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Now that's funny..my twin brother and I shared a 80 ford fiesta, oxidized burnt orange, named it "the pumpkin", when we upgraded, sold it to a friend who painted it white with flames "the flaming marshmallow"
I bought a 82 cadillac Eldorado about 3 years ago and now I'm almost down fuller restoring it and I absolutely love it... I love it way more than my new Infiniti...
He also just made a video about why mechanics love to drive land yachts. He’s probably already bought it/bartered for it with Hoovie and needs to pretend that he hasn’t.
My wife and I used to get high driving my mom's new 1973 Sedan Deville. My mom read the dealers option book. She customized the interior, exterior, and roof. My wife and I were eighteen. We had such a good time driving that Cadillac. In 1968, I was thirteen. My mom got a Honking Sedan Deville. I had no girl friends. I used to sneak it out of the garage. It is hard to believe how spectacular it was to drive it around the block!
Did a double take when I saw the original selling dealer nameplate on the trunk of the Caddy as well as the original license plate frame the car was sold with. O'Keeffe Cadillac right here in Westport, Connecticut. My buddy was the parts manager there for about ten years. The recession hit them hard and they went under about ten years ago. I wonder if I know the original owner ?
Damn you ain’t lyin, my mom drove a 91 caddy fleetwood growing up. In the summers here in Florida that damn buckle would blister your ass if it caught you lacking wearing shorts lmao 😂
*I love your videos man but if you think you bought the worst Corvette ever you haven’t seen my latest videos of swamp thing from Florida sat in a swamp for 14 years with no top and has produced two geckos since arriving at my shop lol*
I clicked just to say this.... Plus well you know there was a period of time when a certain garage of _hooligans_ strip the Corvette down to the frame and made a go-kart out of it... During the time it was chopped to bits and before the rebuild that was also in bad shape.
Great pair of GM cars! I can offer something surprising about the technology used: Those lights you see on the front fenders and above the rear window inside are actually not lights. They're lamp monitors, quite common on Cadillacs built in the 70s and 80s. They were pioneered by Chevrolet in the 60s. On your car, a piece of fiber optic cable runs to each lamp assembly, passing light from the high/low beams up front and turn signals/parking lights front and rear. What brings us high speed internet today was tasked back then with protecting the Cadillac owner from a post-19th hole DUI due to poor judgement and a burned out bulb.
Came to say this, optical cable/glass fiber from the bulb location to that indicator. If the bulb goes out, do does that ... Had them on my 87 Oldsmobile Nintey-Eight Regency Brougham ( got it when Grandpa passed) That interior is SOOOOO familiar to me.... Before the 87, Grandpa had a '77 Olds Nintey-Eight. With most of that same interior, but powder blue velour, instead of Leather. When he traded the 77 on 87, the body was rusted out, but even with 250k miles, the salesman wanted that Olds 400 for his boat....
Welcome to the Cadillac family! I have an 88 Brougham and a 93 Fleetwood Brougham - love them both...the bumper fillers are easy to find - throw some Vogues on after the repaint and that car will be perfect! Unfortunately the switches aren't metal but chrome plated plastic. The seat controls on my 88 are starting to peel. And if you need the owners manual for the 87, I have one I'll send you
Ohh that Cadillac has my heart! I absolutely LOVE these old Broughams and I hope to own one some day! I have a 2016 XTS that is great, but they don’t make them today like they did back then!
Yes, no LEDs except in the radio display. The fiber optics allowed you to actually see light (or none) from the individual bulbs. The ones above the rear window can be read at a glance from the rear view mirror, and are more intense when braking or signalling, as long as both filaments in the 1157s are working. The front fender pods had three lenses each, Amber for the parking lights, clear for low beams, and blue for high beams.
My parent's 60s-80s Airstream trailers had a similar fiber optic pod on the driver's side. You could check the trailer's taillights by looking at them in the door mirror. Again no LEDs or similar - you were viewing light from the actual bulbs. Among the many DeVilles I owned back then, the '77 actually had the Wonder Bar-type mechanical signal search, not even the vacuum fluorescent numerals. Thanks for the correction!
