The horn touch sensor is embedded in the rubber on the inner side of the steering wheel rim on the 1969 model, not on the outer or top of the steering wheel. You would be setting it off all the time when just touching the steering wheel. The sensor is not in the wood trim. That is the shoulder harness belt up in the ceiling. The top Cadillac Eldorado Broughm in '57-'58 with the stainless steel roof and in '59 and '60 was the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham 4-door which had a body by Pininfarina from Italy which cost around $22-23K+.
correct. i have a 69 75 series limo. the 69 caddy horns were defective. in todays world it would of be a "recall" item to be addressed. mine also does not work. ruclips.net/video/I8F83VYLc-g/видео.html
Agreed. A diesel in that thing would've ruined the mashed-potato feel of the accelerator, overwhelmed the brakes, made it corner like a drunken weeble and made it clatter louder than a Chevy 4.3L with six missing rod bearings.
I thought of him when he said it! It’s true tho guy never finishes them kinda kills the hype for his next video where it’s a new car and that last project car it basically abanded to never be finished in video format
Wizard, the Fleetwood turned out to be a gem. It's too bad you're not planning on keeping it. It brought back fond memories of my dads 1970 Fleetwood Brougham painted in Spartacus Blue Firemist he owned when I was a kid nearly half a century ago. He used to pack the Caddy with my brother and I as well as all the neighborhood kids and take us over to the Dairy Queen for ice cream. It was quite a sight!!
So true...I also remember these old-fashioned ' alarm switches' in the front fenders.......however it could also be the hole for flag-wearing during parades or Presidential trips.
My first car was an 86 Fleetwood Brougham. Love these boats and I'm glad to see one getting treated well. Hope she serves you well. I sure loved driving mine to high school when I was younger
True enough, Caddy's were made for the open road, regardless, I refuse to drive in any city in a rice-rocket just to save a few (gas) dollars. I need the "Jaws of Life" just to get into one with my head scraping the interior roof. Getting out requires a contortionist act which my old bones can do without. Runt cars are made for runts, period.
Moved to the smokies about a year ago from Wisconsin. I agree. I don't have much desire to pilot such a wallowing beasr around the twisties down here. In 'Sconnie, it would have been a treat !
When I was a teen working in a gas station, we had one of the gigantic (by today's standards) Sun "automotive engine analyzers". that was able to show the spark wave forms on a screen. That was the high end scan tool back then.
Back around 76 I was driving a 69 GTO 4 speed to school (with a Quadrajet that ran fantastic) and the place I took it to to get tuned (about every other month) used one of those. You didn't roll it out to the car, you rolled the car to it.
That oscilloscope made by Sun worked very nicely. I have a smaller version of the one you are talking about and it will show you everything. In 1976 went to a school in willow grove pa. held by Sun and it was very informative. Everything they taught that night was right on the money!!!!!!
I had a '70 DeVille conv't. Metallic Kelly green, white top, white leather seats. Can't remember the miies on her, though. Lord, I ADORED that car! ICE A/C, top and windows worked perfect. 472 under the hood; sucked fuel, but oboy she had POWER!!! This was the O N L Y car I ever bought back after I sold her. So, to answer your question Wizard, she was my favorite Caddy of them all.......and I have owned over 120 cars in my life!! [I'm 64]
Old Cadillacs are awesome. So nice to see one put back on the road. My second car was a 1976 Coupe Deville and I loved that car. Maybe one day I'll have another one to love.
You should have dressed up with a suit, tie, cane, and top-hat while taking that fine automobile for a test drive. You can make some serious bank renting out that beauty for weddings.
This car turned out fantastic. I would definitely recommend fixing the horn and the clock if those are the only 2 things wrong with it. Probably fairly easy to sort out. Maybe a nice detailing as well would put a nice finishing touch on it especially for the leather seats. Great work Wizard! 🧙♂️
The clocks in GM vehicles stopped working approximately one day after the warranty expiration. My friends and i used to call it “the optional Delco broken clock.”
He was pushing the wrong area on the wheel. You squeezed the inner part of the steering wheel. I bet the horn actually works he just doesn't know how to work it.
Jay Leno is salivating over this I'm sure! You should reach out to him via YT and see if he'll feature it on Jay's Garage. He will die laughing at that analog cruise-control!
@artoo45 The Fleetwood Brougham is my favorite Cadillac model (the Fleetwood Sixty Special is a CLOSE second, considering the Brougham evolved from it) and I've always thought the '69-'70 generation was eye-catching (I think that's in part, because it as a prelude to the '71-'76 generation's styling cues; yes, I also happen to like the '65-'68 and '71-'76 Fleetwood Brougham as well).
So glad this car was preserved! Though the carburetor was modernized, it's covered by the original air cleaner. Time capsules rule! Exciting to see how things were done.
I love them big ol Cadillacs. I've got a all original 78 Fleetwood I got from my dad. It's the car we always drove when going on vacation. I'm planning on doing the same with my family after I finish going through it. Plus he has 3 mid to late 70's Eldorados for sale.
I was so excited to see this done ✅😃🤗👍👍👍🙏! We had several of these in the 70’s. If I’m ever near you when I visit the states, I would love to see it 😃👍! I can easily set up a Quadra jet for you and show you how to adjust it. Did hundreds over the years. The hole in the left fender is for the factory alarm system that used a coke box like key to switch on/off. Love it 😊! Awesome work man!
You're right the q Jet is an amazing carburetor and can be hot rodded with the best of them. They performed well in modified production & super stock classes back in the day. Off road wise I don't think there's a better carb out there. With the bowl stuffer & single float they perform excellently on hard trails. We used to go to the Junkyards and get the good rods, jets, hangers and metering rods out of these big blocks for performance tuning work.
I use to rebuild the Q-jetd on all my GM cars. They were easy to rebuild and reliable.... Much prefer them over Holly's.... Holly's could be a real fire hazard... Drip and seep fuel...
Thanks for the awesome recap of this. My parents had a 69 Sedan DeVille when I growing up. They kept it 12 years and traded it for a new 82 Buick Park Ave.
That's so awesome that you brought it back to all original engine and got everything working like the cruise control!! Some collector will buy it and treasure it!
