SOLD
Asking Price: $16,500
Location: Sherman, Texas
Mileage: 84,000
Title Status: Clean
VIN: 6S69B8Q484443
Seller’s Description: One of only 500 made. Single family vehicle since new. Completely optioned out from the factory including factory alarm, CB eight track am/fm radio. Garage kept its whole life. In short, a completely unmolested example of what was available in 1978. It really belongs in a collection. A car is original only once and this car is completely original.
Body Condition: This car has a slight bubbling of rust in the drivers door frame and 3 small spots where the vinyl roof meets the body. The body is perfect. Arrow straight, never been wrecked. Just as it came from the factory. Chrome is good. No rust in the quarter panels or wheel wells. Original paint color is a brown lacquer. Some minor chipping. Interior is comparable to a well cared for 3 year old car. Wear is negligible. Tan leather seats show minor wear. Original carpet is well cared for and clean. Trunk has the same factory carpet as the interior. Factory co2 inflatable spare with bumper jack. Electric antenna.
Mechanical Condition: The 350 motor runs well, spark plug electrodes are a nice caramel color. All new vacuum and thermostatic servos on the carburetor . Power steering, power brakes and AC all work well. New steering dampener. No play in the front end. Transmission is good and shifts smoothly as a Cadillac should. Brakes are 4 wheel disc. New tires. Since I purchased the vehicle I’ve put roughly 500 miles on it. Enough of a shake down that I’d be confidant to drive it anywhere in the country.
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I’ve never seen one of those Seville Opera Coupes until now. It sure is a little different looking.
The body is perfect but has rust. That is odd.
Also the car is from a single family since new but the seller just bought it. Than it is not from a single family, right?
I sort of remember a Seville Opera Coupe identical to this or possibly the same car in the dead of winter on a well salted road. Even then, I thought, if you take pride in your (new) car, why have it out on salted streets??. Just didn’t make sense then, but can account for any rust today.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/09/clueless-classics-those-deadly-glamorous-seville-conversions/#more-365901
The San Remo convertible looks nice, the rest not so much.
Does the engine/trans stay back by the firewall or move forward with the front wheels? This thing is goofy looking.
That is an interesting question.
If was not moved forward, that would make it quite difficult to service the engine.
Unmolested? I’d offer that this thing was brutally molested.
whats amazing to me is that these commanded and people payed more money for one than a regular and in my opinion nicer regular Seville! #butt ugly!
And 1 pic!!!!!!!
You don’t have to eat the whole egg to know it’s rotten.
@Joe
There are quite a few pictures just click on the “Seller’s Listing” above.
Breaker 1-9, you got the Ugly Duckling here, come on?
Wouldn’t an Opera coupe have opera windows.
What, pray tell, are “Opera” windows (besides the figment of some marketing geek’s imagination?)
Something about lipstick and a pig…
This must be the uglies Caddy that I have ever had the misfortune to view!
I don’t why you would bother pulling the spark plugs to check the color and not just reinstall new ones! What do they cost, like $2.49 each?
I don’t see where it says that they DIDN”T change them. I’m guessing that they read the plugs AS they were changing them
I wonder how many owners actually went to the opera?
The proportions are just awful and the side mounted wheels look like an afterthought; the thought being “Now where can I put these two wheels just to get rid of them?” Totally boogered up a reasonably good-looking car. I’d rather buy 16,500 Tootsie pops than buy that.
These cars just kind of annoy me. They take a well-designed, well-proportioned car and then try to make it what it isn’t. Cadillac’s of this period were never meant to be little 2 seat sport-type cars. They were luxury cars known for their ride and ‘boatiness’. It’s like if I took a ’63 split-window Corvette, cut it in half and put a 4-5 ft section in the middle for 2 more rows of seats so I could put my extended family on road trips. (and Dear God don’t tell me someone already has.) It would look God awful and i would be ashamed to be seen in it. Same thing.
Later: Why, why, why. I found this in Google. It’s a Corvette ‘America’. At least it’s not a ’63 split window. My apologies. I have to go rinse my mouth out.
Fugly
Yep you are so right
You have to have things the size of two baseballs to drive this thing in public. I admire anybody who could.
“Who’s the black private dick
That’s a sex machine to all the chicks (Shaft)
You’re damn right
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother, man? (Shaft)
Can you dig it?
Who’s the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger about? (Shaft) Right on
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother (Shut your mouth)
But I’m talking about Shaft (Then we can dig it)
He’s a complicated man but no one understands him but his woman (John Shaft).”
Mr. Shaft, your car is ready….
The person who finds this appealing absolutely does not listen to opera music.
Tremendous footroom!
Two Spare Tires!
What more could you ask?
Rare and desirable are 2 different things.
Talk about, “Pimp my ride!”
I could see Huggy Bear climbing out of this abomination.
This looks like a kit car I once saw in pimptown Miami, Florida, except the pimp car had a gold plated grill. I bought a 4 door 77 Seville for my step son in 96. It was a very nice car until a rubber fuel line ruptured catching the car on fire.
Baby blue one in Wasilla, Alaska. Previously owned by the owner of Carr’s Supermarkets. The current owner has tried to sell it for about $8000. It is now is outside in the Arctic elements. Too bad. See a lot of great cars up here from time to time.
For those special trips to Lincoln Center….
I actually own one these opera coupes and they made a total 600 mine is a 1979 car #550 I’ve had it for 20yrs and still enjoy driving it around and its a lot of attention
I wish I had the skills to turn this into a Zamboni.
Why do you hate Zambonis?
eldorado convertible says they actually made 600 of these. Prior to reading that I was goint to post that it was hard to believe they actually made and sold 500 !!!
Whether they made 500 or 600 of these atrocities is irrelevant.
One would have been too many.
Another flipper
Most unfortunately, none of us can un-see this bastardization of a fine automobile.
Laughing out loud. You guys crack me up, and I couldn’t agree more.
“bizarre and tasteless conversion”…said an automotive writer. WHY? This car is a perfect candidate to hit the junk yard and provide parts to anyone looking for cheap Cadillac replacements.
People upset about car. Why ?
I like it.
More cache than a bloody Cordoba
” Cordobas?? We don’t need no stinkin’ Cordobas!”
Obviously not a fan of “fine Corinthian leather”.
Total and complete waste of a fine automobile.
made 500, then sterilized the parents…
Hahahaha! I saw this atrocious wreck of a car and was going to say something but I think you guys hit every comment I had come to mind!
Nasty!
Take a shot! We’ll be here all week!! Badda-bing!
Oh my Lord. I read every one of the comments and never laughed so hard at the èxpense of a Cadillac.
ugh! Give me a four door standard Seville.
Oddball and different enough I’d drive it…but not for that price.
Awful. A Fright Pig for sure. Hideous conversion of a car that wasn’t that good looking to begin with, but they took bad and made it terrible.
These Seville’s never had carburetors, so if this one does, it’s been modified.
Like any medicine, it never looked good or tasted good but set you straight ! I love the sight of this car and but for the high cost , I would buy it right now !