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1963 station wagon

Started by Mike Patla #23389, May 30, 2014, 06:51:16 PM

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Eric DeVirgilis CLC# 8621

The bigger question is whether the short deck was specified for the conversion. It's difficult to imagine a short deck model would have been selected at random...
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russ austin

Since the conversion was at the time of the cars birth, it's a forgivable and cool conversion. It probably fits the length of the new roof and was chosen just for that.  Now to part out a 63 Park Avenue today would be foolish.
R.Austin

jwwseville60

The elderly man I met in 2017 at the VA Caddy Nats told me there were two 1963 Caddies that were converted in NJ. Both were brand new.
He worked for Winthorpe Rockefeller and drove both cars he said.
I have this guy's name written down somewhere.
1960 Eldorado Seville, Copper, "IKE"
1961 CDV, gold, "Goldfinger"
1964 Eldorado, Turquoise, "Billy the Squid"
1963 De Ville Station Wagon Vista roof, silver blue, "Race Bannon"
1963 Fleetwood 60S, turquoise, "The Miami Special"
1959 Sedan Deville flat top, tan, "Jupiter-2"
1947 Caddy Sedanette 62, black, "Johnny Cash"
1970 ASC Fleetwood wagon, dark blue, "Iron Maiden"
Lifetime CLC

Jason Edge

John, I would really love to do a full cover feature of this car in our 1963/64 Cadillac Chapter newsletter. In fact we could do a 3 Part Segment: 1) The way you received it and include some history of the car 2) In Progress Upgrades/Restoration (current status) and 3) The Finished Product. 

For you or any of our Chapter members all I need to do a full cover feature is 8 to 12 good pictures, 500 words or more of text covering any angle of the car (i.e. history, restoration, car event, etc).  You can of course include much more as we have run some really nice in-depth feature stories over the years.  At a minimum we have got to do a cover feature once it is complete!  I love the color and love what you are doing with it. You started with an interesting Caddy Wagon but this is really going to be nice.

I have a feature Caddy for our next newsletter due out around May 1, but any month after that is open right now.
If and when you want to do a feature, shoot me some pics and write-up to jasonedge@nc.rr.com   
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jwwseville60

63 Park Ave in blue.

1960 Eldorado Seville, Copper, "IKE"
1961 CDV, gold, "Goldfinger"
1964 Eldorado, Turquoise, "Billy the Squid"
1963 De Ville Station Wagon Vista roof, silver blue, "Race Bannon"
1963 Fleetwood 60S, turquoise, "The Miami Special"
1959 Sedan Deville flat top, tan, "Jupiter-2"
1947 Caddy Sedanette 62, black, "Johnny Cash"
1970 ASC Fleetwood wagon, dark blue, "Iron Maiden"
Lifetime CLC

jwwseville60

#65
First test drive at White Post Restorations.
Still needs a few things done.
Dusty and dirty.

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1960 Eldorado Seville, Copper, "IKE"
1961 CDV, gold, "Goldfinger"
1964 Eldorado, Turquoise, "Billy the Squid"
1963 De Ville Station Wagon Vista roof, silver blue, "Race Bannon"
1963 Fleetwood 60S, turquoise, "The Miami Special"
1959 Sedan Deville flat top, tan, "Jupiter-2"
1947 Caddy Sedanette 62, black, "Johnny Cash"
1970 ASC Fleetwood wagon, dark blue, "Iron Maiden"
Lifetime CLC

Cadillac Jack 82

Wow!  I love it even more than I did before the resto!
Tim

CLC Member #30850

1959 Cadillac CDV "Shelley"
1964 Cadillac SDV "Rosalie"
1966 Oldsmobile Toronado "Sienna"

Past Cars

1937 LaSalle Cpe
1940 Chevrolet Cpe
1941 Ford 11Y
1954 Buick 48D
1955 Cadillac CDV
1955 Packard Clipper
1957 Cadillac Series 62
1962 VW Bug
1962 Dodge 880
1966 Mercury Montclair
1967 Buick Wildcat Convertible
1968 Chevy Chevelle SS
1968 Plymouth Barracuda
1977 Lincoln MKV

jwwseville60

By the way, FYI.
This is the only other 1963 station wagon I can find that exists today. It sold at auction 3 years ago and has a Chevy roof.

63 caddy waggy green2.jpeg
1960 Eldorado Seville, Copper, "IKE"
1961 CDV, gold, "Goldfinger"
1964 Eldorado, Turquoise, "Billy the Squid"
1963 De Ville Station Wagon Vista roof, silver blue, "Race Bannon"
1963 Fleetwood 60S, turquoise, "The Miami Special"
1959 Sedan Deville flat top, tan, "Jupiter-2"
1947 Caddy Sedanette 62, black, "Johnny Cash"
1970 ASC Fleetwood wagon, dark blue, "Iron Maiden"
Lifetime CLC

jwwseville60

#68
Almost done.
We had to locate a new 429 block and do another rebuild. (.30 over).
Ported heads with 3 angle job are fine. We swapped them on.
It's running well.
The outsourced engine shop ruined the last block when they bored it, thus it burned serious oil.
The shop is now kaput.

1960 Eldorado Seville, Copper, "IKE"
1961 CDV, gold, "Goldfinger"
1964 Eldorado, Turquoise, "Billy the Squid"
1963 De Ville Station Wagon Vista roof, silver blue, "Race Bannon"
1963 Fleetwood 60S, turquoise, "The Miami Special"
1959 Sedan Deville flat top, tan, "Jupiter-2"
1947 Caddy Sedanette 62, black, "Johnny Cash"
1970 ASC Fleetwood wagon, dark blue, "Iron Maiden"
Lifetime CLC