There’s a long list of cliche’ catch phrases that have long been associated with selling a used car. Here’s an example of the term “like new condition” that isn’t an empty promise or exaggeration at all. This pampered 45-year-old 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille has only 2,750 original miles. And based on the supplied photos, it indeed looks practically showroom new. It also has the Phaeton special edition package that the seller claims had a low production of only 1,832. The $2,029 Custom Phaeton Package was basically a cosmetic factory option package that intended to elevate the already luxurious Coupe DeVille to a new level of elegance and exclusivity. In addition to a mock padded fabric roof treatment (that tried to give the appearance of classic Cadillac convertibles from days gone by), other exterior add-ons included the Phaeton script on each rear fender, color-keyed side moldings, flush opera lamps with the Cadillac crest, accent stripes, and wire wheel covers.
The seller is very scant with the Caddy’s history and even basic information. I guess he/she feels the photos and copy of the original build sheet will do all the necessary talking. The car is wearing its factory Cotillion White paint (and bumper fillers) and Dark Blue padded fabric roof and they all look to be in great condition. I’m not spotting any flaws or imperfections on this luxury time capsule.
The “like-new” white and blue interior of this Cadillac is unbelievable. The white 6-Way Power 45/55 Dual Comfort front leather seats (and back bench seat) look perfect as does the blue and faux wood-trimmed elegant instrument panel and dash. The original plush blue carpet has a protective covering over it and the seller says the original carpeted rubber front and rear floor mats are also included. As expected, this Cadillac is loaded with 70’s-era driver and creature comforts including Automatic Climate Control, power steering, windows, door locks, and brakes, A/C, cruise control, a tilt and telescopic leather-wrapped steering wheel, and an AM/FM Stereo Radio with cassette player.
Under the hood, the Phaeton is equipped with a 7.0 Litre V8 that’s paired with a three-speed automatic transmission. Only 2,750 miles are on the odometer. This time-capsule coupe is currently residing in Melville, New York, and is for sale here on craigslist with a listed price of $39,795. Hagerty’s values a 1979 Cadillac in #1 Concourse condition at $25,100. I know this “rare” Caddy has extremely low mileage and looks like a museum car, but I’m not sure if the seller’s going to get that asking price. I guess time will tell. We’d like to thank Mitchell G. for sending this fabulous Phaeton our way. It’s only the second one ever featured here on Barn Finds. I think it would be cool to drive this car just once and step back to 1979 when Cadillac was still clinging to their “Standard of the World” image. I bet this is one silky smooth, quiet, comfy ride. (I’d even put in a Kenny Rogers or ABBA cassette for the full 1979 experience.)
🎶 🎸 🗣🎤 ” Easing down the highway in a new Cadillac
I had a fine fox in front, I had three more in the back
They sporting short dresses, wearing spike-heel shoes
They smoking Lucky Strikes and wearing nylons too
‘Cause we bad, we’re nationwide
Yeah, we bad, we’re nationwide”
😎 🎵
Arguably the best ZZ Top tune ever. I’m now old enough to rock white and blue decor. We bad…!
Right on Nelson 🎸
Given our depreciated dollar, this car is a bargain. I just not sure where you could use this car anymore with the tight parking spaces and door ding clearances these days.
But as a weekend driver, wow, a show stopper!
To buy this `79 is to literally step back to that year. I graduated HS that May, but even then I would have jumped at the chance to own one of these. Back when Cadillacs were just that; a pinnacle of achievement.
Dad traded in our 78 creamcorn yellow Eldorado Biarritz on a 79 Fleetwood bougham. Smoke gray with light gray vinyl top. I still have the 79 brochure but more importantly i remember him bringing home the salesmans 3 ring binder with the cloth and leather interior swath squares and all the vinyl top color swaths. It was a whole deal picking out your colors and materials and checking off all tge right boxes. I also remember Dad being pretty impressed w/that 425 after having that same 7.0 in the 900 lb heavier Eldo
I guess all the screaming deals on low mile Caddy’s are right at home in Melville,N.Y.
I don’t think the asking price is out of line. Would I buy it? No, probably not, but I imagine there are car guys out there, that this would not be a big number for them and this car.