I had an 85 Vette with the TPI (Tuned Port Fuel Injection) and it was a lot of fun! If I recall correctly from over 30 years ago the specs were 240 HP, 0-60 in 5.7 and 1/4 in 14.1. 16" wheels were huge for the time with the Goodyear 255 VR50 16 Gatorbacks ($332 Cdn list each at the time). Brake fade was very scary at high speeds. Good times though! King of the hill (back then), the 1990 ZR1 (380 HP?) did 0-60 in 4.7 which was insane in those times! HP specs seemed very underrated.
Great video. I grew up with a 1991 Cadillac Fleetwood which may have been the last year of this body style. Love that car! Watching this video brought back some great memories. Thanks Hoovie!
@@mexicanspec What about the fiber optic lights for the brake lights? When did they start? I know GM started using fiber optics in the fifties, but I don't remember the first use.
@@robertlee9395 Actually I think they started with the 1976 Seville. It may have been a little earlier. I can't remember if any of my '70s cars had them.
Hey, Hoovie! Love your videos! By the way, the "LEDS" you mentioned on the fenders and rear headliner of the Cadillac are actually fiber optics. If you pull the taillights, you can actually see the plastic fiber lead. My '73 Coupe had the same thing! LOVED that car!
I love the look of this era, specifically the Fleetwood and Town Car. The Fleetwoods silhouette, large sleek grill, and cavernous and simple interior, a car at the end of an era. Great buy!
Growing up my Great aunt who lived next door got hand-me-down Cadillac fleetwoods from her brother in law every other year. The last one I remember was a 1990 fleetwood brougham de-elegance ..Brown on Brown , leather button tuffed seats. She had that car untill 1998. My brother and I would play in the back seat , tag through the car, hide and seek. It seemed huge. I still remember the day the tow truck came to take it away after sometime went wrong . One day I'll own a car like this. Have my first kid on the way so that will have to wait. Beautiful find, good job Hoovie.
I find it funny the way you're talking about the digital gauges and how you love them so much.. I use to have a 1988 RS Cavalier and it had digital gauges all but the tach (which was good because digital gauges of the era were "laggy") that you would have loved...LoL..... It was just a fun old beater with a heater... It was highly optioned for the time, everything from the cassette player to the factory sway bars... Oh, and it also had that AWESOME blue interior!! I actually loved that interior (Yeah Yeah Yeah....SHUT UP!!!! lol)
I love that Cadillac. Years ago, I had an 87 Brougham exactly like that one, mine was brown with tan leather. The Olds 307 (5.0) is pretty reliable, but pretty anemic for a car that size. Still an awesome car. I Finally got back into a Caddy with a 71 Sedan Deville I got in early 2019, and a ATS-V 6 speed manual I got the end of 2019. I love them both. Two completely different driving experiences, but they're awesome at what they they were built for.
A neat thing about those little indicators. Those are actually fiber optic lines from their respective lights. Also, one of the lights should be an indicator for cruise control.
As soon as I saw the dealer sticker on the back of that Cadillac I knew it came from my hometown as immediately recognized the dealer logo. O’keefe Cadillac of Westport CT. Amazing it made it’s way to Kansas! What a treat to see,
For the Brougham - not LED in the front fenders or rear headliner for the turn signal/headlight indication/stop light - it is fiber optics! Also the sail panels/C pillars use 120VAC powered fluorescent lights. In the trunk you'll find a wire harness with yellow tape wrapped around it cautioning about the higher voltage.
While I've never wrenched on a C4 with the cross fire injection, the Corvette forums have very detailed posts on how to diagnose just about anything with the cross fire injection, and the fix. Granted theory doesn't always translate to real world results. But it's surprising that two shops couldn't get it working.
@@bluerazor7049 it was definitely titled.. an older gentleman sold it to them and was horrified and upset when he found out what was about to happen to it..
I had an 83 trans am with the cross fire fuel injection. I don't recall it being complicated at all. I recall it essentially being dual tbi set up. In the end, it's a small black chevy. It'd be easy to convert it to a carb.
I love the styling and 2-tone color combos on those C4 Vettes, they were your opponents on the 2nd track in Rad Racer for NES! It seriously will be cheaper & a better option just to swap out the Crossfire fuely for something more modern, maintainable & a lot more powerful. Love that blue interior too...get that stuff restored.
