I have loved many cars, most of them I no longer own. When I was in highschool I had pictures of 60’s Camaro’s all over my bedroom walls. Later in life I was restoring classics for a living and it seemed like I was restoring the same 10 cars over and over. Camaros, mustangs, chevelles, corvettes and so on. My love began to fade as they became routine and even cliche. Every Chevy I worked on had an “SS” on it and every owner thought it was the only one left on the planet! Every once in a while, however, someone would bring in something exciting and new, something truly unique; a ford starliner on a police interceptor chassis or a custom GMC fire truck. Thus my tastes evolved, I became obsessed with the odd car, the Studebaker, the La Salle, the Borgward! I forsook the value of 2 doors for the luxury of 4. I became enamored with the in line 6 and the straight 8. Now I sell cars that I love to buy cars that I have never heard of.

This is not merely a glimpse into my history, but an explanation into why you will most likely stop hearing about a promising project right when it starts getting good. Indeed it is an explanation as to why there will be no further mention of the 66 Chevy truck or the 71 VW campmobile. They’re gone. You see, there is always a better car out there and I found it.

My Jeep and I in Ocotillo

I have never been loyal to any make or mark of car but in recent years have become enamored with Cadillacs. I once got a free lincoln town car, traded it for a ’73 postal jeep, traded the jeep for a 1970 Cadillac fleetwood, then traded a (free) chrysler concorde for the jeep again. I started with 2 free crappy late model sedans and ended up with 2 unique older cars both of which I still own. I just couldn’t bring myself to part with the Cadillac. A few months ago I was scrolling through Craigslist and happened across a 1964 Cadillac presidential limousine, it’s now my daily driver. The point is, lots of cars come and go but the Cadillacs have remained.

The Limousine

I recently happened upon a car that was valuable, precious and available. I immediately sold the volkswagen and chevy so I could get it. You see sometimes members of the fleet must be sacrificed in pursuit of the white whale. I would have loved to offer you the big reveal of putting a cadillac V8 into the VW  but instead I will be putting a Cadillac V8 into the new flagship of my fleet: a 1941 Cadillac 60 special fleetwood. OK the metaphor was mixed, how can it be a ship and a whale? Anyway the thing is SWEET!

The 1941 60s Fleetwood

I hope you walk with me through process of restoring it from the ground up and seeing it turn from a hunk of metal sitting behind a garage since 1966, into a beautiful piece of old fashioned craftsmanship back on the road where it belongs. Step 1: get to work on my ford fairlane. Wait, what? That’s right, there’s a 64 fairlane in my garage  that will need to be finished before the Cadillac can be properly taken care of, so if you’re excited to read about the Cadillac you’ll have to wait! Haha! Bait and switch! The fairlane is completely de-trimmed; a rolling body. The whole thing has been sand blasted inside, outside, top and bottom. The car sits in primer with the bodywork partially completed.

Time to get to work!

All right rustlovers, time to get off of the computer and into the Garage!