Classic Limousine Service - by C&G

[Drew Dowdell]

Rules:

1. Must be $60k or less.

2. Must be "unique" in some way without being tacky. i.e. no Towncars turned into Bentleys, no 300c given "jet doors".

3. B-Bodies acceptable for routine service if cheap and in great shape.

4. Older than 1990 preferred unless very unique or of an interesting premium brand.

1937 Buick 90 Limousine

1965 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine

1969 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow with Chevy 350

1954 Packard Limo

[Sixty8panther]

I submit to you....

a 1969 Fleetwood post.

http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/car/773871988.html

$ 3000 or best offer. 69 caddy for sale. 472 motor.

has new suspension and tires, new rear floor pan.

new windshield professionally installed.car is solid

and runs good i brought it up from florida it only

has 55,000 original miles has an exhaust leak-

could use a whole exhaust system and interior.

need to sell baby on the way. please call if any

questions call Chris 978 420 6211.

$3000. How's that for going under budget?

[Sixty8panther]

I've never heard of a Cadillac FREEWOOD...

this is the ENTIRE desription:

BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC EXCELLENTE CONDITIONS PERFRECT INTERIOR

66635 miles

This dope has 4 photos of his '62 Caddy...not one

showing the selling point of the car: the tailfins!

Obviously he knows more about micrscopic life on

Mars than he does about this Cadillac.

http://miami.craigslist.org/mdc/car/751613091.html

[XP715]

Oldsmoboi:

You clown! I would have GIVEN you my '74 Continental Town Car limousine when I had to get rid of it if you're at all serious about starting a linousine service! You could have restored it five times with 60K.

Edited July 29, 2008 by XP715

[Drew Dowdell]

Well, the idea was to build a fleet of these old beasts. I don't have the money/time to do this right now anyway, this is mostly just open dreaming. I would have taken you up on the Lincoln though.

Edit: It's what I plan to do in a few years once I'm back from Germany.

[Sixty8panther]

1968 Chrysler Imperial - $6000 (Enid,OK)

1968 Chrysler Imperial, one owner 47000 miles. Gold exterior, Bronze Leather interior, 440 cubic inch V8, auto transmission, AM/FM radio, Air, cruise, pdl,pwr seats, ps, tinted glass. Excellent condition.

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/car/744938138.html

Not a fan of the goold but i think Cadillac's "white diamond" (pearl white) would look great!

[Drew Dowdell]

68, that's nice, but not a limo.

[Sixty8panther]

ok... so this one needs a complete restoration, but it would SO be worth it.

1949 Cadillac 75 Series Imperial Limo - $4750 (Poolville, PA)

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Engine needs repair. Complete restoration project car. For more info email [email protected]

[A Horse With No Name]

We have alocal Limo service that has one of the actual Rolls limo's used in Scarface, I think.

One of these days I'm gonna rent the thing, and double date with my son Joel. I think it would be fun.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

ok... so this one needs a complete restoration, but it would SO be worth it.

Yes it would.

Chris

[Sixty8panther]

In Montana:

http://montana.craigslist.org/car/747492512.html

1957 CADILLAC 4DOOR HARD TOP - $6500 (MISSOULA)

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Reply to: see below

Date: 2008-07-09, 8:39AM MDT

1957 CADILLAC 4 DOOR HARD TOP, VERY CLEAN, HAVE ORIGINAL MOTOR/TRANS, BUT OUT OF THE CAR. CALL FOR INFO . B.L. 406-531-5353

[Sixty8panther]

Oh... well to supplement the silly-super-stretched stauf most

places here have a few regular sedans or Town Car L-s for

airport runs and such, that's what I drove most of the time

at my last job.... just a clean, green TownCar.

[Intrepidation]

Got your limo right here:

http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/car/772835407.html

This thing has been on craigslist forever.

[A Horse With No Name]

In Montana:

http://montana.craigslist.org/car/747492512.html

This car would be VERY worth preserving. Kind of wish this was in Ohio...

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

Got your limo right here:

http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/car/772835407.html

This thing has been on craigslist forever.

I've never seen one of those made into a limo.

Chris

[Drew Dowdell]

Got your limo right here:

http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/car/772835407.html

This thing has been on craigslist forever.

Those things are hideous! I can see why it hasn't sold

[Sixty8panther]

Well in that case, here's some worthy examples (not for sale per se)

ragtop limo! Aiii-ght!

Good thing this next one is a '64, not a big '64 fan so I'm okay with it being cut up.

(looks around cautiously to see if Balthazar is around)

not very impressive but worth including:

Hey look, a '65 Cadillac what has a windshield

interchangable with my '59 Buicks' (seriously)

my favorite post-war limo from this entire thread:

[Intrepidation]

Those things are hideous! I can see why it hasn't sold

I agree.

[Sixty8panther]

SEXY, long, elegant... perfect.

Oh, Dodgefan: didn't I ever TELL you that's "Diesel Dave's"

1963 Chrysler Limo sitting in the woods, rotting slowly?

He's a fruity nutcase who owns a bunch of $h!pile rusted cars,

some awesome some useless even if they WERE restored.

He had a diesel I6 out of a '84 Datsun Maxima that I would have

loved to buy and drop in my Datsun, had it not been sitting in the

woods in the dirt for 5 years... but it's okay, there was an old

scummy truck cap over it.

He also owns a bunch of Yugos, one a convertible sitting in the

back of a box van, ha also has many more $h!pile European

city cars from the dark days, one such fruity french car is

sitting INSIDE a Suburban shell. Litterally.

