This is just what your car collection needs! Thanks to JohnU for sending us this listing which can be seen here on kijiji.ca. This celebrity car is a 1971 Cadillac wagon once owned by Evil Knievel. The asking price has just been reduced from $125,000 to $95,000. The car is currently for sale in Niagara Falls, New York. If you question whether this is a real Cadillac owned by the man himself, that is how it was titled in Montana.
The seller looks to be the Evil Knievel Museum and states that the car has only 36,000 miles. With cruise control and air conditioning, your kids would love to be seen being dropped off in this car at school. Personally, I would spend $95,000 on a Dodge Hellcat Redeye but to each his own. This coach built vehicle would probably be equipped with the Cadillac 472 cubic inch V8 engine that produced 375 horsepower and 525 foot pounds of torque. I wonder what kind of gas mileage this car would achieve?
Most Cadillac wagons were built by Custom Craft from 1968-1976. Their parent company was American Sunroof Corporation (ASC) and the car was used the Special 60 wagon as a base car. The conversions were primarily done in Fleetwood and Sedan De Ville trim. A few Eldorados were also custom built. The cars used the roofs, tailgates and interiors from Buick and Oldsmobile wagons. I always liked the clam shell tailgates on these monsters.
I am sure that there are more of you out there that know more about Cadillac wagons, so please share your knowledge below in the comments sections and remember what Evil said, “You are Never a Failure Until You Fail To Get Up!”
“Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars” -Evil Knievel
Evel shoulda just learned to play the guitar
Play the guitar? What, and break all his fingers?
“And having a Doctor on my staff who will write any prescription I need is also huge!!”
“There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.” -Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel also said, “I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I’d never run out of nerve. Never.”
That’s a Fleetwood Brougham, not an Eldorado. Besides completely different styling, an Eldorado had two doors. And front-wheel drive.
100% agree. ‘71 Eldos have a different headlight configuration. Also, that’s a two-way tailgate, not a clamshell. I owned a 1970 Custom Craft Caddy wagon – the formula was a Fleetwood front end paired with the back end of a Pontiac Bonnevile wagon. Bought mine for $700. Wish I hadn’t let it go!
I sort of thought the same thing until I reread the vehicle’s name. It’s EL DEORA, not Eldorado. Different spelling.
I’m stunned at the lack of pictures for a $95,000 listing. Maybe it’s their first time selling a car. smh
The museum is actually in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Shouldn’t be an issue getting it over the border, tho, as it’s over 25 years old.
Evel would have just jumped it over the Niagara River Gorge.
Maybe Kenny would have made it in this rig instead of a Lincoln. https://youtu.be/uifTec03I8M
Interesting that Evel has more than one museum. There is also an Evel Knievel museum in Topeka, KS. 2047 SW Topeka Blvd. Several of his bikes, 1974 Mack tractor and “Big Red” trailer, along with all the usual “stuff” that you find in museums.
I’m pretty sure the name (El Deora, not Eldorado) is in reference to the oversized aftermarket grille and padded roof on this thing.
It would make sense a guy like this would have his own hearse. Either way you’re going home in your own car!
i’ll buy if it can jump snake river and make it. Yes you can strap up to three to the wagon 🚀 🚀
🚀 🤣😎🤔
Now for Evil fans out there ….
“But you come to a point in your life when you can’t pull the trigger anymore.”
“You come to a point in your life when you really don’t care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.”
Ditto
And you also come to a point when you realize your act has worn itself out and Johnny Carson is tired of interviewing you.
Certainly not an Eldorado :) Front side lights suggest Fleetwood Brougham.
Probably a 501 and for what they were they weren’t terrible on gas. Better than a Buick, but not like an Olds.
No it’s the 472. The 500 was only in the Eldorado. The rest of the rwd lineup had the 472. They wouldn’t be 500 equipped until a couple years later.
great car, i know where you can buy a rough one for $4K
😀i have a 69 1 owner black,black,cdv 😎
That price is crazy .There are a lot of younger people that don’t even no who he was .I was a kid in the 70s and remember watching him on TV doing jumps ,even had the Evil knievel bicycle.🛵🦅
Please turn off or override the autocorrect, commenters.
The name is Evel. E V E L. Not “Evil”.
The Caddy? Not just “no thanks”, but h*ll no! (I don’t like it.)
😛🙈
Get over it dude you wine to much.Have a great day.✌😁
Learn to write effectively, or you’ll have to jump cars on a motorcycle for a living.
