1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham project- will it run- walkaround pt.1
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- This is the first video about the start-up of the car. It's probably going to be a longer project. In this video I present the car and do a walk around it and talk a little about its history what I know so far. In the next video I will try to investigate more the condition of the car and what could have happened to it.
Good luck and best wishes on this unit! Will be awesome when completed 👍
Thank you!
Amazing styling. Hope you are able to enjoy driving it someday. Best of luck tracking more of the history
Yes agree! Hope that too. Thank you!
Great project. I'm looking forward to this car's journey in your garage.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this in videos, its exciting to see and inspiring to keep restoring my own car
Congratulations on your recent acquisition! What a joy it will be to watch the progress you make with it! Having lived in Beverly Hills, California during the 1990's, I'm well familiar with the "Casa de Cadillac" dealership, which is still in business today! I've subscribed to your channel, and look forward to being a frequent visitor!
Thank you! That must have been awesome. Wish I could visit them and ask them if they have any sales records from the time. Would be fun to know who bought the car when new. Your'e welcome to visit the channel and I will try to update as often I can.
Is that the Cadillac with the stainless steel roof? If so, very, very rare. Some of these year Cadilacs cost more than the same year Rolls Royce when they were new
Yes this car has stainless steel roof. Yes they were quite expensive and only 300 cars were made in 1958.
This is such a rare car! You had to be a really rich person back in the day to have this car, it would be like the equivalent to a Maybach in today's cars.
Yes it is and it took me a while to find one.
You've studied these, so you'll know that the 59' and 60 certainly are very different and were made at Pininfarina in Turin Italy. Dad had a 60.
My grandfather bought a brand new 58' and a 57 Eldorado Biarritz for my grandmother a year earlier. He liked her motor with the dual quads so much that he traded his 58' for a 57'! Hah! He really loved these cars. My father would cruise around Springfield Illinois in the late 50s early 60s in these with his buddies. The traffic police would actually stop the oncoming traffic and let them through, for they were convinced that it was a governor or senator etc. driving it! LOL! 😄
Yes I've read some history of these cars. According some information they were hoping to save money by taking a production car and send it to Italy for modification instead of handbuilding them at Fletwood. Don't know how that turned out. Did they save any monye or made a loss on every car aswell in 59' and 60'? Intresting story, thank you for telling it!
@@ifixmycarmyself2502,
I would think that they lost money on the 59' and 60' model also, lol.
A funny thing. In 59' they made one hundred of these at Pininfarina, but one was dropped in the water at the port of arrival, so for the 1960 model Pininfarina created and shipped 101 of them! This is the story, but I wonder if maybe a mobster (who was in charge of the dockworkers?) might have 'appropriated' one of the 59's!!??
The 59' and 60' model had a triangular window that slid into the top behind the rear door window when the rear door was opened! Really cool! The are crazy servo motors in the trunk on either side that actuated these, with a slick upholstered cover on them.
Your car of course has the alloy rims (I think they are magnesium)?, also the 'brushed' stainless top and the Mouton fur carpeting. The top of the car to the ground was very low-slung one of the if not the lowest car to date at its production, at least for an American car anywhere near its size.
The 57' Eldorado Brougham also has the distinction of being the car on which 'pinstriped' white walled tires were first introduced! White walls being wider before the sleek pinstriped ones on the Brougham!
As Dad recalled now, Grandpa's Broughams took about 2 or 3 days to lose the air in the airbags when brand-new! Also, when you accelerate the car will (is supposed to) raise a little higher on it's airbags, (intentionally) and ride like a cloud on the highway!
Cool car, cool car project. I'm doing a '66 Ford Fairlane. Subscribed. Well done.
Thank you! good luck with your Fairlane!
I make parts for these cars, new hood springs are some of them. I have #615.
Good to know and yes, the hood springs are rather weak. I will probably need a lot of parts later when I start the restoration. Will be interesting to know what else you make. Thank you for this information!
I have car number 656 mine is in about similar condition i hope to get it moving in the next 2 years good to see yours i will keep an eye on your progress
Nice to hear! is it still in Australia?
It always baffles me when such magnificent automobiles such as this end up trashed like this one - like the note said "what happened?"
Well, I don't know about trashed, but there is for sure a lot of work. But I have seen very good restorations that started out of a car worse than this :)
Good luck on that! Personally, I’d like to see more on the challenger…maybe some up-grades…or whatever. I get it tho, sometimes you need a change of pace 👍. You plan any changes for the cad ?
Thank you! I have been working on 2 Challenger projects, one after the other for some years and felt that it was time to do something else. Some videos about the work one one of the cars on my channel. Only plans are to get it running, do the registration and then take it from there. Perhaps installing aftermarket air suspension if original is impossible to fix. Thank you for your comment!
@@ifixmycarmyself2502 I understand that…keep moving forward 👍
Now there is a real challenge to restore.... ;) Kul att du har lyckats hitta en riktig Brougham :) Antar att du varit i Säter och inspekterat den som finns där ? Mvh Håkan
Ja, det är kul! Ja, den är fantastiskt finFrågan är om min kan bli så fin. den renoveringen tog lång tid.
@@ifixmycarmyself2502 klart den kan bli lika fin :) Frågan är kanske om du vill det. En kompis i Sundsvall har också en, men den är orenoverad i bra skick. Det är väldigt trevligt det också :)
PK = Peter Krell
Which one of the owners let it get in such bad shape???😡😡😡😡
I really cant tell and perhaps it's only a thing that just happens. Some technical issue and the car was unused for a very long time. It does not bother me to much. The whole idea is to have is to have a hobby and I would not be able to afford a restored one.