Before the CTS came along Caddy had never made a wagon. All the Caddy wagons before the CTS were made by coachbuilders after the fact. Just like Buick never made a GNX and Pontiac never made a Firehawk.
I accidentally seen this car in person on my travels for work. It was in Chicago Heights, IL. I stopped to look at a truck for sale at some Spiritual Healer business. The truck wasn't what I wanted and was a good 50 footer at 55 mph. Anyway someone was reassmebling this car by the building and this Guy "Ricky" was telling me he found this proto type Caddy in WI next to a barn. I ask if h minded if I took a look at it. He said go ahead. his cousin was putting it back together. It's not pretty. The new paint job is horrible. Runs everywhere. Large runs. I asked if someone locally painted it and said a friend did it in his garage. That was as I was watching the cousin scrape all of the moldings with a razor blade and steel wool. He said that he has a cash price right now to drive away with it. I wasn't even close to being interested but he told me $15,000 right now. I did declined. That car is a piece of crap and a poor conversion of some sort. He kept telling me Fisher did it as a factory conversion. I don't believe it. The roof where they spliced it in at the pillars is real rough looking etc. The moldings are all damaged. The pictures make it look way better than it really is.
Thanks Brian :TU: You just saved a Canadian board member over at the StationWagonForums some time and money: Click here :Comp: Earlier today he wrote: And right after reading your "review": :beer
I'm known for telling it the way it is! It's just a conversation piece of a car. Not a good conversation but just a piece!
id say some type of hearse/flower car....looks like the caddy hearses of the day, just a 2 door, not a 4 door... ive been in the factory where they used to make them..in st louis....they put them on a jig that had wheels and locks on a track simular to a train track..cut it in half and spread it as long or as short as you wanted..then they had metal men that would make the sides from scratch..thats a lost art right there, they had breaks and presses and an english wheel and planishing hammers..really artisans...
Crazy how dishonest people are in this world anymore. Coincidence that there are no rear seat area pictures? Maybe I am just assuming but you would think that the seller would show the uniqueness of that part of his conversion. Err I mean "prototype". I wonder what "paperwork" he supposedly has with it.
GM would never have used flat side glass for something like this, and if the rear glass had been an off the shelf item it would have fit better and been a better match for the shape of the rear. Look how good a fifth gen g-body wagon looks compared to that crap. I doubt even a professional car builder would have been that sloppy. Twenty years ago I looked at a mid '70s Lincoln pickup that was made from a town car and the bed of a 67-72 Chevy truck- cut open the Lincoln from the front seat back; sunk in the bed, filled the gaps with bondo. Made the back of the cab from plywood painted body color, and tried to tell me it was a factory experimental. He didn't like my response. Patrick.
This car is only about 10-15 minutes from me but I have never seen it. Google the guys phone # in the CL ad to see what else comes up. Very interesting..................
I always wonder when I read something like that: 10 to 15 minutes walking ? On a bicycle ? With public transport ? In a car ? How do I know how fast you are driving or walking o No: ? Maybe it's better to put the distance in your message :TU: Yeah , I know: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
