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Posted: Jan 18, 2015 - 2:17pm
buzz wrote: is that a banana on your chassis or are you just happy to see me? When was the last time someone was happy to see you?

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Location: up the boohai

Posted: Jan 18, 2015 - 1:44pm
DaveInVA wrote: is that a banana on your chassis or are you just happy to see me?

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Posted: Jan 18, 2015 - 1:25pm

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Posted: Jan 6, 2015 - 9:20pm
Oakland's new mayor, Libby Schaaf:

DaveInSaoMiguel

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Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA
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Posted: Dec 30, 2014 - 4:19pm

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 5:02pm

haresfur wrote:

I'm partial to 1956 and 1960.

I had a '56 Coupe DeVille, (2) Eldo Biarritz Convertibles dual quads, a Eldo Seville stainless hardtop and a Fleecewood. A '59 Couple DeVille and a '60 Fleecewood with 20k miles. Never paid more than $750 for one of them. Try doing that now. In fact those Eldos goes for just a tad bit more than that now.
I got a ticket for doing 126 in the 46 Caddy. I told the cop I didn't know I was going that fast because the speedo only went to 115.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 4:55pm

DaveInVA wrote:

I used to really be into old Caddy's. This is my 46 -60S baby limo. It was one of 3 short chassis limos with divider windows (the rest were 75 series based on the 1941 styling) The 3 were serial number 49,50 and 51 and mine was the 49. The picture was taken from the roof of my '59 Crap DeVille in 1971. And yep thats me as a long hair hippy freak. Back then i owned at least one of every model year Caddy from 1935 to 1964. We did a lot of horse trading in the Lake Michigan Cadillac LaSalle club back then.

I'm partial to 1956 and 1960.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 4:53pm

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 4:29pm
Red_Dragon wrote: Wonder how much weight that added. Seems like a bit of a sad thing to do to a '49 Caddy. Maybe they could have used the body panels as molds to make fiberglass replacements and embed the pennies in fiberglass/epoxy. That would save weight and you could always go back to the original body. That being said, it does look pretty sharp.

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan

Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 11:21am

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 10:37am
Red_Dragon wrote: I've got one those. Grrreat on a date! Here is the view from inside. It is a challenge to drive after a couple drinks, though.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 10:17am
DaveInVA wrote: Those stakes were on the 75 series Fleecewoods.... You're right, I was thinking they had the more open 'jet intake' ones, but looking at google, it seems like that was the standard across all the '58s.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 10:13am

Red_Dragon wrote:

That would the conning tower, mate. Tanks have turrets.

tur•ret (ËtÉr Éªt, ËtÊr-)

n.

1. a small tower, usu. one forming part of a larger structure.

2. a small tower at an angle of a building, as of a castle or fortress, frequently beginning some distance above the ground.

3. a domelike structure, usu. revolving horizontally, in which a gun is mounted, as on an armored vehicle, ship, or aircraft.
A conning on a sub would need to be watertight. For a warship it would have to be armed - then it could still be a turret. Of course I think any reasonable person would be fine defining that thing as a boat so I'm good with either.

And yes, I would drive it.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 10:08am
islander wrote: Definitely. I think the chrome strakes on the back door are from an earlier series 62 though. And I think the Turret is probably not GM at all. Those stakes were on the 75 series Fleecewoods and on some 62 series cars from '58.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 10:02am
islander wrote: Definitely. I think the chrome strakes on the back door are from an earlier series 62 though. And I think the Turret is probably not GM at all. That would the conning tower, mate. Tanks have turrets.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 9:52am
Prodigal_SOB wrote: I think I would have gone with yellow but that's just me. I agree completely.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 9:49am
islander wrote: Definitely. I think the chrome strakes on the back door are from an earlier series 62 though. And I think the Turret is probably not GM at all. Yeah, I think that turret is from either a Studebaker or a Citroën.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 9:47am
DaveInVA wrote: Well, it used to be a 1958 Caddy Lack Fleecewood Definitely. I think the chrome strakes on the back door are from an earlier series 62 though. And I think the Turret is probably not GM at all.

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Posted: Dec 14, 2014 - 9:42am
Red_Dragon wrote: I think I would have gone with yellow but that's just me.

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