Meh, you start driving that Caddy and oil and trans fluid will start seeping out everywhere. Beautiful car for sure but who needs a garage queen.
I still can’t figure out why frameless side glass disappeared on some cars – like this caddy, the ’80 thunderbird, ’77 caprice, etc.
Joey NY because they rattled and didnt seal well over time.
I don’t buy that. Compare how many ’77-’79 t-birds with frameless side glass were sold to ’80-82 t-birds with framed side glass.
My ’91 3000gt has frameless glass, very high mileage & been outside a lot & those windows do not rattle or leak.
In the ’60s, many non sports cars were available with 2 & 4 doors & with AND without door frames. You had big choices back then!
I think the car companies, starting in the ’80s, wanted to give us buyers less & less choices! Where are the non sport car 2 doors today? Where are the 26 exterior color choices today that Ford had in 1967?
Lasty, if you have an older house with a narrow garage, it is lot easier to squeeze in & out of the car if you have frameless side glass with the window rolled down with no frame in the way,
Look like it’s a real time capsule but is it worth the ask? I remember the Phantom. It’s always been a special Cadillac to me. Gorgeous color combination. Someone is going to get a nice classic Cadillac just a little bit too high ask for me.
I had one of the last fleetwood Brougham Cadillac`s 350 fuel injected white with red leather. And what a nice cruiser I really liked that car and my neighbor kept bugging me to sell it too him he wanted it badly so I sold it to him and wish I never had. I guess Live and learn
I’ve never owned a Cadillac, but this is one to have. However, Nelson C, I only heard ZZ Top once — and I could not reach fast enough for the radio-dial to change it! — not for ME!! But then, nobody plays my 1946-1962 hits anymore.– and just before “the British Invasion”, I rather gave up on new popular music (save for a few exceptions such as Roger Whittaker’s “The Last Farewell” and Frank Mills’s “Music Box Dancer”. But I can enjoy my Guy Lombardo 78s any time I choose. Only, I wish they wouldn’t blast me out with all of that shreaky infernal noise from blaring speakers in nearly every store or shop that I enter! — SOME of us aren’t 28-years-old, ya know…
To Nelson C: I apologise for the remark about ZZ Top: I have to realise that folks who are not ancient like me, or even those of my age who are more flexible in their tastes, enjoy what they enjoy, and have every right to do so! I guess I’m just “old” — but, for about 60 years now, I have felt persecuted by what is played on the radio and/or comes blaring out of someone else’s speakers, be it “classic rock”, “rap”, “heavy metal”, “punk”, “hard-core”, or whatever. Please, just play me one of the popular records from a few years either side of 1950, where I can understand the words, flow with the melody, and not gain a headache within fifteen seconds. That’s all.
No apology needed. Many of us aren’t 28 years old anymore. When I was 16 my brother was 30. I wanted to drive something fast and loud with the windows down and the radio up. Mom said I should have more respect for the neighbors and one day I’d get my comeuppance. Well things have changed and that day has come. I work in a dealership by the freeway and it seems the many vehicles have modified exhaust and only operate at wide open throttle. It’s difficult to have a conversation sometimes without going inside. I still appreciate a true muscle car and I enjoy a wide variety of music which I credit to mom. The tune “Nationwide” is a cute story of a Guy and his appreciation of cars and *ahem* the Ladies.
Nelson C: I don’t know the tune, “Nationwide”, I’m afraid — so, you LOST me on THAT one. My father bought a number of records in the 1920s, so I grew up hearing those, as well as what was playing in the 1940s and 1950s when I was young. When rock-‘n’-roll began to appear in the early ‘Fifties, I got used to it, then liked it. But popular music in the 1960s got too brash and harsh for me, and I retreated back into what was comforting and familiar. The music I enjoyed when it was new is no longer even played on the radio these days. It just seems that general NOISE levels are a whole lot higher and LOUDer now. Unlike you, I never was into fast cars. And to this day, “muscle” cars hold no appeal for me. I always liked sedans — so I guess I’m a “square” (if people still use that term). Smiles to you!