Rare Ember Firemist (98) Mostly Original Paint, Nice Original Interior, Loaded! on 2040-cars
Summerfield, North Carolina, United States
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1966 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible "Regarded by Many as the Last Year for the Best Eldorado.....If you ever drove one you would understand why!" HIGHLY OPTIONED CAR *** SPECIAL "ELDORADO ONLY" EMBER FIREMIST COLOR *** ORIGINAL CONDITION UP FOR AUCTION is my 1966 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible. The 1966 Eldorado is regarded by many to be the "Last of the Best" of the Eldorado offering with a convertible and rear wheel drive....The 1967 model got a complete remake and though a styling breakthrough, it was now front-wheel drive and was not offered again as a convertible until 1971. I love them all, I really do, but the 1966 models are my favorite. The 429 makes smooth power and idles so quiet you barely hear them running at a stop light. This Eldorado is a highly optioned car that is still wearing almost all of it's original paint with the exception of the passenger fender which suffered a minor "Grandpa parking/garage entry bruise"(.....It's always the passenger side, right?) The floors and frame are very solid and the original interior is terrific for being all original: The dash pad has NO cracks and the instruments are clean...The temperature sensor plastic bezel is 100% (most of the time these are trash). The original carpet is great and the door panels are super nice with only the top edge of the wood needing refinishing. The trim is complete and the rear bumper center is straight (most of the cars you see are always pushed in at the license plate and the top gap along the trunk is irregular). As for the front bumper, I have an arrow straight spare on a parts car that's included in the sale. All the "E L D O R A D O" letters are on the car but an "O" and the parts car has that one so it's covered. The white top is in great condition (almost new) but it's dirty....The car is coded for a black top and I think it would look better with black since the interior is black. Back to the options.....This Eldorado had the boxes checked when it was ordered: A/C, Power Trunk Closer, Trunk Release, AM/FM Stereo (That still plays and the power antenna still works), twilight Sentinel Headlight controller, Cruise Control, as well as the power vent windows and primary windows (all working) and power seats. If you want to dress it up with an option it did not have, the parts car has the rare Bucket Seats w/ Headrests and Consolette. This Eldorado drives well....Bump the key and the engine comes to life and goes to high idle for the warm up. Blip the accelerator when it's warm and it drops to operating idle without issue. The transmission shifts as it should (I have serviced it and replaced the rear seal back in the fall...Also had the driveshaft balanced while it was out). The brake system was also gone thru last fall and received new lines, master cylinder, and wheel cylinders. The more it is driven, the better it runs. I have owned the car for 4 years and intended to give her all the love she deserves, but I am planning on relocating to the west and away from the cold/wet east and decided that I would not start anymore projects than I already have on-going, so it is with regret that I offer this great car to someone else. This is an EXCELLENT opportunity to buy a good solid mostly original car that you can drive around in and give it the "refreshing" when you can, as you can. Most of the time when these cars are available, they are rusty clap wagons that are missing parts and pieces or they are restored cars asking over $80,000 (and these classic Cadillacs are not Camaros,Tri 5s, or Mustangs....You can't build the whole car with a cowl tag or just order the parts from Year One or NPD.....If you're missing something you have to hunt for the correct part and then restore it. Starting off with a complete, solid and original car makes a BIG difference. DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!!! Call with any questions 336-202-8762 or email. |
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2015 Cadillac Escalade
Fri, 29 Aug 2014I have never liked traveling to Monterey, CA. The picturesque coastal city is about 300 miles from my home in Los Angeles, which means cramped and uncomfortable regional aircraft are part of the equation when the turnaround is only one night. Over the years, I have cursed the LA Basin's bumper-to-bumper traffic en route to the airport, argued with TSA personnel over carry-on baggage and waited countless hours for the fog to lift just for the anguish of being packed into a small regional jet for the flight. Of course, the process repeats on the trip home with equal misery.
Yet this time I am not suffering.
Cadillac has dropped its all-new 2015 Escalade in my driveway. Instead of battling city congestion, attempting to reason with misinformed government agents, snacking on a too-small bag of pretzels and physically rubbing shoulders with a dubious stranger for 90-plus minutes within the confines of a bumpy aircraft, I have chosen to forgo air travel and drive myself door-to-door in a fullsize luxury sport utility vehicle.
