Restoration of a 1958 Cadillac Extended Deck Sedan

Our week­end was a washout.… I know many parts of the Coun­try are in severe drought con­di­tions, but we have had quite enough, Thank You, go on and help some­one else now.

We were look­ing for­ward the the Shriner’s Melha Vin­tage Auto Show, but it was not meant to be. Rained out both Sat­ur­day and Sun­day. The rain also kept us away from the Our Lady of the Blessed Sacra­ment Char­ity Car Show on Sun­day.
Busy week com­ing up though, we are going to try to do the Cruise Night spon­sored by the Elks in Lud­low, Tues­day night and another spon­sored by the Moose Lodge in Chicopee on Thurs­day night all weather per­mit­ting of course. We just found out that we also need to be at But­tery Brook Park right here in South Hadley on Fri­day night too, because they are doing a spe­cial award that hon­ors past show win­ners. We get to go in the line-up with other pre­vi­ous show win­ners and be judged by the atten­dees! Come on down and vote for us.……

Sat­ur­day, if we are not to exhausted, we’ll be at “The Cars Are The Stars” event in Somers, CT. and Sun­day at the CT Children’s Place in East Wind­sor, CT., both ben­e­fit shows for great causes.

Fin­gers crossed for good weather.….…..

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Or that is what every­one is say­ing.…. After yesterday’s fiasco, Mary Lee and I went up to Cruise Night at the Knight’s Of Colum­bus last night.  It was a short field with about 50 cars due to the 95+ degree heat.  The evening started out well, but they had to cut it short and abbre­vi­ate the award pre­sen­ta­tions when the dark clouds rolled in and thun­der could be heard in the dis­tance, it was only a week ago under sim­i­lar weather con­di­tions that the tor­nado struck just a few miles away.  Remark­able sound when you hear about 2 dozen clas­sics all fir­ing up at the same time and try­ing to squeeze out the small entry and get home.  We made it back to the barn before the real storms began.……

Alright, I won’t keep you in sus­pense any longer, the “Gray Lady” won first place, best in show!  She’s still bat­ting a thou­sand, with 4 awards in 4 events, how­ever, we did have to scratch, claw and climb our way up past a really nice 1930 Rolls Royce to get there.  OK, I promise this is it for a while, I’m not going to post any more show results on an event by event basis, I’ll do it once a Month to recap events.  Although you can’t really blame me for brag­ging a lit­tle, can you?  It has been a cou­ple year process, with more than 3000 hours invested and mucho dinero to get us here.  Vin­di­ca­tion is sweet, can you see the big grin on my face as I write?

Hon­estly, I didn’t take on this project with awards in mind, and in fact never expected them, because younger crowds tend to grav­i­tate more towards the ’60 era mus­cle cars.  The Caddy gen­er­ates a tremen­dous amount of atten­tion where ever she goes pri­mar­ily because there are never any on dis­play.  I’ve seen just a cou­ple 1959’s over the years, but in fact have not yet seen another 1958 in at least the last 2 years.  I did meet a guy who is restor­ing a 1958 Series 60 Fleet­wood Spe­cial, but it won’t be done until some­time next year.

If you are local and want to visit, we’ll be at the 31st Annual Melha Shriners Clas­sic Car Show at the Moose Lodge in Chicopee on Sat­ur­day.  It is a fundraiser for the Shriner’s Hos­pi­tal For Chil­dren surely a good cause, stop by and say hello.

Till then.….….….…..

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We had a nice day out in Feed­ing Hills yes­ter­day attend­ing the 13th Annual Clas­sic Car Show spon­sored by the Pio­neer Val­ley GTO Asso­ci­a­tion. There were some real nice cars rep­re­sented there. Best in show was a ’61 Ply­mouth Savoy, and I was thrilled to see a col­lec­tion of many vin­tage Sta­tion Wag­ons. I was also impressed by a pair of Lin­coln Mark v con­vert­ibles, one a ’58 and the other a ’60. We won a top 50 award,  but I’m not sure they really knew how to deal with us. They had top awards for Chevy, Ford, Mopar, Oldsmo­bile & Buick, and as usual no Cadil­lac award though in fair­ness there were only two on the field, mine and a ’76 Eldo Con­vert­ible. Seems like with a Caddy you either com­pete on a con­cours level with the mega dol­lar cars or take your chances in the field with the mul­ti­tude of 50’s era Chevy’s, there is no real place for us. We gen­er­ated an awful lot of atten­tion from many who had never seen a car like her, it was great weather, a fine day and a great time was had by all.…..

Next week we attend the 31st Annual Melha Shriners Vin­tage Auto Show, see you then.….…..

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Mary Lee and I attended the sea­son opener cruise night at But­tery Brook.  Met many old friends and made some new ones, there were many cars on dis­play.  The “Gray Lady” attracted much atten­tion as evi­denced by:

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