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I just picked up a 2001 deVille, and I may have bitten off more than I thought (someone may have scrubbed clean through my clearcoat) . . . whereas I know how much I've bitten off on the 2001 Eldorado convertible. (And the van is a lost cause, ready to be sacrificed as a college car for my twins, and the sooner my other daughter's Pt cruiser dies, the better. The Miata will wait a few years for a new engine).

Anyway, I'm a bankruptcy lawyer and displaced Economics professor (started to late to pay for my own kids' college that way . . .)
 
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I'm a Caddy fan too but I trend towards the ones with big fins....

This is one of the cream puffs I used to own....

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Oooh . . .

I like the big fins, caddie and otherwise, but 70-72 is my notion of the zenith of the american car.

I thought I was actually going to get this one running today, but crawling under cars isn't the same as it used to be . . .

A couple of owners previous had some, umm, "interesting" ideas. The starter wire was attached to the wrong post, but happened to have another wire shorting it to the right post, so it started until that fell off (*that* took a couple of days to figure out!), the spark was wired in an apparently random order, vacuum lines terminated with wood screws . . .

I finally have the carb reattached, and the starter kicked a few times today, but needs a fresh back and arms to reach up and reattach. And then, I think, it will be back on the road.

The interior, paint, and roof, though, are all probably far past detailing, but the clearcoat may have saved enough paint that I don't have to go to metal . . .

hawk
 
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