This is a very simple, very honest listing. With a clean title, 70,000 miles, this 1969 Cadillac DeVille is being sold for a buy it now price of $800, or best offer. Located in Commerce City, Colorado, and found here on eBay this car has been sitting for almost 40 years. A picture is worth a thousand words, and that is really all the listing has.
However, no pictures of the engine are shown. The listing states that the car has a 472 cubic inch, V8 engine in it, connected to an automatic transmission. It is a safe assumption that it has not been started in the 40 years it has sat. Thankfully it has been propped up on wood to keep the tires from becoming flat spotted.
One picture that does exist, is that of the blue interior. Only the front seats are shown, and they seem like you can sit in them. The middle bench seat looks like the only seat you would want to call shotgun on. A telescoping steering wheel is a stated feature of the car mentioned in the listing. Certainly, an upsell feature that is a must for a car in this condition.
Considering the location of the car, the exterior seems to look a little better than sitting out in the elements for 40 years. There is some surface rust and the gray paint seems to have all been faded. The person listing recommends that the car may best be used for parts. One can appreciate the honesty of a statement like that, especially for the price.
My father bought his brand new Cadillac in 1969. I was ten at the time and thought this car was the cats meow. Unfortunately the quality of Cadillacs in this year was not what everyone had grown to expect. There many little nuances that just drove (no pun) him crazy. The powers seat quit, got to the dealer, they start working. One of the rear windows stop working, than it would start again. Horn, no horn. Just things like that. A few years later they passed some pretty struck lemon law legislation. I guess because of this kind of stuff. Anyway, he ended up trading it in a couple of years later for a Ford Maverick of all things. The dealership couldn’t figure out how to do the deal. They never had to give money and a car on a trade. My father gets the Maverick and cash and drove away happy. It was his way of sticking his finger up to Cadillac I guess. A year or so later he gave the Maverick to my sister and bought a Ford station wagon. It was a nice wagon but somehow riding around in that never made me feel as good as riding around in that 1969 gold Caddy. I might get one someday as I’ve never felt the same about any car my father owned. He ended up buying another years later but I wasn’t a kid anymore and I didn’t ride around in the back seat looking out the window of all the other kids in their parent’s Chevys or Fords. Makes me want to go buy one now. This car is way too far gone to even be a decent doner I’m afraid. Anyway, still like that ole Caddy and thinking about what a great childhood I had
Ma-to-the-d***-d-e-a, though hers is a ’70.
I know that I will be vilified for writing this, but the write-up on this car is just terrible. There are commas that are unnecessary or in the wrong place; the sentence structure is awkward; and as a “story” being told about the car, it’s just not interesting.
Yes, the seats look like you could sit in them. That’s the goofiest point someone could make with regards to the condition of a classic car’s interior. Of course you could sit in them…duh!? Now give me some information I can use!
Honestly, if you are going to write a daily column on an internet-based classic car website, then you need to learn how to write first.
I know I’ll be run up the pole for this post, but I don’t care. We expect immigrants to learn the English language, so we need to set a better example. Does it really matter? Yes, it does.
No profanity, politics, or punctuation/spelling Nazis.
Bob
sit down
Good demo-derby car..
Oh come on Rex, cut the kid some slack
won’t you. Everyone has an off day and
this post was his. For the most part, his
posts are usually well written and have
decent content to them. Bentton, I think
you’ve picked the wrong car to write about. There’s just nothing here that stands out enough for me to borrow
Cousin Ted’s pickup, rent a tow dolly,
and go and get it. Oh sure, the $800
pricetag is fair for whst you see here
but that’s about it. If it were closer,
I’d pull it home today and start working
on it tomorrow. Colorado is a long way
from Florida, so all I can think about is
the ocean of gasoline I’d need for the
round trip there and back. Clearly,
the person who buys this car will
have a very large project on their
hands, but it won’t be me.
Definitely not easy to put lipstick on a pig, even when it’s up on blocks.
Rex. Never mind, you are not worth the effort.
It’s such a shame that no one put it in a warehouse forty years ago. The car could have been preserved and the write-up sheer poetry. This poor old DeVille isn’t long for it.
Reminds me of a 72 Cadillac i bought in 88 for 150$ at a gas station in Philly. Was quite in the same condition though not sitting for decades. Took me from there all cross country to SF and LA without any troubles. Big machine, dangerous look, great car, loved it.