Looking like either Jennifer Blue or Cerulean Blue (my money is on Jennifer Blue), this 1977 Cadillac Sedan DeVille appears to be a nice example of GM’s first year redesigned fifth-generation DeVille series, in a much smaller, lighter size, and just about as much luxury as before, but with an easier driving experience. The seller has it posted here on craigslist in Collinsville, Missouri, and they’re asking $15,995. Here is the original listing, and thanks to Tony P. for the tip!
I love how they color-coordinated the rear bumper filler color with the vinyl top color! That’s a nice touch. I’m kidding, of course, but I’d rather have a slightly darker bumper filler material than none, which we’ve seen many times here. Hopefully, any good body shop can match the paint and make those disappear into one long, flowing sea of light blue. While they’re at it, there appears to be some surface rust on the bottom of the left quarter panel, unless that’s dirt.
For my $16,000, I’d want this car to look like new, but it doesn’t, unfortunately. I can’t see them getting their asking price, but then again, if they had asked $12,000, someone would have offered $6,000, so now they’ll offer $9,000 and maybe meet at $12,000? Hagerty is at $8,700 for a #3 good-condition example. I can’t imagine this one being more than that with the exterior issues to take care of. And then there’s the uber-low-mile claim. They show the odometer and list the mileage as being 18,370, but it’s a five-digit odometer, and without records, there’s really no way to tell what the true mileage is. Here’s a 1977 Cadillac brochure.
I’d want light blue leather on my $16,000 DeVille rather than the base velour, but that’s just me. Velour or any other fabric is probably more comfortable year-round, though. Cadillac made the smaller fifth-generation DeVilles from 1977 through 1984, and this interior sure looks like it’s from a low-mile car. The carpet and driver’s side floor mat could use some work, but the driver’s side of the power bench seat doesn’t look flat and worn out. The back seat area looks perfect, but the trunk doesn’t quite look as nice.
The engine compartment is great to see, but disappointing that it hasn’t been detailed for a car with a $15,995 asking price. It’s as dirty as a car with 10 times the mileage, and it really would have been a good selling strategy to have the bumper filler material matched to the paint and to detail the engine compartment with this high of an asking price. This dirty engine should be Cadillac’s 425-cu.in. OHV V8 with around 180 horsepower and 320 lb-ft of torque when new. Backed by an automatic transmission, of course, the seller doesn’t say anything about its operating condition at all, but they do say it was garaged (garages). How much is this Sedan DeVille worth based on the photos?
Listing is already gone. Very clean car until you see the engine picture, I find it very hard to believe the mileage claim with that filth. It could easily be 118k, and the rest of the car remain that clean. They were very well-built, I had a 77 Coupe De Ville for 18 years.
Jennifer Blue, I dated her in high school… but seriously, I always wondered about the thought process behind naming a color after what at the time was a highly trendy baby name.
Cadillac’s hope spot, the dawn before the darkness of the ’80s, the moment when it looked like they could reclaim the Standard of the World before plunging into a Lost Decade of bad engines and stagnant styling.
This one is close to being a “Prices Starting At…” special with the vinyl top as the only really obvious option I can see. Glaring paint mismatch on the rear filler panel but they’re all fully there
not an 18k engine bay that’s for sure. somebody wanted it because it’s gone.
118k 218k…
Very nice looking Cadillac. Light options but all you need. They knew you’d pay more for a divided seat. I’d love to get behind that hard plastic steering wheel and select drive.
My son had a Warner Brothers L.P. with an inner sleeve declaiming, “Your limo is ready” promoting a WB sampler album and showing a front end picture of this car — and that’s all I see when I look at this. I never cared for the look then, and I’m afraid that don’t now, either.
I have that album too – a sampler of Warner Brother artists. I actually bought it twice since the first copy got water damage. Very cheap album to buy, but like you said the cover art is great.
To PRA4SNW: If you SAY so: I only saw it promoted on the inner sleeve of one of my son’s records in the late 1970s: this styling of Cadillac was not my favourite, and the 1970s DEFINITELY NOT my era in music! But wasn’t this collection a two-record gatefold set that sold for something like $1.99?
Harrison,
Yes, the gatefold was a drawing of a Caddy Limo. Very cool cover. Here is a picture of it: https://www.discogs.com/release/5018427-Various-Limo/image/SW1hZ2U6MzU3Njg5MjU=
These promo albums got you a lot of music for next to nothing. This one has almost 40 songs, and they would throw on a few that were Top 40, but most were album cuts – trying to get you familiar with some of their other artists.
Here is the track listing of Limo: https://www.discogs.com/release/5018427-Various-Limo
The car is Cerulean Blue; the bumper fillers are Jennifer Blue.
I like that idea, Steve H! You may be right. I wasn’t sure if it was the optional “Firemist” color or not, since it didn’t have leather or some other options.
Cadillac used to let customers order any color combination back in the day. It was scary what people thought looked good together! My dad was a salesman for years down south in the 60’s and early 70’s He had a little older lady come in every year and have her dog pick the color of the car! They got rid of some hideous color cars because of her. Cars that were ordered wrong or the customer realized once they saw it, they didn’t like it!
$15,995 is a dealer price and definitely over priced by double.
Being a lover of the ’74 through ’76 Cadillacs these were a huge disappointment for me. Hated them then, hate them now. And the ’85 FWD Cadillacs were even worse IMO. But opinions are like…… nevermind.
Nothing wrong with telling the truth, Angel, even if it IS your “opinion”: many of us AGREE with you on particularly bad models and years of Cadillacs. I had to smile a while back when you suggested that I could become your “Dad”, owing to my age. TRUST me on this: SOME things you don’t want to get INto! A basically abandoned boy decided at age five to “adopt” me: almost 50 years later, he’s still burdened with me (although he insists that it is no burden and that I have been a blessing in his life — but then again, he never had another father figure with whom to compare me). All I can say is, his parents have no idea of the fine person they cavalierly discarded. Now, if we only could find him a wife, before he’s too old to do that — he’s lonely!
To each their own! I feel the opposite. The 77-79 Caddys seemed to me a much needed trim to the bloat of 74-76, and a return to the more modest class of the mid to late 60’s.
500 cid engines getting 9 mpg and only 190hp, and those crazy interiors in plaids, stipes and paisleys…good for a conversation pit, but not for a Caddy. The extra window in the C pillar? What was THAT for? And for me they committed the cardinal sin – – first time since Cadillac introduced the tailfin in ’47 that it wasn’t a taillight! ’77 and onward fixed that sacrilege.
Hey Scotty, don’t forget Back to the 50s this coming weekend!
Arrrrrgh, I think we may be in Duluth this weekend!
Well, you can console yourself with Street Rod Nationals next month!