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schlicky13 November 5, 2012
My parents last Cadillac, a '90 Fleetwood, white with blue cabriolet top and gold emblem package. They bought it used in '97 or '98 with 150k miles on it. The got 10 years and another 100k miles out of it. It still ran (pretty damn good actually, that port fuel injection they added that year turned these things into freakin' drag cars, I can't imagine what they were like when they took them out to 4.9 liters and then added high compression heads, and it still pulled just as hard off the line as it ever had, you could burn the tires off without the slightest bit of trouble). And although it's not in the picture, possibly the rarest grill I've ever seen, a factory gold-plated one. Every Cadillac I've ever seen with the gold emblem pkg still has a chrome grill, but this was a factory gold grill (and it wasn't one of those E&G grills either, I've seen those and you can get those in gold, but this was the exact same grill that would be on the car at the dealership when it was new, but it was gold plated instead of chrome plated, had a GM part# behind it and everything) and I've never seen another like it. Unfortunately due to age and use, the grill had essentially become junk. But the frame was starting to have some severe structural issues due to rust and there was a lot of other stuff not working right on it. The funniest thing about it, the last time the exhaust needed work, dad knew the car didn't have much life left in it, so instead of forking out the $ for a new muffler, he put on a glass pack he'd had laying around from something else. The sound was pure bliss. And I think the thing I miss the most about the car, were the tires he put on it. After he'd had it awhile, the tires needed to be replaced, and Goodyear had just come out with the Aquatred's. The first generation of those had instead of a regular white wall, sort of a braided rope looking white wall. It was quite possibly the most beautiful set of tires I've ever seen put on a Cadillac, but the 1st generation has long since been discontinued and the subsequent generations don't have that (in fact I don't think they even have white walls at all on them now.) The car still sits there, waiting for me to strip it of any useful parts I can use on mine or sell, just haven't had the time to deal with it. Once I do though whatever is left will probably find its way to a scrap yard.

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