Certainly one of Looney Tunes’ most well-known cartoons is 1950’s The Rabbit of Seville, a brief that pits Bugs Bunny towards Elmer Fudd to the tune of Rossini’s opera buffa. At present’s Good Value or No Cube Cadillac Seville may not be fairly as zany, however we’ll nonetheless need to determine if its worth bugs us.
The 2000 Bentley Arnage T Crimson Label we checked out yesterday was born in the course of the custody battle between Volkswagen and BMW over Bentley’s possession. At $29,999, our Arnage proved as interesting as weekends at Dad’s post-divorce residence, incomes a not-so-upper-crust 60 % No Cube loss.
Whereas old-school British luxurious at the price of a Camry didn’t show all that standard, let’s see how even older-school American luxurious fares at a far decrease asking.
When new, as we speak’s 1976 Cadillac Seville was Normal Motors’ reply to vehicles just like the Jaguar XJ6 and Mercedes S Class. The outside design even aped the slab sides and upright roof therapy of the up to date Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.
Cadillac described the Seville as being “internationally-sized,” debuting the Seville as a smaller and fewer ostentatious companion to the model’s extra historically sized and outfitted fashions. That didn’t cease Caddy from pricing it on the high of its lineup, guaranteeing patrons knew it was supposed to compete with the European rivals.
Our Seville, in Firehorn, over a luridly crimson leather-based and vinyl inside, nonetheless appears nearly as good as we speak because it did upon its debut in America’s bicentennial yr. There’s nonetheless sufficient chrome on the skin and fake wooden on the within to make sure folks know that is an American luxurious automobile, however its measurement and general look are toned down from different high-end fashions of the period. One extraordinarily on-point contact is the wheel and tire therapy, consisting of pretend wire covers and white sidewall Hankooks.
Underneath the hood sits a 350 CID (5.7-liter) OHV V8 sourced not from Cadillac however from Oldsmobile. Caddy did add Bosh gas injection to the engine, giving it improved driveability over the carburetor-equipped version and the chance so as to add “Gas Injection” badges on the flanks. Energy from the Olds mill is a good 180 horsepower and 275 lb-ft of torque.
Managing all that may be a three-speed TurboHydramatic 400 transmission with column shift. Entrance disc and rear drum brakes present stopping energy, and the automobile rides on coil springs throughout.
In line with the advert, all the things on this Seville works because it ought to. It comes with simply 42,000 unique miles and has been garage-kept between its odometer-advancing adventures. The vendor describes it as being in “good situation,” however the photos present a automobile that seems to be higher than that.
There don’t seem like any points with both the paint or the vinyl high, and the inside is in even higher form. It even has a set of Cadillac-crested flooring mats that look to be in wonderful situation. So far as Seventies Cadillacs go, these are about essentially the most fascinating, too. A clear title signifies that including this basic Caddy to the driveway received’t be too large a trouble. All it would take is $7,500.
Ought to anybody available in the market for some old-school American luxurious pay that a lot for this Seville? If not, why not? And in that case, the place ought to they present it off?
You determine!
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