It’s W-H-I-N-E.
Also, use AT LEAST one space after a period. Two is even better. See how nice that looks? Easier to read, as well. Go ahead, they’re free. Just as our elementary school teachers taught us.
And thank you, you have a good day too.
:)
Grammar police are out in force.
WOW!
Who really cares, we know what they are saying.
When I first saw the misspelling, my first thought was “I wonder if Evel ever thought of himself as Evil”.
Who cares about mileage….smiles per gallon is what really counts!
More interested in watching him jump using those big Harleys…hate to say this but the spills are highly entertaining. That crash in Vegas attempting to jump the fountains was one of the worse, most painful to watch mishaps in motorcycling!
As for the wagon, I don’t know really, only a die hard Evel fan would be intetested…..and loaded with dough.
Evel Knievel’s response to Jim Rome asking him in a radio interview why do the Snake River Canyon jump if there was only a 50-50 chance of survival – “Do you know who the hell I am?”
The ultimate badass remark, all I ever need to remember about Evel.
Given the information that we have, it’s pretty foolish for anybody to arbitrarily place a value on anything If Barrett Jackson’s hammer comes down at 8000 dollars, well then..hell, that’s what the thing is worth.
Or, place the thing on Ebay with a starting bid of 1 dollar. Again…see what people are willing to pay.
As for me? You’d have to pay me 125,000 to get me to be seen in this thing.
Without the extra weight you get around 8 city and up to 12 highway. Probably has the 500 ci motor.
Could Evel himself have actually motorcycle jumped this thing from end to end…? 😂
My question is, why would the Evel Knievel Museum ever want to inflict this wagon onto a member of the general public? Surely it should stay in the museum where it belongs, unless the museum is closing down?
Was the Wagon Queen Family Truckster modeled after this car?
a beast of a car but pedigree makes it a pretty cool vehicle, albeit in a butt UGLY color. Being Evel’s, it should get a red/white/blue stars and stripes repaint…
I think Robbie should buy it. Keep it in the family.
I am a total Cadillac man. However, this is one of the ugliest cars I have ever seen. Who cares if Evel’s museum owned it once. I totally understand why they sold it. I bet nobody will ever pay $95K or even close to that amount.
Hey, I’ve got an idea. Let’s ruin a Cadillac and make it into a station wagon. Now that almost RR aftermarket front grille is probably the only add on that still brings the looks home.
First of all, this is not an Eldorado wagon conversion. Eldorado was front wheel drive, two door and had their own body since 1967. This is a 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood wagon conversion.
It also is strange that it doesn’t have the clamshell tailgate which GM introduced in 1971 and ran through 1976.
Pretty car, though. Just not worth $95,000.
Nowhere does it say Eldorado. Read the title again. I do agree it’s not worth $95k no matter what it’s called or who owned it.
The 71 caddys in my opinion had a sharp looking front end on it, put this one back to stock, and you’d be doing this car some serious justice. But even after that, you’d still be looking at something not worth 100 large, maybe 15-20?
Love this big ass thing…except Evil….is that wood grain that is see….REALLY???
BAD ANALOGY.
We can value vehicles based on subjective appearance/attractiveness, but that is not a measure of worth for human beings.
I deleted my original response because it would have been censored and maybe I’d have been banned from the site.
Please find another way to express your feelings about a featured vehicle, SG. This one was very offensive, at least to me. Oh, and one of the “thumb up” votes was mine, hit in error, and unable to be retracted.
I echo your feelings DayDream!
Maybe I’ll get slammed for saying this because I’m not a member, but this is supposed to be a family site, with rules nonetheless, and yes, I feel a line has been crossed. I can’t speak for anybody else, but I don’t want my grandkids to read crap like this. I love this site, and know there’s gonna be different opinions about any given vehicle, but c’mon SG, that’s just wrong!
That is true that some get offended by a joke, but that doesn’t change the fact that I did offend some people.
Don’t forget, George Carlin was arrested right here in Milwaukee for a joke he made on stage back in the 1970’s.
At least I wasn’t arrested lol.
I apologize to anyone I offended. I would retract that statement, or at least edit it, but I have no way of doing so at this point.
If someone from the site’s administration could do so for me, I would appreciate it.
Sometimes my sense of humor gets the best of me. It is never meant to be harmful, but sometimes it happens that way.
I’m behind you SD, I find nothing offensive about anything you said. It is nice that you did apologize to anyone that may have been offended. Kind of sad…