About a half dozen Amphicars litter his prperty as well as an

awesome Flxible tour bus wiht the glass ceiling...

His daiy drivers are a bunch of diesel $h!boxes he rotates,

a Chevette diesel, a couple Peugeots, BMWs, Volovos, you

name a F***ed up diesel car he OWNS it, most of them not

running. He also lays claim to a Volvo 240 wagon that is

sitting in a shallow riverbed 1/4 mile away from his house

in the woods of NH, I bought some parts off that car for a

friend with a '89 240 sedan.

That's another LOOONg story.

Last time I saw it was about two years ago, at his "property"

He does own a caddy bustleback diesel but it's been sitting

in the woods for about a decade, with one of the windows

down. Once, XP & I walked his property when there was like

27" of snow on the ground.

The only car he owns I'd pay good money for would be the

'60 Eldorado 2dr hardtop that is sitting under a tarp stretched

from two funky buses in his back yard.

[Sixty8panther]

Anyway that '40 Cadillac is for sale, & EXACTLY within the $60,000 budget.

http://www.gatewayclassiccars.com/displayc...mp;location=STL

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P.S. Diesel Dave owns a way cooler mopar limo...

a late '50s (1958 Chrysler IIRC) airport limo, in red.

I'll have to dig up the photos and post them for ya.

The red tail finned limo is quite impressive, & it is

parked next to a 100% complete but in need of

one or two mechanical repairs '80s Bitter.

Yup, the ultra rare German GT car.

Edited July 29, 2008 by Sixty8panther

[vonVeezelsnider]

My List of Favorites

1961-63 Imperial LeBaron

1961-64 Continental

1965, 1956, 1962, 1939-41 Cadillac

[Intrepidation]

First I've heard of this guy.

[Sixty8panther]

My List of Favorites

1961-63 Imperial LeBaron

1961-64 Continental

Agreed!

1965 Cadillac

Eh.... not impressive, if you like stacked headlight

Cadillacs the 65/66 Caddys are boring compared

to the later '67/'68, their raked noses, poinitng

forward almost like a Battleship, is way more cool!

1962 Cadillac

'62 is nice, but again: why 62 AND not 61.

1962 is basically the same as a 1961 EXCEPT with

smaller, less raked, less pronounced tailfins and

with some brightwork deleted.

[Camino LS6]

Very cool idea!

I've had a similar scheme in my head for a while...

[Drew Dowdell]

Hmmm. Have a Western PA/Eastern PA/NJ based service and offer cars from both ends of the state for an additional fee.

[A Horse With No Name]

My List of Favorites

1961-63 Imperial LeBaron

1961-64 Continental

1965, 1956, 1962, 1939-41 Cadillac

I love all of them, but I really love Lincolns of the era.

Chris

[Camino LS6]

Hmmm. Have a Western PA/Eastern PA/NJ based service and offer cars from both ends of the state for an additional fee.

My idea has a slightly wider scope...

... but maybe we should talk. :AH-HA_wink:

[Drew Dowdell]

[knightfan26917]

Hmmm. Have a Western PA/Eastern PA/NJ based service and offer cars from both ends of the state for an additional fee.

*raises eyebrow*

Uhh...would you or Camino hire me to be one of your drivers...please?

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[Drew Dowdell]

So spell it out Camino. That's what this thread is for.

[Camino LS6]

OK.

I was keeping this one to myself, but the basic idea is to supply period and special interest cars to the movie industry, and the advertising industry. The limo idea could be a diversification of what I've been thinking.

There are more details, but I'm not going to post all of that for now.

[Drew Dowdell]

OK.

I was keeping this one to myself, but the basic idea is to supply period and special interest cars to the movie industry, and the advertising industry. The limo idea could be a diversification of what I've been thinking.

There are more details, but I'm not going to post all of that for now.

I think there are already companies out there that do that sort of thing.... minus the limo part.

[GMTruckGuy74]

I think there are already companies out there that do that sort of thing.... minus the limo part.

Yeah, there's a guy based out of Philadelphia that has, among other cars, a '61 or '62 Caddy convertible in pink. The car is available for chauffered weddings and other events, plus being rented out for movie roles (it's claim to fame = being driven by Meshach Taylor <aka "Hollywood Montrose"> in Mannequin Two: On The Move).

[Drew Dowdell]

it's claim to fame = being driven by Meshach Taylor <aka "Hollywood Montrose"> in Mannequin Two: On The Move).

THAT is a claim to fame?!

[Camino LS6]

I think there are already companies out there that do that sort of thing.... minus the limo part.

There are, but I have some ideas about all of that (and a few connections). The Philly area is hosting more and more movie productions every year, and NY is an easy distance.

[A Horse With No Name]

I followed an internet link to one of the Hollywood companies once that rented cars like that. They made damned good money off of it.

Chris

[Drew Dowdell]

Another addition to the virtual fleet.

Lincoln 1960 Continental Mark IV

1967 Fleetwood Limousine

Love the idea, hate the execution - 2008 CTS Limo

[Intrepidation]

[A Horse With No Name]

Hate me for sayig this, but I love that paint job on that car!

Chris

[Drew Dowdell]

That's sharp... even if it is a Buick pattern on a Chrysler.

[Drew Dowdell]

Well this would certainly be a unique addition to the limo fleet.

We could totally corner the visiting Soviet dignitary market!

[Camino LS6]

Putin could feel right at home.

[A Horse With No Name]

WMJ-I think I would have been walking to prom!

Chris