Wow! That 1969 Fleetwood Brougham is a beauty! Those bladed front fenders are so majestic! To me, the 1969 Cadillacs have the most awesome taillights. I love the 3 dimensional element to them! I’ve loved Cadillacs since I was 5 years old. It was my aunt’s brand new 1972 Fleetwood Brougham that did it for me. I’ll never forget the aroma of all that rich red leather upholstery! I daily drive a 1994 Eldorado. It’s quite the substantial car… at least until its Northstar’s head gasket blows! Mine has about 45,000 miles on it, so I’m hoping I still have a good bit of time before that happens! Keep doing great stuff Car Wizard!
Nice Caddy Wizard! I think the plug in the fender is where the alarm keyhole was. I had a friend in the early 70's that had a 1969 coupe,that is where his alarm was turned on with the key.
Haha back in the day my dad told me as a rule of thumb that a working clock was the best indicator that a car would be good. Of course meant nothing but was funny.
I absolutely love the 69 Caddy. Mine was a Sedan Deville, same 472 engine. Very powerful, the owners manual said 375 hp. When you floored it that sound was music to my ears, one thing I learned quickly was it didn't corner like the 71 Firebird I had before it. The first time I went into a corner at 60 mph like I always did in the Firebird the front tires went to screaming, and the car kept going straight ahead. Scared the crap out of me. From then on I kept the high speed driving to straight line roads. My friends made fun of it, but I loved it. We drag raced, and I usually won. They weren't laughing then. I learned quickly that while they sat on the starting line roasting the rear tires off, I was already half way through the quarter before they started rolling good. Lots of fun and good memories.
@@caseybhargraves3696 it doesn't pass my inspection. The horn is used for defensive driving. Can't count how many times I used the horn to prevent a accident.
Back in the day, radiators and heater cores were made with copper tubing and brass tanks soldered together. They could be boiled out, rodded clear and resoldered if necessary. Now it’s all all aluminum cores and plastic tanks glued together which is why when they get clogged or start to leak it’s take the old part out and replace it with a new one. Yes, I’m a curmudgeonly retired ASE master mechanic who walked to school five miles in snow uphill both ways. :-) P.S. I recommend Leather Love leather treatment. Clean the seats with saddle soap then treat the seats twice. Let the car sit in the sun to get the interior good and hot and the seats will soak up the treatment. It’s the best leather treatment I’ve ever used.
I’ve been driving a ‘69 Sedan de Ville for 30 years (it used to be my aunt’s since new) and always had a hard time starting it first thing in the morning. Your suggestion of not running 87 octane was a game changer; I filled it up with premium and it starts almost immediately! Thank you 🙏 👍
I’m quite happy that you’ve finished the “Slowhaughm” (sp?) so beautifully. I send you and yours my best wishes. Mrs. Car Wizard rocks as well. For she is your support. Yet my favorite Caddy is a 1971 Eldorado convertible. I have one in in sight in Louisiana? Best agin, Jeff.
In the top 3 of the road cars I've ever owned [I am 67] was my 1968 Fleetwood Brougham. EIGHT electric side windows, including the little vent windows , front and rear. Air ride, cruise control, the foot rests you mentioned, automatic air conditioning, AM/FM stereo radio, power EVERYthing! I bought it from my father, who bought it new. Cost right around $7K, as I recall. Had a 375 HP 472 CID engine which made 525 lbs ft torque. It was the biggest V-8 gas engine produced for a car, at the time. Got pretty good fuel mileage, too! Depending on how it was driven and the terrain, I got as much as 17 MPG out of the car. Put many, many miles on it. The car was stolen from me - never recovered or seen again. Otherwise, I'd probably still have it. A few points of order: it is a transducer, that which makes the cruise control function. "Dieseling," or "run on," is more the fault of too fast an engine idle RPM, than that of octane level. The hole in the fender is more likely where a key switch for an aftermarket alarm system was, at some point. That car NEEDS white stripe tires. Well presented and explained video. Nice car. Keep the videos coming!
Congrats, Wizard!! Nice to see this on the road. Too bad GM squandered the opportunity to be a world leader. This car is still from the era when Cadillac was still the "standard of the world".
Beautiful Caddy Wizard! Back when Cadillac was still truly the standard of the world. If I had a 4 car garage with one more space I'd seriously consider buying it from you. I take it the automatic leveling suspension still works as well. No sagging and you never mentioned any issues. The first car with cruise was a 1958 Chrysler. The 1959 Cadillacs were the first Cadillacs with available cruise control option. Available on the Eldorado Biarritz and Fleetwood. Younger people have no idea how expensive and rare the cruise control option was, even on Cadillacs, until the 1980s. VERY desirable and rare option on 1960s Cadillacs. It was still revolutionary, high technology then. Lap and shoulder seatbelts became federally mandatory safety equipment on all cars in 1967. The first few years the shoulder straps were separate because at the time car companies had been building cars with lap belts only. When the shoulder belts became mandatory the separate belt was the only way they could meet the code before they developed the integrated 3 point single belt with retractor in the 1970s we use today.
Beautiful car! I love the Fleetwood, best proportions of the 69s, IMO. I think it's great you decided to save the old 472. 68 might be my favorite, because of its beautiful face: the vertically stacked headlights, fine spaced grill bars, grill shorter at the sides, and massive hood coming to a sharp point in the middle, it just had so much character.
In 1969 my father bought a 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham for my mother. That was a nice car back then. That was the first car that we had that had air conditioning. Real wood panels on the doors, not cheap imitation plastic. Footrests in the back of the front seat. 2 fold down bars in the back. The stereo soumded really nice compared to the am radio in my fathers car. As a young boy I remember having to help my father change a bulb in the taillight. Dad couldn't get his hand in, but I could easily get my arm in and get the job done.
Automotive RUclipsrs: Look at all these artifacts like QuadraJets, engine analyzers and glass headlights, aren't they weird? Me: Oh lordy I must be old now.
@chris younts Safety regulations for pedestrians. Even though Volvo kept using glass headlights on its cars until the mid 2000s. Shouldn't just sand plastic headlights, though. Need to rough sand and apply clear coat. They start to go bad because the original clear coat wears.
