A few days ago I saved this 62 caddy´s life. Some guy planned to build a couch by cutting down the trunk. That hurt me so much that I paid him some bucks and pulled that old boy to his new home. The car is almost complete,the sheet metal is straight with some minor rust, but the engine******* combo´s missing. Now I wonder what to do with that POS? It definitly needs to be slammed and a new set of wide whites on red steelies or 5 spokes with 1" white walls would make a good stance. But what about painting? I actually love that sun burnt old paint. I´m sure you ´ll have some great ideas!
I think you have the right idea already! I just saw 1 off thoughs last week. The guy had air ride on it, it was black (fresh paint) He went about the look a little diferant though. He had 17" red rallys with chrome smoothes in side the car was hamered. It looked about 10000000 feet long. It made me think. "That's so Money" I'm not sure what engine I'd run. All depends on the $$.
A buddy of mine still has a Caddy 500 engine which probably needs to be rebuilt.It´s a $ 1200 six banger ´cause 2 cylinders are kinda dead. Those Caddies are very high priced over here,that made me think about a Chevy or Pontiac 400. Certainly it´ll need to be a big cube engine , a 283 wouldn´t do
Black Laquer, with a white flake roof, red steelies hmmmmmmmm.......... ................and maybe bellflower tips.
a 1957 or 58 caddy 365 with dual quads, or an olds J2, both a dime a dozen........not........lol anyway, good luck Briggs
<font color="purple"> Since you're over there, how about the big Mercedes V8? Polish the valve covers and stuff. Or is that motor too*****ty? </font>
Hey! Nice to meet you here, Etienne!It´s good to know that you´re not only a great pinstriper and artist but also a photoshop pro. Thanks for your work! Wanna have a Caddy couch?
It'd make a KILLER El-Cadmino. I know what's it's like to score an american V/8 in Bavaria....spent 2.5 years in the Nuremburg area. We looked high and low for a SBC to power a crippled Austin Healy and finally settled for a 348... I'd take any big american V/8 I could afford and stay with the Cad-Mino idea. Choprods made a nice one from an orphan 58 chevy more-door, using a 62 GM back window section 'zactly like yours. Makes a wonderful rear glass for an el-camino style machine. Plan 2 would be to shorten the entire car to a sporty 2 door. The accompanying weight loss would make it easier to use a sbc in it to save some $$$$ Discaimer: These wacky ideas come from a warped thinking apparatus and may be damaging to your wallet, marriage and friendships.. your mileage may vary. Not valid in Costa Rica.
Hey! The world is a small thing I live about a 100 miles south Nuremberg and 60 miles west of Munich. I really like your El Cadmino idea and I have seen those pics of the 58 4dr being converted into a Camino here on the HAMB.Hell of a job !I ´ve also seen a 59 Caddy converted to a El Cadmino in Sweden about 2 years ago and it really looked great. A sbc is not that hard to find,ok, you can´t go to the next junkyard and say :One sbc,please. They would look at you with wide open eyes and tell you, that they´ve never heard about that engine.Maybe one older guy would remember they used 327´s on some Opel Diplomats. But searching the local papers or car mags mostly works out. I bought a good 327 250 HP std bore last weekend for about 300 dollars. Today a friend called me and told me about an 59 Oldsmobile engine and******* combo I could have for free, should I go for it?I don´t have a clue about olds engines Pson´t worry, I´m not yet married
Oh man, that thing is killer. I'd go w/ semi-gloss black w/ that color scallop...or go all out and hit it with green bass boat paint and white bass scallops.
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