Days Long Gone - 1960 Cadillac

[veesixteen]

Thanks to Ron Melville, editor of "FINZ", the magazine of New Zealand's Cadillac Club, for publishing the story of "Lavender Lily", our former 1960 Eldorado Seville.
Fond memories of days long gone!

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[Roger Zimmermann]

Yann, thanks for those pictures! Obviously, you had longer hair than now!

[Jon S]

A beautiful car

[76eldo]

The 60 Seville is a beautiful car.
That color is beautiful.

Question, is a full leather interior rare on one of these cars? Most Seville’s they I see are a combination of cloth and leather.

Mine is all leather like a Biarritz. How unusual is that ?

[rwchatham CLC 21892]

The 60 Seville is a beautiful car.
That color is beautiful.

Question, is a full leather interior rare on one of these cars? Most Seville’s they I see are a combination of cloth and leather.

Mine is all leather like a Biarritz. How unusual is that ?

Standard interiors on a 60 Seville had 4 interior choices in cloth and leather and 3 choices in all leather , one of them being the red and white that is on your car .

[76eldo]

Thanks Ray

Many that I see have cloth and leather. Personally I like the all leather in red and white. I spoke to one of the upholstery shops that I deal with about doing the Viodec top which involves removing a lot of molding and the front and back glass. There are only two people that I would trust to work on this car and he is one of them. So now the plan is to get that part done and also get it painted. Then it’s going to be a keeper for me. I was toying with selling it because I didn’t want to deal with taking all of the greenhouse moldings off of it but now that this guy has agreed to do it I’m going to go for it.

Brian

[rwchatham CLC 21892]

Brian , now all we have to do is to get you to put the original motor back in that thing ! If it’s a keeper might as well put the born with block back in it 👍

[76eldo]

That’s a possibility.
The drivetrain in it is from a 23,000 mile 60 Seville. It’s totally correct In every way.
I saw the car it came out of and it’s legit. For the sake of the numbers on the block I’m not sure I’m that interested but you never know.

[dinhnguyen57]

What is the cost for the top replacement, may I ask?

[76eldo]

I won’t know until it’s done. At least $2000.