An hour ago I was just using an inductive timing light and a tach/dewell meter to set the idle, points, and ignition timing on my 1976 Triumph Spitfire. I'm 37, some of the old skills aren't completely lost yet. Once I get some fresh gas in the car I'll be breaking out my vacuum gauges to properly tune the engine.
@chris yountsAs a result of a different comment about classic cars of the future I was looking around the car park at work. A colleague has a 1999 Mercedes and the headlights are almost opaque. A 2004 Honda wasn't much better. What will 21st century cars be like in fifty years time, and will anyone be able to get spares?
Hey Car Wizard, I'm 58 and remember those land yachts as a kid. My Dad had a '67 Ford LTD. Very similar. It had a 390 in it. The power steering was insanely light and made driving on So Cal Freeways 'exciting'. But it had front power disk brakes. A fly landing on the pedal could stop the car dead in it's track at any speed. I learned to drive in that thing. Learn to parallel park like a pro. I can parallel park a battleship if I needed to ;)
My 1982 Eldorado had that alarm system. When I was really young, my grandmother had a Ford Fairmont that had that system too. Why on earth would anyone think a Fairmont would need a security system is beyond me.
That is exactly like my Dad's '69 Cad Fleetwood except his was green. Me, my brother and sister took our driving tests in it. We had to parallel that big 'ol boat. Loved that car.
Mr. WIZARD, this video brought back great memories. I remember looking at the new '69S at the local Cadillac/Olds dealer. I still have the large '69 sales brochure I got that day. There was nothing like the wonderful smell of a new Cadillac interior!!!
You guys have my Sorento in your shop waiting to be worked on, I just learned you are a RUclipsd and am beyond excited to hear this. Watching your content makes me feel like it’s in the best of hands
Imagine run this beautiful Cadillac in Brazil where standard gasoline has 27.5% of ethanol and premium has 25% and one gallon costs around 5 dollars... carburetors would love our mix of petrol and sugar cane juice
I had this exact car in the exact color scheme. I drove it to high school every other day as it was my dad's spare. I loved it but didn't use it much in the later years. It remained on the driveway and began to grow bushes from the wiper enclosures and we had it towed away and junked in about 1980. The car we had was a lemon from day one but I was a kid and loved driving it.
You think this car’s big, you should see a fleet wood 75 limousine. It drove like it was on a bath of oil. It was big and black, and I knew this car came from greatness.
Wizard- Nice to see your Caddy back on the road. It looks great, and I know you're proud of it, as you should be. Pro Tip: Put whitewall tires on it. It will transform the car and make it look more period correct.
The seat belt above you is for the driver and front passenger. I had a couple of 1970 Cutlass and they were the same. When you were driving you were not wearing your seat belt properly. You have 2 of them.
Correct. 3-point belts were not required in 1969. The shoulder belts along the headliner had a stud on it that hooked into the lap belt latch tang. They were a PITA because they did not retract or self-adjust. By 1974/1975, there were 3-point belts with a retractor/tensioner reel generally in the ceiling.
Steve Varholy The ones with the tang that hooked to the lap belt came later. In GM’s of this era, there were two additional buckles on the front seat for the shoulder belts. I remember cleaning my Dad’s ‘70, and the mess of belts and buckles on the front seat: Three lap belt buckles, a strap for the center passenger, and two additional buckles for the shoulder belts.
I didn't know Car Wizard liked Cadillacs. Right on! I got a 66 Fleetwood Brougham in similar shape (no cracked dash, headliner intact, etc) and love it.
My Eldorado has 3 horns in one, when I use it people wake up and pay attention. Rice-rockets have 1 little squeaky horn that sounds hilarious, nothing that conveys "watch out" or "pay attention". A small dog makes a louder noise.
My Fleetwood had a stupid loud horn. I don't know if it was a 3 tone, but it was pretty easily twice as loud as a modern car. I should have saved the horn when I sold the car.
@@ammarokla7217 I've actually installed air horns on my vehicles in the past because people don't hear the stock ones... I should do more of that. Fun for everybody!
The clock is usually very easy to fix. There are points, kind of like in a distributor. When they make contact, they get pushed away from eachother and tightens a spring. As the clock ticks away, the points gets closer, meets and the procedure starts again. Those points will get covered in soot over time, due to the tiny spark that occurs when they meet. Clean it out with sandpaper or nail-file and it will start to work again. Had a 69 Volvo 121 Amazon wagon as my first car. 70 Cadillac DeVille convertible as my second. Quite an upgrade :D
@@artcamera5514 I Know! She thought it looked like a cigarette box. It was maroon with a chocolate vinyl top and chocolate interior. She had me get a VW Bug and a 5 series BMW 😟...hated both of them.
@@artcamera5514 I just finished my pipeline training and was assigned to McCord AFB, her brother gave it to me...her Dad was a Korean Crew Chief... that's another story. If you want a happy life make her a happy wife 😁.
Wizard, you’re an awesome mechanic. But, for the rim blow wheel, you pinch the inner, flexible portion of the wheel vs tapping the top side. Awesome job!
Wizard... love the video. Rim-blow is on the inner side of the steering wheel rim.. you were pushing on the out diameter. There is a vinyl insert on the inner part of rim... push that. The woodgrain was just decorative. The car needs white wall tires. bad... it looks naked without whitewalls. Our family had lots of "rim-blows"... a 1970 Dart Swinger, a 1970 Lincoln Mark III (super nice car)... As a side note, I agree about the fuel comments you made. I live north of Detroit, and there is NO alcohol-free fuel around here. Everything is 10% ethanol. The Caddy is beautiful!
That's a beautiful old ride. The belt on the roof is a shoulder belt. That shoulder belt and the lap belt saved my life when my 17-yo self decided to see how fast I could get my dad's 225 slant-six '67 Valiant going. I lost control, hit 3 trees and wound up upside down soaked in gasoline.
Properly maintained and adjusted drum brakes can be perfectly fine if you don't over drive the car. Often is the case when a disk brake conversion is done, the drum parts that are coming off are well beyond their useful service life and that's why there is such a spectacular improvement.
