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.