1956 Cadillac Coupe DeVille walk around quick inspection
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- NICE original Cadillac. Never repainted, never reupholstered, totally original car. So NICE to see cars like this are still out there! Yes, this will look fantastic after we get it all cleaned up. NO we will not paint or cause any of the originality to be disturbed with the cleaning. After I give it a good safety inspection, I'll do a road test video! Thanks For Watching!
These cars may still be out there but you got extremely lucky Sir. Like hitting the lottery. The only imperfection I can see is the driver door does not line up and the paint is new on this door. Great find!
Nice nice nice. Cars such as this don't need modifications for the sake of modernism as this has all the goodies anyone really needs. So many are ruined every year. Thank goodness this one's preserved.
I do remember that color on those Cadillacs, very nice
my parents had the Sedan deVille version of this! right down to the sabre wheels and the air conditioning!! these are amazing cars!!
this car is 60 years old & it still hasn't been restored yet what a soul survivor I love the caddys from the 30s all the way from the late 70s/early 80s thats were Cadillac went down hill I wish I was around:(
My father had the exact model in the 1960's. Down to the colors. We loved opening the tailight at the gas station.
These Cadillacs were BUILT JUST LIKE MILITARY TANKS !!!
Very very beautifull...
How lucky you are to have gotten this one.
Beautiful example. I'm impressed by the condition of the driver's side seat back. My 1956 Coupe de Ville has a worn brocade seat back (midnight blue exterior, powder blue leather over brocade with silver threads interior) the metallic threads in the brocade were a design error, IMHO, though they do make for an elegant presentation. Also, a correction: there was only ONE air conditioner offered in that model. The CONTROLS are on the front lower dash, below the glove compartment and the dual-blower refrigeration unit occupied the area over the axe tunnel in the trunk. The single compressor was on the right side of the engine, opposite the power steering and power brake units and next to the fuel pump. I recall both a/c outlets on the rear hat deck were aimed such that the cold air converged on a center front passenger's head (I rode in the middle as an older kid. My car was a factory executive sale to my uncle, sold to my grandparents later and given to my Dad when my Grandfather died. It was used on the farm after an overhaul, then it was given to me. I have yet to restore it, but at least it is running and street legal, still carrying so many memories for me.
Oh so envious such a good quality example perfect. Look forward to hearing it run and see it in motion
That is a beautiful car! Great condition! Wow!
For me it is a great color, dirty greenish yellow. For my point of view, the panel and clusters are the perfection in design, normal good. I say this due the next 1959 1960 panel will be a Picasso picture, excess of design, insane tail lights and body shape, etcétera. 1956 Cadillac, Chrysler 300, Lincoln Continental have a good taste in common, I would say with feet on the ground.
As you can see, I know a lot about American cars 😋
Congrats, maaaan.
Greetings from 🇨🇱 Santiago Chile SouthAmerica
Cadillac calls this color Cape Ivory
Sir, you have a Gorgeous Car!!!! Nice
As always loved the video very informative. Word to the wise never confuse a 55 with a 56. In the way back I had an elderly gentlemen give me hell for making that mistake on his at a classic car show. 😆
I like the '54, '55 and '56 they are all beautiful
Beautiful car. Thank you so much for posting!
Again, my favorite kind of car! Hope we can have a ride some day!
Cool car
Just a beautiful example of what is still out there, love the originality of this car!! You can just notice this car has never been apart and then put back together, all the gaskets and details are there. Just great! Too bad you won't find these kind of cars in europe.
Oh and forgot to mention did cadillac really still offered to service those cars back in 1999! And do you happen to know if they still do?
Haha finally your video confirmed what i thought after all, I have a 56 cadillac 2 door series 62 and it had a restoration that did 95% of the work but the detailing is up to me. And i have been asking myself for a month or 3 if the car originally had 1 or 2 speakers. I thought it had two and the shop manual kinda confirms it but a guy who trades and restores these cars told me i was wrong and it used to have 1 speaker. And i wasn't able to find it anywhere on the internet but now i was looking close at your footage from the trunk and i saw the silver coil from the speaker. So There used to be a second 1 in the trunk, defenitely going to have chat with the guy who told my i was wrong😝
CHE OPERA D'ARTE.. W LA CADILLAC
Beautiful automobile !!!
This is the same car I had back in 66 same color and everything only difference is I didn't have the rear air conditioning I loved that car
The air conditioning unit in the trunk is not the rear air it does blow air back there but without the unit in the trunk there is no air conditioning that's how they built them back then it has just plain air conditioning
Congratulations beautiful car!
HI GOD BLESS...
SIR YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SET OF WHEELS I CANNOT SAY MORE NOTHING MORE NEED TO BE SAID. BEAUTIFUL
Sweet looking Cadillac! Beautiful condition. I like original survivors, unrestored, unmolested. I see nothing wrong with patina, as long as it doesn't penetrate into the passenger cabin, the engine compartment, or the trunk. :)
WOW! Fantastic car, how long did it take you to find it?
oops my bad!! this one doesn't have the sabre wheels...ours did!
love
CHANGE THE OIL!!!
Even has the original oil from the factory
What do we see on the end of the door? I see what I think is the door latch. Then above it, looks like a horizontal slot with something protruding from it.
I'd like to know too.
Cadillac for 1956...what can you say...a/c front and rear...and power windows...You had arrived if you could spring for a Caddy...
It's really just rear A/C. Front A/C wouldn't become available for another two years.
When one 'arrived', they did so in an Imperial.
What I'd loke to know is how does the top of the radiator tank always gets so dented up?
Mechanics lean on them.. Also place a KNEE on then when reaching to the back of engine! Poor performance from those that do it!
Did refrigerant lines from under the hood serve the rear air conditioner?
Yes, Copper tubes connect to the A/C unit in trunk.
The air conditioning unit in the car is all one unit, it is a complicated system. The car does not have separate rear and separate front air conditioning it is all one unit. However you do get air in the back of the car but it is still just one unit
How did the original jack compare to the one we see in your video?
Common bumper jack. The jack you see was much more stable.
Do you know the car''s history?
The 50s were such an elegant time. Vicious racism and segregation in the south. But man the cars were just so elegant!
Now we have vicious racism north and south. Burn Loot Murder.
America
Is there some way I can contact you? I have a 1955 Coupe DeVille in the same condition and would like to exchange some photos with you...
hey Pat take a video and post it , I'm sure we would all love to see it