1:00..."We're moving a big boat into the shipping lane here" (LOL) And upon your return to port, you moor it. You have one spectacular Cadillacular specimen there! Congratulations on your 11th hour decision not to abominate it into an unoriginal diesel, but to instead fix up the original 472 gas engine and reinstall that! I had a '69 Fleetwood Brougham in 1985, a green one that had 93k on it when I bought it. It had the 472, working CC (had to set it 10 mph faster than desired), working AC (til the fan quit), working AM/FM/8 Track, no leather, but it did have tilt and telescopic steering, and a working self-closing trunk door. And the trunk was big enough to put 5 bodies in. I got it to pal around on weekends with a Cadillac loving friend. I always loved the chandelier ("lantern") taillights on '69 Cadillacs. That's why I got a '69! The worst thing I could say about it was the fading paint, a hesitant starter, and the fan quit working. I sold it later that year after only putting on 3k miles since I broke up with my friend. It went to a good home as the new owner was a mechanic who could certainly fix the fan and the starter hesitation. He got more enjoyment out of the "mafia machine" than I did as he had put on 20k miles when I spoke to him about it a year of so after I sold it to him.
It's great to not only see it fixed up and running and riding so well, but that you left the original engine in it. That big block Cadillac engine is the way that thing should be motivated, especially considering it was before any malaise era garbage. My only personal issue is the lack of whitewall tires; it's odd to see an enormous luxury car of that era without them as the thick black sidewall is just not as elegant. Great work overall, though, keeping a car like this in shape for many more years of enjoyment.
You should install a phenolic carb plate between the intake and the carb,it will insulate it from heat. You wouldn't have boiling problem anymore. I have a car with a carb and i use gas with ethanol without problems in trafic or hot weather.
Nice Cadillac car wizard! My first Caddy is a 2012 CTS Wagon and I am loving it. Love to see these videos and learn about the brand's rich history and beginnings
Wizard: Not in the city where we are now.
Camera: Nothing but trees and fields.
I was going to say. I'm in NY. Kansas City isn't even a city. Haha.
I was raised in the country and I know exactly what he means....everything's relative.
HJ Ford he’s not in Kansas City. He’s a few hours south
In Kansas, that is a city.
Kansas in a nutshell
The horn touch sensor is embedded in the rubber on the inner side of the steering wheel rim on the 1969 model, not on the outer or top of the steering wheel. You would be setting it off all the time when just touching the steering wheel. The sensor is not in the wood trim. That is the shoulder harness belt up in the ceiling. The top Cadillac Eldorado Broughm in '57-'58 with the stainless steel roof and in '59 and '60 was the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham 4-door which had a body by Pininfarina from Italy which cost around $22-23K+.
correct. i have a 69 75 series limo. the 69 caddy horns were defective. in todays world it would of be a "recall" item to be addressed. mine also does not work. ruclips.net/video/I8F83VYLc-g/видео.html
Legend has it: The Car Wizard once defused a bomb just by talking to it.
Legend also say that the Car Wizard around house kick Chuck Norris out of buying a bad car too!!!
Great, that's just great. More jokes that will just be copy pasted to every single wizard video...
I heard it was the uni bomber. He saved thousands of lives that day.
He is......... the most interesting Mechanic in the world.
Dos Equis commercial reference
Its true, I was the bomb.
My favorite car in the shop. The 472 belonged in it. Thanks for saving a piece of automotive history.
So glad that the 472 is what you ended up going with. Beautiful engines and a beautiful car.
Agreed. A diesel in that thing would've ruined the mashed-potato feel of the accelerator, overwhelmed the brakes, made it corner like a drunken weeble and made it clatter louder than a Chevy 4.3L with six missing rod bearings.
"We all know RUclipsrs don't ever get their projects done." Love the lowkey dig at Tavarish.
Sending Steve more like it 👏
I thought of him when he said it! It’s true tho guy never finishes them kinda kills the hype for his next video where it’s a new car and that last project car it basically abanded to never be finished in video format
Yeah, true.
Wizard's voice is so soothing. Takes us off to automotive dream land every time.
SOOOO TRUE
It really is
I can't picture him ever being mad. I wish I was like that
Wizard, the Fleetwood turned out to be a gem. It's too bad you're not planning on keeping it. It brought back fond memories of my dads 1970 Fleetwood Brougham painted in Spartacus Blue Firemist he owned when I was a kid nearly half a century ago. He used to pack the Caddy with my brother and I as well as all the neighborhood kids and take us over to the Dairy Queen for ice cream. It was quite a sight!!
When your turning radius is a whole zip code. I love it.
“I have to move so far away just to fit the whole thing in” should be on a t-shirt with a picture of this car.
Wizard, that hole in the fender looks likes a key switch for alarm they used to use back in the day.
Oh no its for a diplomats flag! HAHA
I had a car with one of those. They used a barrel lock similar to what you see on vending machines.
So true...I also remember these old-fashioned ' alarm switches' in the front fenders.......however it could also be the hole for flag-wearing during parades or Presidential trips.
It is/was an alarm key hole. Too bad he didn't say anything about it.
My first car was an 86 Fleetwood Brougham. Love these boats and I'm glad to see one getting treated well. Hope she serves you well. I sure loved driving mine to high school when I was younger
Such a wonderful boat of a car. I love land yachts of this era, glad you kept the original engine too. It’s too nice and original. Great video Wizard
Hey Car Wizard , you've sure shown some great respect for that ole' Caddy, gettin' er back up to par. Good man, great Mechanic!
That's the exact environment that a land yacht like that was made for.
I know - barreling down little traveled roads with gentle transitions - what a joy to cruise in that car.
Instantly made me think of Texas ranchers driving their herds.. LOL
True enough, Caddy's were made for the open road, regardless, I refuse to drive in any city in a rice-rocket just to save a few (gas) dollars. I need the "Jaws of Life" just to get into one with my head scraping the interior roof. Getting out requires a contortionist act which my old bones can do without. Runt cars are made for runts, period.
Moved to the smokies about a year ago from Wisconsin. I agree. I don't have much desire to pilot such a wallowing beasr around the twisties down here. In 'Sconnie, it would have been a treat !
@@marvinthiessen3454 stfu and drive your granny car
When I was a teen working in a gas station, we had one of the gigantic (by today's standards) Sun "automotive engine analyzers". that was able to show the spark wave forms on a screen. That was the high end scan tool back then.
Back around 76 I was driving a 69 GTO 4 speed to school (with a Quadrajet that ran fantastic) and the place I took it to to get tuned (about every other month) used one of those. You didn't roll it out to the car, you rolled the car to it.
