1966 Cadillac Coupe De Ville. A two owner California car, before landing in Chicago. Always garage kept, Beautiful Marlin Blue Poly paint (color code 24) has a slight shimmering metallic glow. Professional bare metal frame on repaint in 2009. Original chrome bumpers in great shape. Two door handles were re-chromed at repaint job.
New body to bumper gaskets, door handle gaskets, trunk lock gaskets, hood and trunk bumpers. Trunk weather strip, new roof rail replaced during repaint.
Front and rear glass removed and resealed, and bare metal roof painted before new correct style (SMS Auto Co.) padded vinyl top installed. All trim bright work in great shape. Bumpers removed for paint job and reinstalled with new rubber trim. All rubber parts replaced for correct paint job in March 2009.
Interior refinished in March 2010, seat tracks cleaned and greased, seat springs repaired as needed and frames painted. New front and rear seat foam and vinyl covers. Two front door panels re-dyed, arm rests recovered and bottom of doors carpeted. New correct style carpet and padding installed. Original seat belts in great shape. Headliner in great shape. Always a non smoking car. Glass good, no scratches.
Brand new Accuair e-Level ENDO air management with TouchPad. Four new 4-ply Firestone bags with cups. Four CPP (Classic Performance Products) Nitro shocks mounted. Four new Coker BF Goodrich 2 ¾ white wall tires at 86,140 miles . Replaced engine rocker arm shafts in March 2016 from USA caddy parts. Sand blasted rocker arm covers, primed epoxy and painted correct shade dark blue paint. New water pump installed with new fuel pump. New rocker arm cover gaskets. Belts and hoses replaced at this time while everything apart. Changed all coolant , radiator hoses and rubber hoses to fuel pump. Recored original brass radiator with new thermostat and radiator cap installed. Rebuilt original starter. Two Batteries with high voltage alternator installed. A/c converted to R134A with brand new compressor, condenser, evaporator and expansion valve. Ice cold and blows strong. Rebuilt Carter original carb, distributor upgraded to petronix, with new plugs, 8mm wires, high fire coil and cap. New true dual exhaust from manifold back with stainless Magnaflows mufflers. Nice low tune but no obnoxious by no means.
This Coupe De Ville came from California. Have all records from the first 2 previous owners. Have original owners manual and California service records.
3rd owner purchased in August 2007 and shipped to Chicago where it had been in winter garage storage and driven only for the summer seasons. In October 2007 AAMCO Transmissions rebuild the TH400 transmission, at 85,174 miles with a new torque converter, new starter drive flex plate, new rubber trans mount bushing, and balanced the driveshaft. Rear end opened up and inspected with new axle bearings installed and fresh gear lube.
Removed oil pan and installed new gaskets and rear main seal while transmission was being rebuilt. They painted the oil pan and transmission pan black, while it should of been Cadillac deep blue..
Replaced driver side power window lock out switch, passengers window switch, and repaired the wire harness by drivers door pillar. Soldered those 8 window wire leads that break due to door opening and closing... March 2016.
low beam headlights replaced in March 2017. November 2017 replaced the two exhaust manifold gaskets to down pipes.
3rd owner always did a yearly oil change, 10w 30 with a AC/ Delco PF24 oil filter. Greased upper and lower ball joints also. Other front end steering parts factory sealed, can’t grease those, but all still tight with no squeaking or groaning. 4 wheel drum brakes fine have been gone through with new brake lines. No leaking at master cylinder. Car runs great, and just floats down roads. Nice loud train style sounding horns work, All power windows work, lights, power antenna, but radio doesn't play. Electric clock not working. Wipers work fine..
Under carriage rust free, inspection welcome. Test drives encouraged.Paint job in great shape, except for 4 small chips / scratches on top of hood by drivers side.Years ago while in storage in the garage these chips were made however metal is not dented. UPDATE (taken care of by professional touch up artist)
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