up!

 

free is my kinda price...

 

Yeah, not exactly the "style/life/trad" stuff we want to see here, but maaaaan it's cool. Congrats on the great score. Loosen up that motor with some penetrating oil in the cylinders before trying to turn it over.

If it's a cherry, keep it like it is and cruise in it during the nice months. Put an overdrive trans in it, and that thing would be a baaad aaaaassss summer cruiser and cross country tripper.

I'd keep it!

-Brad

 

Dude, this is not a barn find in the traditional sense...this overwieight POS fright pig should be on a used car lot in places I cannot state here. Keep this shit off of the HAMB! Ebert.

 

I bought one just like it at a yard sale last year for 600 bucks. washed, wax, and a vac job brought 2950.00 on ebay

 

Please read the Modo of this site before posting!! You can find it posted plain as day when you first open the site,,,,Thank You, Please Drive Through!!

 

chaka chaka bow bow

 

I think what your saying You have a later model drive train for a rod project. I think that ok on hamb. The other post get rid of the body and any parts that can't be used in your project.

Put whats left on Craigslist for bucks or free or some site etc. Some Caddy guy would love have it, as much a a guy junking a solid 49 Merc coupe after he pulled the motor.

 

Wow, didn't think this post was too far outta line or anything! Honestly, it's worth around $3k or so on Ebay if you could get it running. You can get some keys made, do a tune-up, etc and probably get it going and looking nice for a few hundred bucks. Why not do that, list it on Ebay with no reserve, and use the $$ for your hot rod? That car is too nice and low mile to just strip the motor/tranny and crush it! Even if you don't want to screw with it, you could probably get ~$1500 or so without even touching it.

 

I got these cheeseburgers...

 

you could make a donk out of it, you know, those big wheel cars

 

Detail the heck out of it
get it running good
sell it PURE PROFIT I love america
Mark l

 

I agree, this maybe shouldn't have been posted on here as a 'barn find', I got all excited to see what it was, and it opened up to a mafia staff car from the 70's...but you do stand to make a good profit from it since you didn't pay anything for it. There is a market out there for these cars...and this one looks nice. Clean it up and Ebay it. You might be surprised at the $$$ you make from it.

 

I think you should pull the 500 put it in a light car and blow the doors off of the 2 nay sayers. I haven't heard anyone complaining about putting the car on eBay.

 

-Would make a great parts runner... Like Darnell's Caddy in "Christine"!!

 

Maybe Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch could use this?
Huuuuuuuuuuugggggyyyyyyyyyyy Beeeeeeeaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr!

 

ems,

I think any old car is a good find, Cadillac's are great cars. Get it, drive it, for a while and if you don't like sell on ebay. Cool find.......I think it fits this post as a barn find, it was just in a garage. "I'm a '49 Caddy man"

Cruise

 

Caddys be cool el gotto.

 

Nice score. It's not a thread on the HAMB unless people bitch and whine.

 

I'd be willing to bet that the same statement could have been said about the 40 Willys around the time that it was considered "worthless"...except you would have to replace "overweight" with "lightweight".

The car is over 30 years old....imagine if all the 30's and 40's cars had been scrapped back in the 60's and 70's.

 

remember when mopar muscle cars were worthless trash on used car lots, now you are to f???ing poor to buy one

 

At the price, you can't go wrong. These are cool drivers, nothing else quite like them. In good operating condition, you should be able to turn it for a pretty penny. Until you decide what to do, get it roadworthy and enjoy it.