That oscilloscope made by Sun worked very nicely. I have a smaller version of the one you are talking about and it will show you everything. In 1976 went to a school in willow grove pa. held by Sun and it was very informative. Everything they taught that night was right on the money!!!!!!
Wizard: *Demos cruise control*
Father Douglas: *heavy breathing*
No quirk was spared.
Too old for carsandbids
THIS.THIS.THIS.THIS.THIS
I had a '70 DeVille conv't. Metallic Kelly green, white top, white leather seats. Can't remember the miies on her, though. Lord, I ADORED that car! ICE A/C, top and windows worked perfect. 472 under the hood; sucked fuel, but oboy she had POWER!!! This was the O N L Y car I ever bought back after I sold her. So, to answer your question Wizard, she was my favorite Caddy of them all.......and I have owned over 120 cars in my life!! [I'm 64]
At least the clock is correct twice a day.
Yeah but how do you know when those times occur? 😃
James French yes it’s right on the clock.
That’s the one thing on my Lexus that doesn’t work lol
"Look at the size of this trunk. You can put three bodies in there." DiNiro in 'Analyze This'...hahahah
Hahaahhaah diniro in almost all his movies!!! Lmao
NO! That is a 5 body trunk if I ever saw one.
DeMuro in Analyze THISSSSS
Was that the movie where the car gets rear ended at the traffic lights and the trunk springs open?
Old Cadillacs are awesome. So nice to see one put back on the road. My second car was a 1976 Coupe Deville and I loved that car. Maybe one day I'll have another one to love.
Had a 76 coupe also 👍🏻
You should have dressed up with a suit, tie, cane, and top-hat while taking that fine automobile for a test drive. You can make some serious bank renting out that beauty for weddings.
It's still not nice enough for weddings.
This car turned out fantastic. I would definitely recommend fixing the horn and the clock if those are the only 2 things wrong with it. Probably fairly easy to sort out. Maybe a nice detailing as well would put a nice finishing touch on it especially for the leather seats. Great work Wizard! 🧙♂️
Michael Sackstein gotta leave one thing broken otherwise another thing will break
darknessofcod haha that’s mostly true on German cars. But who knows that could be the case here
The trunk lid motor seems to be out too.
The clocks in GM vehicles stopped working approximately one day after the warranty expiration. My friends and i used to call it “the optional Delco broken clock.”
He was pushing the wrong area on the wheel. You squeezed the inner part of the steering wheel. I bet the horn actually works he just doesn't know how to work it.
"...this has what's called a Rim Blow..." Wizard! I thought this was a family friendly channel!
Jay Leno is salivating over this I'm sure!
You should reach out to him via YT and see if he'll feature it on Jay's Garage. He will die laughing at that analog cruise-control!
'69 was my favorite year for the DeVilles and Broughams. I think '69 was the last year for real wood. Glad you made the 472 run.
@artoo45 The Fleetwood Brougham is my favorite Cadillac model (the Fleetwood Sixty Special is a CLOSE second, considering the Brougham evolved from it) and I've always thought the '69-'70 generation was eye-catching (I think that's in part, because it as a prelude to the '71-'76 generation's styling cues; yes, I also happen to like the '65-'68 and '71-'76 Fleetwood Brougham as well).
I wanna see it buffed up!!! Everyone enjoys a “before and after” video.
So glad this car was preserved! Though the carburetor was modernized, it's covered by the original air cleaner.
Time capsules rule! Exciting to see how things were done.
A big boat like that needs a decent fog horn sound when entering "maritime" traffic.
How about a klaxon with .."Now hear this."
Und ze pirate flag!
The stock Cadillac 4 note horn does a decent impression of a boat/ship horn.
I love them big ol Cadillacs. I've got a all original 78 Fleetwood I got from my dad. It's the car we always drove when going on vacation. I'm planning on doing the same with my family after I finish going through it. Plus he has 3 mid to late 70's Eldorados for sale.
This is a beautiful land yacht that deserves to cruise the streets of Newton!
What a beautiful car it's so quiet no rattles no squeaking amazing
I was so excited to see this done ✅😃🤗👍👍👍🙏! We had several of these in the 70’s. If I’m ever near you when I visit the states, I would love to see it 😃👍! I can easily set up a Quadra jet for you and show you how to adjust it. Did hundreds over the years. The hole in the left fender is for the factory alarm system that used a coke box like key to switch on/off. Love it 😊! Awesome work man!
You're right the q Jet is an amazing carburetor and can be hot rodded with the best of them. They performed well in modified production & super stock classes back in the day. Off road wise I don't think there's a better carb out there. With the bowl stuffer & single float they perform excellently on hard trails. We used to go to the Junkyards and get the good rods, jets, hangers and metering rods out of these big blocks for performance tuning work.
I use to rebuild the Q-jetd on all my GM cars. They were easy to rebuild and reliable.... Much prefer them over Holly's.... Holly's could be a real fire hazard... Drip and seep fuel...
Thanks for the awesome recap of this. My parents had a 69 Sedan DeVille when I growing up. They kept it 12 years and traded it for a new 82 Buick Park Ave.
Now you need to go on a cruise with ViceGripGarage!
That's so awesome that you brought it back to all original engine and got everything working like the cruise control!! Some collector will buy it and treasure it!
The Wizard changed the whole youtube scene with his finished projects, good job!!!
The Wizard finishes most of Hoovies projects when involved. Then Hoovie falls off his chair when he gets the bill.
@@MrDuncl the usual drill
Wow! That 1969 Fleetwood Brougham is a beauty! Those bladed front fenders are so majestic!
To me, the 1969 Cadillacs have the most awesome taillights. I love the 3 dimensional element to them!
I’ve loved Cadillacs since I was 5 years old. It was my aunt’s brand new 1972 Fleetwood Brougham that did it for me. I’ll never forget the aroma of all that rich red leather upholstery!
I daily drive a 1994 Eldorado. It’s quite the substantial car… at least until its Northstar’s head gasket blows! Mine has about 45,000 miles on it, so I’m hoping I still have a good bit of time before that happens!
Keep doing great stuff Car Wizard!
