1964 Cadillac Sedan DeVille

I’ve posted her before, but I thought I’d share some more detailed photos from the restoration process. She was in a barn in Texas for over 20 years before the previous owner pulled her out (to this day she has under 51,000 ORIGINAL miles). Thankfully I saved her from his plans to chop her into a coupe. When I was cleaning out the glovebox I found a note from the original owner saying “Take care of my - this car. Her name is Maud - a good car.”

Once she was running pretty reliably (which wasn’t for quite some time), I went in and touched up the engine bay. It’s certainly not that pretty anymore - I drive her too much to bother making that part showy.

Then she spent 8 months in paint & body restoration. As you can see we took her down to bare metal to take care of the rust and minimize the filler. We also color swapped to the darker green.

Finally, she got a brand new interior. The original colors weren’t doing it for me, and I didn’t think silk would hold up (as evidenced by the original interior) so we went with a darker green & white vinyl in the original pattern. The dash was re-dyed to match, and we replaced the carpet.

She’s an absolute dream of a car. Sure she leaks a bit (kinda like BP leaked a bit a few years ago) and I can’t pass a gas station without stopping, and the air-con doesn’t work, but I absolutely love her.

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Comments

Hmcustomworks

you should put suicide doors on it

10/17/2015 - 05:21 |
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Stop.

10/17/2015 - 05:41 |
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Here’s for you and your “idea” about suicide doors on this beauty

10/17/2015 - 07:02 |
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Hmcustomworks

sorry mother

10/17/2015 - 05:42 |
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Anonymous

Beautiful car, man. Love the history that goes along with it too!

10/17/2015 - 05:43 |
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ramses rizal

I’ll always love old caddy eventho i’m not from us.This one is drop dead gorgeous man.Do you plan to keep it low milage or just enjoy it and drive it as much as you can?

10/17/2015 - 07:07 |
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I drive her as much as I can. That said, I usually don’t take her too far out, so she doesn’t clock too many miles.

10/18/2015 - 20:37 |
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Anonymous

I am friends with an older gentleman that currently owns 7 Cadillacs.
1966 Deville Convertible
1971 Fleetwood Brougham (Brittany Blue)
1991 Fleetwood Brougham (Academy Gray)
1993 Fleetwood Brougham( I don’t remember the name of the color, but it is gray with a hint of purple)
2003 Deville (Metallic Beige)
1991 Eldorado (Brown)and finally……………………………………..
1958 Eldorado Brougham (No. 683 of 704) (Ebony Black)He’s owned the brougham since 1973, and bought it for $3250… Has All the Vanities.
He’s also owned 115 Cadillacs in his lifetime

12/02/2015 - 04:40 |
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