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1959 Bia Roster

Bill Refakis is still working on compiling the 59 Eldorado Biarritz Survivor roster. Please help with photos, chassis/body tag numbers, and whatever history is known on any cars you may know of. Bill has about 100 left to track down, 20-30 in Europe.

 

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Archiv der Kategorie 'Cadillac Owners'

From Cadillac Fan to Cadillac Man

15. February 2005 by Lars Schenk

I had been driving by this little one owner transmission shop a couple times a week, all last summer. I watched this 1970 Coupe Deville go through an updating (new top & paint) and thought to myself.. .that’s gonna be a nice ride for someone.
Toward the end of summer she was FOR SALE. The [...]

1959 Cadillac Restoration - A Cadillac Resurrected

6. December 2004 by Lars Schenk

This is an article I wrote a few years which details my first restorations. Good for a few laughs.
Vic Brincat

Preface
This is an account of my trials and tribulations, successes and failures in the process of restoring a 1959 Cadillac Series Sixty Two Sedan. I wrote this article largely to chronicle many of the (now) [...]

Just Purchased 1958 Sedan De Ville

3. February 2004 by Lars Schenk

My wife has recovered her father’s 58 Sedan De Ville. We purchased it from a man who had bought it from her father some 20yrs ago. When we first saw the car it was surrounded by 2″ to 4″ poplar trees….
It was parked there in the forest imprisioned for a couple decades. We live in [...]

Geralds 59 Coupe

12. December 2003 by Lars Schenk

Hello all, here is Gerald Fourdin’s, one of our Belgium clc members 59 Coupe.
Gerald lives in the “ardens “, the french/moutainside off Belgium , not the most common place to restore a 59 Caddy.
Altough he is only speaking french, and a true “hobby restorer”, he did the job compleet on his own.
I saw the car [...]

1961 pink Cadillac Coupe de Ville

12. December 2003 by Lars Schenk

My car was imported into New Zealand from Washington in July 2003.
Her previous owner called her “Pinky”, and as my nickname is “Binky”, the name has stuck.
I managed to get the numberplate “BINK” which combines us both!
She is a car that gets a lot of use.
To date Pinky has been involved in a “Think Pink” [...]

From Walnut Creek to Stockholm Sweden

21. November 2003 by Lars Schenk

A little something about the 57 C. The car belonged to Richard & Jeanne Dodge from Walnut Creek CA..according to the insurance evidence found in the glove compartment..and it was in use as late as apr.22.85…
I will not restore it to a complete original 57…I guess it will be a mild custom..maybe a lowrider..have to [...]

1969 Deville with ‘59 Fin Implants!

13. November 2003 by Lars Schenk

On June 3, 2003 I bought a 1969 Deville Convertible. Nice car, Aqua Firemist with white interior, 129K miles, and everything worked. One Week later, it started looking rather plain and boring, so I decided to give it some personality with a New Fin Job….
I worked up a plan on a CAD program, grabbed [...]

1967 Eldorado coupe

2. November 2003 by Lars Schenk

This 67 Eldo was purchased when new @ Hillcrest motors, Willshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, October 1966, trough a lady.
She drove the car till 1986, and sold her… to nother lady. With body #1520 and all the options and history she arrived in my garage winter 2000.

   

After a 2 years resto (a difficult car to [...]

1970 de Ville Convertible

2. November 2003 by Lars Schenk

This white 70 convertible is a one owner car, and in my garage since 1998. Purchased when new @ Allen cadillac, laguna beach California (business now @ laguna Niguel)
She ( blondy ) is our “Europe ” cruiser, and we covered approxm. 20.000 mls with her, to Cadillac meetings in France ( Story appears in [...]

Sleeping 1958 Biarritz

27. October 2003 by Lars Schenk

The 58 Biarritz showed under “sleeping 58 Biarritz” was found by coincidence. Car was 40 years at same owner, get ill, sold to a body shop owner. The body shop owner dismanteled the bia , body off , parts in boxes……and died (stroke ).
He’s friend re-assembled the car for me, to ship it to my [...]