Nice Caddy Wizard! I think the plug in the fender is where the alarm keyhole was. I had a friend in the early 70's that had a 1969 coupe,that is where his alarm was turned on with the key.
You are right!
Old Stingrays had that too.
Your 1969 Cadillac brings back my childhood memories of my parents 1969 Cadillac Fleetwood. Very cool car.
Haha back in the day my dad told me as a rule of thumb that a working clock was the best indicator that a car would be good. Of course meant nothing but was funny.
Maybe he meant that if the owner would fix the clock he would likely fix everything else?
I absolutely love the 69 Caddy. Mine was a Sedan Deville, same 472 engine. Very powerful, the owners manual said 375 hp. When you floored it that sound was music to my ears, one thing I learned quickly was it didn't corner like the 71 Firebird I had before it. The first time I went into a corner at 60 mph like I always did in the Firebird the front tires went to screaming, and the car kept going straight ahead. Scared the crap out of me. From then on I kept the high speed driving to straight line roads. My friends made fun of it, but I loved it. We drag raced, and I usually won. They weren't laughing then. I learned quickly that while they sat on the starting line roasting the rear tires off, I was already half way through the quarter before they started rolling good. Lots of fun and good memories.
A car horn is essential for safety that must be repaired. I believe the MPG on that vehicle is 8 to 9 miles a gallon
Exactly that should be a priority. In most places it would fail the safety test to make the car legal to drive on the road.
Not every state has to have an inspection.
@chris younts 8.8 mpg. If planning to drive it on a regular basis you will need a part time job just for the gas. Lol
My 1970 472 Cadillac sedan deville
got 11 mpg
@@caseybhargraves3696 it doesn't pass my inspection. The horn is used for defensive driving. Can't count how many times I used the horn to prevent a accident.
Back in the day, radiators and heater cores were made with copper tubing and brass tanks soldered together. They could be boiled out, rodded clear and resoldered if necessary. Now it’s all all aluminum cores and plastic tanks glued together which is why when they get clogged or start to leak it’s take the old part out and replace it with a new one. Yes, I’m a curmudgeonly retired ASE master mechanic who walked to school five miles in snow uphill both ways. :-)
P.S. I recommend Leather Love leather treatment. Clean the seats with saddle soap then treat the seats twice. Let the car sit in the sun to get the interior good and hot and the seats will soak up the treatment. It’s the best leather treatment I’ve ever used.
"There's one thing missing in the grill" Anyone else thinking Bullhorns?
I’ve been driving a ‘69 Sedan de Ville for 30 years (it used to be my aunt’s since new) and always had a hard time starting it first thing in the morning. Your suggestion of not running 87 octane was a game changer; I filled it up with premium and it starts almost immediately! Thank you 🙏 👍
Ha!! Those clocks didn't work more than a year when new. There are places that will replace the wind-up mechanism with a quartz drive.
That is interesting about ethanol and carbs. Never would of thought that was a problem.
Also dries out seals too
I’m quite happy that you’ve finished the “Slowhaughm” (sp?) so beautifully. I send you and yours my best wishes. Mrs. Car Wizard rocks as well. For she is your support. Yet my favorite Caddy is a 1971 Eldorado convertible. I have one in in sight in Louisiana? Best agin, Jeff.
In the top 3 of the road cars I've ever owned [I am 67] was my 1968 Fleetwood Brougham. EIGHT electric side windows, including the little vent windows , front and rear. Air ride, cruise control, the foot rests you mentioned, automatic air conditioning, AM/FM stereo radio, power EVERYthing! I bought it from my father, who bought it new. Cost right around $7K, as I recall. Had a 375 HP 472 CID engine which made 525 lbs ft torque. It was the biggest V-8 gas engine produced for a car, at the time. Got pretty good fuel mileage, too! Depending on how it was driven and the terrain, I got as much as 17 MPG out of the car. Put many, many miles on it. The car was stolen from me - never recovered or seen again. Otherwise, I'd probably still have it.
A few points of order: it is a transducer, that which makes the cruise control function. "Dieseling," or "run on," is more the fault of too fast an engine idle RPM, than that of octane level. The hole in the fender is more likely where a key switch for an aftermarket alarm system was, at some point. That car NEEDS white stripe tires.
Well presented and explained video. Nice car. Keep the videos coming!
Congrats, Wizard!! Nice to see this on the road. Too bad GM squandered the opportunity to be a world leader. This car is still from the era when Cadillac was still the "standard of the world".
Impslap The Escalade has no equal. Modern Cadillacs are world class.
Brian 🤣
Beautiful Caddy Wizard! Back when Cadillac was still truly the standard of the world. If I had a 4 car garage with one more space I'd seriously consider buying it from you. I take it the automatic leveling suspension still works as well. No sagging and you never mentioned any issues.
The first car with cruise was a 1958 Chrysler. The 1959 Cadillacs were the first Cadillacs with available cruise control option. Available on the Eldorado Biarritz and Fleetwood.
Younger people have no idea how expensive and rare the cruise control option was, even on Cadillacs, until the 1980s. VERY desirable and rare option on 1960s Cadillacs. It was still revolutionary, high technology then.
Lap and shoulder seatbelts became federally mandatory safety equipment on all cars in 1967. The first few years the shoulder straps were separate because at the time car companies had been building cars with lap belts only. When the shoulder belts became mandatory the separate belt was the only way they could meet the code before they developed the integrated 3 point single belt with retractor in the 1970s we use today.
Big fan here from Denmark - keep it up Wizard!
Bow chicka wow wowwww!
Hello Denmark!!!
Beautiful car! I love the Fleetwood, best proportions of the 69s, IMO. I think it's great you decided to save the old 472. 68 might be my favorite, because of its beautiful face: the vertically stacked headlights, fine spaced grill bars, grill shorter at the sides, and massive hood coming to a sharp point in the middle, it just had so much character.
*Vice Grip Garage has entered the chat*
VGG: Well I'll be dipped...
Haha spot on 😆 Too shiny for a guy doe
@@rosen9425 true.. not enough weight reduction for a guy...
How would a guy tolerate having brakes in a vehicle
I don't know...
Now help me understand....
In 1969 my father bought a 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham for my mother. That was a nice car back then. That was the first car that we had that had air conditioning. Real wood panels on the doors, not cheap imitation plastic. Footrests in the back of the front seat. 2 fold down bars in the back. The stereo soumded really nice compared to the am radio in my fathers car.
