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The reason I asked about the Brougham is that one of my buddies is a Cadillac fanatic and is looking for a square-headlamp car to complement his '90 and '91 Broughams (which have the newer, updated composite headlamps and refreshed interiors). My hunch would be that Lemko isn't open to offers no matter how big or small.
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Do you still own your '85 Chevy half-ton pickup truck? If I remember correctly it was once owned by another family member.
BTW, if it makes it to roughly June or July of this year, it will have been in the family 30 years! My Granddad bought it new over the summer of '85. He died in 1990. Grandmom kept it around until around 1995 or so, and gave it to my Mom and stepdad. They bought a new F-150 in 2002, and passed the Chevy on to me.
I drove it a couple weeks ago when I visited the folks in CA .. what a time machine.
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Today I looked at a 1966 Porsche 912---original owner! All original still, except for new paint. After driving it, all I can say is that Porsche has come a mighty long way in 50 years.
Driving these delicate little sports cars from the 60s and 70s on modern freeways really gets one's anxiety levels up. You just know that if one of these behemoth SUVs smacked into you, you'd basically disintegrate.
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Also the engine, a 305-4bbl, will smoke a bit on startup, and hard acceleration. It has about 140,000 miles on it. It's okay as a backup vehicle for work, as my job is only 2.5 miles away. And, hauling junk to the dump, and so forth. My uncle has also used it to take lawn equipment (tractor, snowblower, tiller, etc) back and forth to the repair shop...he likes it because it sits lower than my 2012 Ram, so it's a lot easier to load and unload things. In fact, last summer, the lawn equipment place accidentally smashed something through the back window when loading it up, so I got a nice, new tinted sliding window for free. At the time, the windshield had a huge crack in it as well, and my uncle offered to get a new one put in for me at the same time. I had been putting it off, thinking it would be expensive, but I think it only came out to around 200 bucks. Oddly, the rear window, which the lawn equipment place picked up the tab for, was more expensive!
I don't know that I'd trust it over a long distance any more, though. I've been thinking about selling it, but just been too lazy. I just renewed the registration for two years, so I figure I'm into it for that long, at least...
Even though I do have some sentimental attachment to it, I don't have enough to try and restore it, or anything like that. As for fuel economy, around town I'm lucky to break 10 mpg. Out on the highway though, it'll get 16-18, and when it was newer, it could break 20.
This truck actually replaced a '76 GMC Sierra, which Granddad had bought new. It was a 3/4 ton crew cab, sort of a deep copper color with a white contrast. Looking at the GM paint chart, I think it was called "Grecian Bronze". Sort of like this, except ours was a crew cab...
As a kid, we took a lot of camping trips in it. Grandmom and Granddad had a slide in truck camper. Granddad bought the '85 Silverado, but held onto the GMC another year or two, because the '85 wasn't strong enough to hold the camper. They finally decided that their camping days were over, and the last few trips they made were by '85 LeSabre and motels/relatives' homes, rather than roughing it.
So I did buy an Outback from the 'no haggle' lot. It's a CPO 2014 2.5i. The price was no haggle, fortunately dropped by $200 the day before I came in. There was some back and forth on the trade and I got them to install heated seats for no charge.
Can only has 10k on it, so with the CPO warranty I have almost 6 years and 90k powertrain warranty. That's longer than you get on a new one.
Also, it looks like the transaxle might be going belly up, so good darn thing we do have the warranty!
Here's something - this is maybe a $750-1000 car - we aren't in Germany - looks to maybe have the rare front bench seat option. Not a 3 speed, not a hardtop. It's an oddball, the 220 - single carb, less chrome trim, this was the base 6cyl car. Lower production than the fancier models.
Low and behold, another one pops upMore realistic price
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I too think it is beyond redemption, both cars probably are. Someone might attempt it on the continent, but getting it from here to there hurts the deal. For $4200, it needs to be roadworthy and clean.
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Good to hear from you again.
How is the '89 Brougham running these days? I know it's been a while so I had to ask - have you had to have the engine or transmission rebuilt or replaced yet?
What a difference starting with a charged up battery, so easy! wish I had done it a long time ago.
What a fabulous car. I've always enjoyed seeing it and reading its stories over the years I've frequented the forums.
Not for sale right now, I assume?
New York roads. Pothole killed 2 Michelins
Here's another shot of the car from last October:
It's wearing new tires from Coker tires. I still have three of the OEM Uniroyal Royal Seal Tires. Too bad they are no longer manufactured. I figure this style would be closest to what these Cadillacs would've had in the 1980s.
I was able to get some NOS rocker panel and wheel arch trim to replace those that were destroyed in the accident. I'm not entirely happy with the job the body shop I toke it to in NE PA did, so I'm probably going to have it properly redone by some guys I trust in Philly to do a good job.
This is the Brougham's companion: a 2007 Cadillac DTS Performance "Black Beauty."
P.S.--I'm with berri--I like some chrome on a car, except I do like the completely-body-colored side moldings.
And I agree, Lemko's style is more attractive, in my eye, than the '90-92 style, which had the composite headlights. One advantage to that later style, though, is that you could get a 350 V-8 as an option, although I think that was only in 1991-92. In 1990, and perhaps a few earlier years, it was offered, but only as part of a coach-builder's package, intended for limousines, hearses, etc.
Worse, one of the rally wheels got bent, and it was bent too badly to get straightened back out. I lucked out though, finding one at a local junkyard. It was gray, instead of light jadestone, but by the time you put the center cap on and the chrome trim ring, the contrast with the rest of the car wasn't all that noticeable.
I also remember one of my friends hitting a pothole with his '85 Cavalier and it bent a rim...just a cheap, steel rim. We took the tire off the car, went up to the local Shell station, and they banged it out with a big hammer for five bucks. That was sometime in the early 90's.