I was talking about these specific engines because these cars all have them. I still see tons of them. We even had one at the shop to fix the quarter a month ago. A really clean car and the old guy paid to have the dent fixed because he loves that car. I'm now going to keep an eye out for a nice one with blown head gaskets just for fun. I think I'll wait for a coupe.
Usually this was only encountered after rebuilding the heads because the soft cast heads wore out real fast in the holes for the valve stems. You jerk them off reface them and the seat and reinstall the heads, snugging those bolts down. Ha! it last maybe 3, 4 weeks and you were done.
This one is beautiful. Looks like the owner just paid big bucks to have a new engine installed not too long ago and the car only has 40k on it. Yikes. https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cto/d/beverly-hills-cadillac-eldorado-etc-1997/6780782741.html Love to find that exact car for cheap with bad head gaskets.
Unfortunately, he totaled the Aston. He was driving somewhere early one Sunday morning with my nephew, and came to a stop at the intersection SB on 136th Ave, turning EB onto Mill Plain Blvd. When the light turned green, he set off through the intersection in the turn, lost control (more on that in a minute), spun out, hopped the curb in front of the Wells Fargo and absolutely destroyed a bus stop that was there. Nobody was hurt, and thank God nobody was at the bus stop at the time. It really messed my father up mentally and emotionally though. He had flash-backs to his first wife drowning; that sort of thing. He needed a while with his counselor and some medication monitoring. But he's okay now. It turns out the tires were absolute crap. Cheap, no-name-brand Bangladeshi-made tires that weren't very grippy. Something which I pointed out to him the first day I saw the car (about the country of origin of the tires....I had never heard of reputable tires coming from Bangladesh). Of course, we couldn't prove this, but considering the road conditions were dry, and the tires were warm, then I'm not sure what else it could have been. He swears he didn't gun the car during the turn, and considering how careful he is around his 12 year-old grandson, then I believe him. And considering he was never cited, then I must assume the officers felt the same way. The passenger side was fine. He had it towed up to an exotic car dealership in Seattle that was working on bits of his car at the time (new roof pistons), along with his insurance agent, and it just wasn't worth repairing. I loved that car. Sigh. Oh yes. We have a good shop near us that my father likes to take the car to. I also take it up to Valvoline, and they do all the works. I'm going to look into this, thanks.
I'm glad your father and your nephew were okay but seeing the car like that makes me very sad. I never put questionable tires on my cars. My wife had some retreads from the previous owner on her T-Bird and had a blow out which spun her car around and she totaled it on a freeway guard rail. Lost the car and the state of Washington charged us for a new guard rail, about $5,000. I always put Michelins on my cars. I used to use Pirellis but lost big chunks of rubber on the freeway so never use those. I've also had issues with Firestone. Had good luck with Toyos and Dunlops but settled on Michelins because of the quality and they grip better than any other tire I've tried except for the Pirellis on a dry road.
Yeah, we spoke about the tires on the car the day after he got his CSL 550 while we were driving around town, and surmised that the poor tires must have been the cause of the crash. In his defense, he didn't put the tires on. They came already on the car. Likely just the dealership being cheap and slapping any ol' tires on there. Considering my father found the car while it was on display at the Portland Auto Show, it was likely done up more for looks as a show car than function. The paint, for instance, was a one-off $15,000 Porsche-yellow paint job. And the TSW rims certainly weren't stock. Our first and only trip to Cars & Coffee before the accident: SIGH! I loved that car.
We went with an aftermarket stereo system that included a Kenwood DVD head unit, Phoenix Gold amps, Boston separates in the front along with a 12" Oz Matrix subwoofer. Nothing outrageous but a very clean and solid sounding system.
Sounds nice! I don't need a DVD player though, and probably not the speakers replaced (though I wouldn't object to it). But I would definitely like an updated stereo.
A simple upgrade is with a head unit (that way you can get your blue tooth capability) and then run speaker wires from the head unit to the front and rear speakers and then use the sub output from the deck to an amp in the trunk that powers the subwoofer. The install I did on my sons Caddy included a custom made rack for the trunk that housed the main amp and sub amps. You can easily do it for under $500 and with carefully purchased used amp and sub it can likely be done for closer to $300 and the sound will be improved immensely.
No amount of bondo is gonna make your son's piece of shit rent a rim cadillac worth more than 1500. Or keep it out of the junkyard like all of these (not wrecked) Those powerlines in the background right above your house?
Now that really hurts, although I'm pleased you compare us to victims of Bundy that he loved. You were one of my favorite ass holes.
So I just set up the appointment with my Urologist. We're gonna go in there and take a look on the 22nd of April at 1:45.
@SlyPokerDog DID YOU HEAR THAT, SLY? I'M A FAVORITE ASSHOLE! You'll NEVER be ANYONE'S favorite asshole, Sly!
I once bled from my dick. Turns out it was from passing a kidney stone with little jagged tiny arrow heads made out of some form of crystal made by uric acid.
I make no promises.... But you know, the first thing they did when I first called them back in February, after consulting the doctor while setting up my insurance, was to tell me that if this was an STD, I should go to my primary care doctor. Not very flattering.
