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I had a picture of my Riviera's odometer at 123,456.7 miles on my old cell phone, but unfortunately that photo (and phone) is now long gone. I'll be hitting 141,000 tomorrow in my travels. The Lincoln limousine has something like 62,031, I think; I drove it twelve miles from its former home to Sixty8's yard, which is more miles than the old girl had traveled in the past twenty years! The '67 Eldorado has around 118ish on it, but major work was done to the car at 80,000. Oh! And my 1939 Whizzer motorbike replica still has 91 and a half

Rock the Cutlass, dude; especially if it's a '77 four door. All the cool kids have 'em!

Wonder how long it's gonna be before someone posts a link to the picture of the goatse guy......

And we'll be traveling in style and comfort in a certain Lincoln limousine! Hopefully with a little less dust on it!

A guy in my Politics in China class told the professor straight up he wouldn't be in on Friday because he'd be camping out at Best Buy in order to buy a PS3 on launch day; needless to say, the professor wasn't thrilled

Is it a 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme sedan?

Would you hold your gat sideways too?

Hey, at least they didn't part the thing out and make money off of it, or anything. I'm willing to bet that nobody in the world needs a nose for a '71-'72 Cutlass during the height of the muscle car craze, so they did the right thing. x 1000

Good enough! Thanks!

Update: Thanks in part to you, WMJ, my car has been positively identified as a 1974 Lincoln Continental Executive Limousine by Moloney

Excellent find, WMJ! People on the Professional Car Society forums are trying to help me identify a body builder and that photo's the best I've seen yet. It appears to be a '73, but still, it's a big help! Where's that brochure from? Is it for sale?

Here's another picture of it that I like

When one of you guys gets a chance, can you make me an RDM version of my '74 Continental limousine in my sig? Thanks!

The driver's side stretch panel is smashed in, but both doors are fine and close like new; I can beat it back out and do a little bodywork there; the rest of the car is incredibly solid. Needs paint, too. A good tuneup is in order, as is a carb rebuild and new vacuum hoses and stuff, but nothing major. I may get a new top for it if prices aren't retarded. Power is delivered by the mighty Ford 460. Will I keep the wide whites? Absolutely! The set that's on it now are like thirty year-old nylon tires, though, so this particular set will have to go. But not to worry; I think some BF Goodrich Silvertown Radials with a 3-inch or so whitewall are in order!

Good spot on the identification, but you don't want it. The picture's not big enough to show the nasty bend in the outer lip of it; the shop uses it to wrap a garden hose around in the warmer months

Sig updated to reflect the latest acquisition, sir!

I know in the thread about my '67 Eldorado I said it would be the last old car I got for a long time, but..... ..... there's been an old car sitting down at my father's shop for the past decade. It belongs to a friend of the other owner of the place. It's always sorta been in the way no matter where it was put, and lately it's really been a nuisance because it's been sitting in the end of a building that needs to have a floor poured in it to be used for storage. The possibility of junking the car has come up a few times, but it never happened because its owner wanted to hang onto it. My father's friend told me he was going to the owner's house last Saturday to ask him one more time if he wanted to junk it. So I asked that if he was given the okay to junk the car, would it be okay if I were to just take it instead, to which he replied that would be fine. So Monday afternoon I'm over to start the Eldorado up and drive it around the yard when John (the guy who went to ask about the car) walks up to me and tells me he got the okay to junk the car, so I could take it. I was pumped! So what did I get for free, you ask? A 1974 Lincoln Continental limousine! Silver with a black top and a black interior, 18-inch factory stretch with a divider window and two rear-facing jumpseats with separate AM/FM/8-track and only 62,000 miles! Runs and drives great; now all I need to do is get her to stop and she'll be roadworthy (relatively). Pretty swank, eh?

Why don't you spend half as much on a really nice one that some lunatic already shoehorned an LT1 into instead?

Q: What do rednecks do for Halloween? A: Pump kin.

Look on eBay and craigslist or in your local paper or want-ad type thing and look to see what people are getting rid of. Seeing as how rims are the only thing that people know how to add to a car these days, there are an amazing amount of stock wheels to be had at cheap prices because people sell their stock set once they get whatever aftermarket rims they want. The way I found my winter wheels for my Riviera is that I was surfing on eBay one night and there was a guy about 30 miles away that was parting out a '95, had the taillight assembly up for auction but said to email him if you have any needs. I asked him if he had the wheels for it still, he said he did, and ended up meeting him about halfway between our houses. I got a set of stock '95 wheels in fantastic shape that are the silver version of my chrome wheels that I use in nicer months and four tires with 80% tread life left on them for $150. Thanks for posting, by the way; you reminded me I need to mount those.....