As a young boy I remember having to help my father change a bulb in the taillight. Dad couldn't get his hand in, but I could easily get my arm in and get the job done.
Automotive RUclipsrs: Look at all these artifacts like QuadraJets, engine analyzers and glass headlights, aren't they weird?
Me: Oh lordy I must be old now.
@chris younts Safety regulations for pedestrians. Even though Volvo kept using glass headlights on its cars until the mid 2000s.
Shouldn't just sand plastic headlights, though. Need to rough sand and apply clear coat. They start to go bad because the original clear coat wears.
An hour ago I was just using an inductive timing light and a tach/dewell meter to set the idle, points, and ignition timing on my 1976 Triumph Spitfire. I'm 37, some of the old skills aren't completely lost yet. Once I get some fresh gas in the car I'll be breaking out my vacuum gauges to properly tune the engine.
@chris yountsAs a result of a different comment about classic cars of the future I was looking around the car park at work. A colleague has a 1999 Mercedes and the headlights are almost opaque. A 2004 Honda wasn't much better. What will 21st century cars be like in fifty years time, and will anyone be able to get spares?
@@MrDuncl They will be recycled several times by then.
@chris younts Maybe one day. I haven't had any issues with the points ignition, yet, even in 100+ Oklahoma heat.
Hey Car Wizard, I'm 58 and remember those land yachts as a kid. My Dad had a '67 Ford LTD. Very similar. It had a 390 in it. The power steering was insanely light and made driving on So Cal Freeways 'exciting'. But it had front power disk brakes. A fly landing on the pedal could stop the car dead in it's track at any speed. I learned to drive in that thing. Learn to parallel park like a pro. I can parallel park a battleship if I needed to ;)
Wizard, that hole might have been
for a car alarm, those small round
shape security keys? I remember
those my Dad had that.
That was my thought as well.
My 1982 Eldorado had that alarm system. When I was really young, my grandmother had a Ford Fairmont that had that system too. Why on earth would anyone think a Fairmont would need a security system is beyond me.
That is exactly like my Dad's '69 Cad Fleetwood except his was green. Me, my brother and sister took our driving tests in it. We had to parallel that big 'ol boat. Loved that car.
Awesome job on a magnificent car. The only thing that’s missing is white walls!
Skinny whitewalls would look nice!
Mr. WIZARD, this video brought back great memories. I remember looking at the new '69S at the local Cadillac/Olds dealer. I still have the large '69 sales brochure I got that day. There was nothing like the wonderful smell of a new Cadillac interior!!!
“...in the city.” And you can’t see anything but grass & trees. 🤣 That’s my kind of city!
My favorite Caddy is the 1969 convertible. I own one and LOVE it! Good job fixing your Cadillac. I hope you consider throwing some whitewalls on it.
"We're in the city."
Ummm....
You guys have my Sorento in your shop waiting to be worked on, I just learned you are a RUclipsd and am beyond excited to hear this. Watching your content makes me feel like it’s in the best of hands
Imagine run this beautiful Cadillac in Brazil where standard gasoline has 27.5% of ethanol and premium has 25% and one gallon costs around 5 dollars... carburetors would love our mix of petrol and sugar cane juice
That’s insane, it’s 10% over here in the Netherlands. Hate it.
I live in Colombia and it's got ethanol too. Not like Brazil but still sucks.
The only thing good about ethanol is high octane if you get E85.
@@PedroDelPivo 10% usually in the US as well.
I had this exact car in the exact color scheme. I drove it to high school every other day as it was my dad's spare. I loved it but didn't use it much in the later years. It remained on the driveway and began to grow bushes from the wiper enclosures and we had it towed away and junked in about 1980. The car we had was a lemon from day one but I was a kid and loved driving it.
You don't just spend time driving the Cadillac, you spend time yachting the Brougham!!
Bravo Car Wizard for keeping this car stock. A rolling piece of history. Well done.
That Sears/Penske "analyzer" is from the late 60s to the mid 70s.
Period-correct then.
One of my dream cars, I really hope that this car has lots of road years ahead
Please fix the horn and clock, it would make for interesting content and information. Plus the Caddy would then be perfect.
Amen! My grandad had a `69 coup Deville with the 472. Front wheel drive. That thing was massive! Thanks for keeping that Caddi alive!
You need a boating license to drive that...
One might say it's a boatmobile
and a captains licence.
Land Yacht.
You think this car’s big, you should see a fleet wood 75 limousine. It drove like it was on a bath of oil. It was big and black, and I knew this car came from greatness.
& yachts &yachts of gas
Wizard- Nice to see your Caddy back on the road. It looks great, and I know you're proud of it, as you should be. Pro Tip: Put whitewall tires on it. It will transform the car and make it look more period correct.
The seat belt above you is for the driver and front passenger. I had a couple of 1970 Cutlass and they were the same. When you were driving you were not wearing your seat belt properly. You have 2 of them.
Correct. 3-point belts were not required in 1969. The shoulder belts along the headliner had a stud on it that hooked into the lap belt latch tang. They were a PITA because they did not retract or self-adjust. By 1974/1975, there were 3-point belts with a retractor/tensioner reel generally in the ceiling.
Steve Varholy The ones with the tang that hooked to the lap belt came later. In GM’s of this era, there were two additional buckles on the front seat for the shoulder belts. I remember cleaning my Dad’s ‘70, and the mess of belts and buckles on the front seat: Three lap belt buckles, a strap for the center passenger, and two additional buckles for the shoulder belts.
@@DavidBugea I had assumed the awkward mess they had used in 1973 was the original system because it couldn't be any more cumbersome. Obviously, not.
I didn't know Car Wizard liked Cadillacs. Right on! I got a 66 Fleetwood Brougham in similar shape (no cracked dash, headliner intact, etc) and love it.
I'm still looking for the city! Lol
All original Cadillac?
You have my 100% approval and much respect for your dedication to a classic.
Wasn't that the old joke, "Cadillac's don't need brakes, just loud horns!" Lol
My Eldorado has 3 horns in one, when I use it people wake up and pay attention. Rice-rockets have 1 little squeaky horn that sounds hilarious, nothing that conveys "watch out" or "pay attention". A small dog makes a louder noise.