GM admits Cadillac ELR no real competition for Tesla Model S
Fri, Aug 15 2014Last year, then-CEO of General Motors, Dan Akerson, made it clear that the company lookouts at the Ren Cen had California automaker Tesla in their sights. "If you want to compete head-to-head with Tesla, and we ultimately will, you want to do it with a Cadillac," he said. So, given the fact that the Cadillac ELR has a plug and sells for roughly the same price at the Tesla Model S ($75,000 vs $69,900, before incentives) and that Cadillac doesn't have any other electric vehicle on the horizon, you'd be forgiven if you thought that the way that Akerson wanted to challenge Tesla's EV success was with the ELR. Well, you'd apparently be wrong. "The ELR is a different car, it's a different price point. It's way-different technology." - GM's Mark Reuss Speaking yesterday in Detroit, GM's head of global product development, Mark Reuss, admitted that the ELR is not the Tesla competitor that Akerson promised. "People like to say the ELR is [competition for the Model S], but it's really not. It's a different car, it's a different price point. It's way-different technology." So, if we follow that logic to conclusion with Akerson's quote from last year, then the only way that Cadillac can eventually compete with Tesla is with a pure electric car, and that seems an outside chance, at best, for the foreseeable future. Through the end of July, Cadillac has sold 578 ELRs since it went on sale earlier this year. Tesla doesn't break out monthly US sales, but has sold 15,114 Model S EVs around the world in the first six months of 2014. For his part, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already said that GM is headed down the wrong path with plug-in hybrids like the ELR or the Chevy Volt. Speaking about the Volt last year, Musk said, Chevy "sort of created something that's a bit of amphibian," which resulted in a car that's, "Okay but not great."
Ford C-Max spot aimed squarely at Cadillac ELR 'Poolside' hubris [UPDATE]
Thu, Mar 27 2014If we had tried to predict the first video response to the controversial Poolside video for the Cadillac ELR, we would not have thought it would center on compost. But, hey, it's always nice to be reminded that the real world is sometimes better than fiction. Instead of the chic swagger of 'Poolside,' 'Anything Is Possible' is all about getting dirty. The new short in question is called Upside: Anything Is Possible and it promotes two things: Detroit Dirt and the Ford C-Max Energi. As in the ELR ad, Ford's plug-in C-Max only makes an appearance at the tail end of the spot, but instead of the chic swagger of Poolside, Anything Is Possible is all about getting dirty. The ad stars Pashon Murray, co-founder of Detroit Dirt, which takes natural waste from around Detroit, composts it into soil and then spreads that around "forgotten parcels" of Detroit to create urban farms. Detroit Dirt gets its bio-waste from a lot of sources, including the Detroit Zoological Society (all that herbivore manure has to go somewhere), Ford and General Motors, but this particular ad was the idea of Ford's PR agency, Team Detroit. It was a frenetic shoot, filmed with an LA-based director right after a big winter storm blew through Detroit, and Murray couldn't be happier with the result. "This was Ford Motor Company pushing my story, letting me tell the story that I believe in," Murray tells AutoblogGreen. "I get to help push this car and I get to tell my story." She says that the Team Detroit and Ford had to agree on the message, "from my understanding, [YouTube] is where they wanted to start, not where they wanted to finish." The ad is already getting a positive response on Twitter, so we won't be surprised if it shows up in more places soon. "It's not saying Ford is better than GM. It's telling the story of a black woman who's working hard in Detroit." As Detroit Dirt has off-screen support from both GM and Ford, it's unsurprising to hear Murray say that the video "is not a rivalry thing." She notes that the ad agency Team Detroit came to her and offered to tell the Detroit Dirt story using the framework of the GM ad. "It's a parody on this commercial, but it's not saying Ford is better than GM," she said. "It's telling the story of a black woman who's working hard in Detroit." What is that story? It's about urban farming, recovery and recycling. Murray tells us that for the last seven or eight years, she's been dedicated to sustainability.