Cragar SS would look good on her too with nice shiny black tires, or even the proper raised white letter tire. Just don't be some 80's redneck dirtbag and put American Racing Outlaw I's or Outlaw II's on it or anything

After college I'd like to mothball my Riviera and get a full-size Chevrolet/GMC pickup truck. After my Eldorado is finished and I've enjoyed it for a couple years I'd like a late 20's Buick to play with

Hahahah, yeah, I know we've all said it a thousand times before, but I really do mean it this time, at least in the context of the fact that I don't need many other vehicles from this era. However, if I was to happen upon a nice pre-1940 anything that isn't a Ford, I would definitely have to make an exception

's a very nice B-body you have there besides the cheesy-ass Walmart hubcaps. Get some steelies with derby caps and beauty rings on that thing!

Ever get one of those opportunities you never thought you would? I was given one over the weekend. I'm a manager at a local auto parts store and a guy named Cadillac Bill comes in often to buy stuff from me and we usually talk $h! and laugh and stuff for a while. He's called Cadillac Bill because he's been buying and selling Cadillacs for a living for nearly thirty years. Periodically he tells me about his finds and things he thinks I might be interested in. Remember my white 1971 Coupe DeVille I bought at the beginning of the summer? Turns out I unknowingly bought that car out from under a friend of his who was very interested in it for a good deal less than what he would have paid. He asks what I'd want for it and I told him I really couldn't come up with a figure, so he invites me to his house on Tuesday night to come look at something he thinks I'd be interested in for a trade. So I drive up there, he shows me, I was impressed, but I didn't have quite what he wanted in order to make it a straight trade. I mention I have another car, a 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme sedan, and he says he's not interested in it. He says If I don't let him know by the following day that it's going in the Auto Trader on Thursday. I tell him that's okay, but if he doesn't end up selling the car to let me know and maybe I'd have what he wants for it by then. The next morning the phone rings at around 9:00 AM; it's Cadillac Bill calling me back to see what I wanted to do, I assume. I pick up the phone and he says to me "Well, I talked to a buddy last night and he thinks your Oldsmobile would be the perfect car to give to his girlfriend to learn how to drive on." So with that in mind, I roped Sixty8 into taking the Oldsmobile up for me and SpeedingPenguin into chasing us the two hours make the trade happen. So, with my deepest apologies to Knightfan for trading away his potential winter beater and the Rear-Drive Mafia because I'm not currently truly "one of you," I ended up with a rock-solid, all-original 1967 Cadillac Eldorado in Copper Firemist with a white vinyl top, white leather interior, black carpets, and black dash: Not too shabby, eh? The car has 116,000 miles. At 80,000, however, it received new transmission, axles, timing chain, air shocks, rear sway bar with polyurethane bushings on all new mounts and links, and a bunch of other stuff. How is a car that is notorious for rot and lived its entire life in New England so incredibly solid, you ask? In 1967 this car was bought brand new from Peter Fuller Cadillac in Boston by an old gentleman down in Rhode Island. It was his daily car until he passed away in early 1972; I have the original owner's manual with it's 1971 Rhode Island inspection sticker tucked inside. The car then sat in his garage unused until 1988 when a gentleman in Wilmington, Massachusetts bought it and used it as a toy in the summer occasionally (he had about a dozen other cars) and once again, kept it inside, last driving it in 2003 but still starting it up and taking laps around the neighborhood periodically. Cadillac Bill bought the car last week, along with three other of this generation of Eldorado (a chocolate brown with tan & tan 1967, and two 1968's: red with a white top and black interior, and a triple navy blue) from this gentleman and nearly immediately gave it to me on Wednesday night, making me only the third owner of the car in nearly forty years. The car's interior is in equally as good a shape as the body and only needs a good cleaning to be very presentable. All the brightwork just needs a gentle cleaning and polishing The undercarriage of the car is absolutely and completely spotless and it runs and drives as well as my '96 Riviera does; I've been using it as my daily driver on the state's seven day law (gotta transfer my antique plates next week) and have been getting stares and questions and compliments everywhere I go. It will be restored to completely original, save for one modification that has already been made: those are 1968-1970 parking lamps in the corner of the front fenders. 1967 Eldorados have just a filler piece there, which I think makes the car look unfinished. So there you have it, the last new old car I'll be getting for quite a while; this one's a keeper!