Faults:

Brakes, transmission, ac, radio... all the expected stuff from such an old car.

General Comments:

I loved this car. Bought it brand new in 1979, I was much younger then. I remember showing off in it and spending days and nights waxing it and making it look in top condition. Then, many years later I grew tired of it, put it in my garage and bought new cars. It sat in my garage until two years ago, when I decided I'd try using it again. Then I fixed it up and fell in love with it again. In fact, I decided to sell my other cars, a Dodge Monaco and an Oldsmobile Ciera. MY Caddy was my pride and joy.

Last week, I left it out overnight and some teenagers came and burned it. Just like that, my Caddy was gone. Cadillacs are cars you can become best friends with, they are big American sedans. My Caddy could've survived another ten years had it not met such a cruel death.

Faults:

The Caddy wasn't in great shape when I bought it (note the beginning mileage), but it served me well with my delivery job. It ate gas like there was no tomorrow but I loved the huge engine and the horses it yielded.

The shocks and struts were bad when I first got it and I never got them replaced (wasn't making as much $$ then) so I had to live with the -bouncy-

-bouncy- -bouncy- ride.

I've had several things replaced in the car, tranny line, master cylinder, tires tires tires tires tires, radiator, battery (battery in the car when I got it wasn't even putting out enough cold cranking power) and transmission gasket.

Not too bad I think for the amount of mileage the car had on it.

General Comments:

This car was bought for 500 bucks at a local small car dealership. I remember seeing the car sitting there when it was 1,000 dollars. The price kept going down as the car kept sitting there. At 500 I went in and nabbed it.

I really love older, large cars with big engines.

I was way into old muscle cars of the 60s-70s and always thought of Cadillacs as "old guys'" cars. But when I saw mine sitting at the dealer, I was like "Well hey, why not? It's huge and has a huge engine.. I'll give it a shot".

I would definitely buy another Caddy of a near year and model again. The only drawback of it (and I guess all rear wheel drive cars) is that they totally cannot get around in the snow..! I'm in Massachusetts and when it snowed out while I had the Caddy, I was afraid to go to work a lot of the time. And the times I was out in it, the car would get stuck anywhere that had the slightest uphill climb.

I have a front wheel drive car now, and they HUGELY different in the snowy weather!

But I do miss having a big boat Caddy..........:(

Melissa