Changed plugs n wires today

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Stubbe
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Re: Changed plugs n wires today

Postby Stubbe » Fri May 30, 2014 3:37 pm

Wow Otto love the Caddy. when I was a little kid my dad was the service manager at the last Cadillac distributorship in the US and we had a 55 Coupe Deville, The old man that owned the place ordered an extra back seat bottom and had it customized to fit and make a bed out of the back seat so us kids could sleep on long trips. loved that car!!


Then Grandpa picked me up one day and we went to a place called Lindahl Olds where they had a Gold loaded 66 Toro for display only :) well after a few hours of Grandpa wearing him down.. we had it and I fell in love with another car :)
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Re: Changed plugs n wires today

Postby Otto Skorzeny » Fri May 30, 2014 4:01 pm

That's pretty cool. My girlfriend can sleep in the backseat on long trips. She's 5 feet nothing and lay back there without scrunching up.

It's funny that a two door coupe is longer than a modern Lincoln Town Car and as wide as a HumVee.

'57 Chevy's look like Toyota Camry's parked next to that car. It's also a lot better on fuel than the Toronado. On my trip to Tampa at Christmas I averaged 15mpg at an average speed of 76mph. That was with two bikes on a rack and the trunk loaded to the gills.

Without all that extra crap I can get 17-18 mpg. (365cid V8 300hp)
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