My Fleetwood had a stupid loud horn. I don't know if it was a 3 tone, but it was pretty easily twice as loud as a modern car. I should have saved the horn when I sold the car.
@@TheBrokenLife you must check out the grosser mercedes with its bloody loud horn.
@@ammarokla7217 I've actually installed air horns on my vehicles in the past because people don't hear the stock ones... I should do more of that. Fun for everybody!
Cadillac had the best sounding horn ever. Like a tugboat.
The clock is usually very easy to fix. There are points, kind of like in a distributor. When they make contact, they get pushed away from eachother and tightens a spring. As the clock ticks away, the points gets closer, meets and the procedure starts again. Those points will get covered in soot over time, due to the tiny spark that occurs when they meet. Clean it out with sandpaper or nail-file and it will start to work again.
Had a 69 Volvo 121 Amazon wagon as my first car. 70 Cadillac DeVille convertible as my second. Quite an upgrade :D
I owned a 1969 ...loved it, my future wife hated it.
I would've divorced that woman. How can anyone not love this beautiful automobile?
@@artcamera5514 I Know! She thought it looked like a cigarette box. It was maroon with a chocolate vinyl top and chocolate interior. She had me get a VW Bug and a 5 series BMW 😟...hated both of them.
@@jamesellison7982 VW Bug????? Did she think she married a gay guy?
@@artcamera5514 I just finished my pipeline training and was assigned to McCord AFB, her brother gave it to me...her Dad was a Korean Crew Chief... that's another story. If you want a happy life make her a happy wife 😁.
@@jamesellison7982 The sacrifices we make to keep our women happy......🤦♂️🤷♂️
Wizard, you’re an awesome mechanic. But, for the rim blow wheel, you pinch the inner, flexible portion of the wheel vs tapping the top side. Awesome job!
"For as long as I could remember, I always wanted to be a gangster"
Well you might want the Lincoln as those have a drain in the trunk, in case you're "cargo" accidentally sprung a leak... or two ♨😎♨
Wizard... love the video. Rim-blow is on the inner side of the steering wheel rim.. you were pushing on the out diameter. There is a vinyl insert on the inner part of rim... push that. The woodgrain was just decorative. The car needs white wall tires. bad... it looks naked without whitewalls. Our family had lots of "rim-blows"... a 1970 Dart Swinger, a 1970 Lincoln Mark III (super nice car)... As a side note, I agree about the fuel comments you made. I live north of Detroit, and there is NO alcohol-free fuel around here. Everything is 10% ethanol. The Caddy is beautiful!
Wizard: “Lets see if the radio works.”
**Menards ad*
Wizard: “Yep, it works.”
Me: “Debatable.”
That's a beautiful old ride. The belt on the roof is a shoulder belt. That shoulder belt and the lap belt saved my life when my 17-yo self decided to see how fast I could get my dad's 225 slant-six '67 Valiant going. I lost control, hit 3 trees and wound up upside down soaked in gasoline.
I would definitely convert the Brakes to disc brakes!
Properly maintained and adjusted drum brakes can be perfectly fine if you don't over drive the car. Often is the case when a disk brake conversion is done, the drum parts that are coming off are well beyond their useful service life and that's why there is such a spectacular improvement.
Disc brakes were a factory option. They were even available on the base 69 Nova.
Front disc brakes were standard equipment on Lincoln in 1965.
1:00..."We're moving a big boat into the shipping lane here" (LOL) And upon your return to port, you moor it. You have one spectacular Cadillacular specimen there! Congratulations on your 11th hour decision not to abominate it into an unoriginal diesel, but to instead fix up the original 472 gas engine and reinstall that!
I had a '69 Fleetwood Brougham in 1985, a green one that had 93k on it when I bought it. It had the 472, working CC (had to set it 10 mph faster than desired), working AC (til the fan quit), working AM/FM/8 Track, no leather, but it did have tilt and telescopic steering, and a working self-closing trunk door. And the trunk was big enough to put 5 bodies in.
I got it to pal around on weekends with a Cadillac loving friend. I always loved the chandelier ("lantern") taillights on '69 Cadillacs. That's why I got a '69! The worst thing I could say about it was the fading paint, a hesitant starter, and the fan quit working. I sold it later that year after only putting on 3k miles since I broke up with my friend. It went to a good home as the new owner was a mechanic who could certainly fix the fan and the starter hesitation. He got more enjoyment out of the "mafia machine" than I did as he had put on 20k miles when I spoke to him about it a year of so after I sold it to him.
Dont let Hoovie drive it........ or your daughter
@pizzamon 79 Ideally, don't let ANYBODY else drive it. Not everybody will treat your car with the same care as yourself!
It's great to not only see it fixed up and running and riding so well, but that you left the original engine in it. That big block Cadillac engine is the way that thing should be motivated, especially considering it was before any malaise era garbage. My only personal issue is the lack of whitewall tires; it's odd to see an enormous luxury car of that era without them as the thick black sidewall is just not as elegant. Great work overall, though, keeping a car like this in shape for many more years of enjoyment.
Good thing fuel prices are low :-)
He probably used a couple of gallons when he floored it at the beginning...
Gets better mileage than today's pickup trucks!!
@@bryancarlson3673 Certainly better than those giant SUVs.
These things can hardly do 15mpg on the highway, and that's very generous
@@pleepler oh they do much better than that!!
You should install a phenolic carb plate between the intake and the carb,it will insulate it from heat.
You wouldn't have boiling problem anymore.
I have a car with a carb and i use gas with ethanol without problems in trafic or hot weather.
What happened to going with fuel injection Wizard? You were pretty adamant about not putting a carb on this engine.
GM’s during that period had a separate shoulder belt in clips on the ceiling. They go into buckles identical to the lap belts.
Cool
2:53 Good thing that stop sign magically disappeared. Otherwise you might have broken the law by blasting past it.
He clearly stopped lol
Nice Cadillac car wizard! My first Caddy is a 2012 CTS Wagon and I am loving it. Love to see these videos and learn about the brand's rich history and beginnings
no your project isn't over....you gotta fix that clock, and that horn....now get back in there
I am SO Very glad you put the original engine back in her.
She looks awesome CW