We won't talk about the trip to the gas station today. Instead, we'll talk about the heater hoses that leak where they connect to the core. Bad core? Bypass for now. Got an aftermarket air cleaner to fit the E/C carb, tweaked the timing and piddled away the day on miscellaneous stuff.

Worked on getting the engine to smooth out and was finally successful. Along the way, a new Pertronics electronic ignition went in along with a fresh cap and rotor. Fresh plugs too for good measure. But none of those things did the trick, of course. When I was just about ready to go for a timing chain set, I thought that first I should try putting the original carb back on. The seller said it had worked but the accelerator pump wasn't right so put this Edelbrock/Carter on instead. I figured at least if the symptoms changed, I'd know I was on the right track. So I pulled the E/C carb off and was starting to transfer the fittings over to the original when I realized there was a chunk missing from the gasket. Thinking I might have found something, I went and looked at the manifold. There was a chunk missing there too... not on the manifold itself, as I thought at first, but on this phenolic spacer, right between the exhaust crossover and the right primary venturi! OMG! The exhaust is getting sucked in there big time! A quick trip to Coopers provided three gaskets and two shims to approximate the same thickness as the broken phenolic spacer and PRESTO, she purrs like a kitten, has excellent vacuum and starts right up! Problem solved. I phoned the seller to let him know and he was genuinely pleased. Man am I relieved!

[113591] It's beginning to look like I bought this car!

eBay

2007-04-11 or so: I saw an ad on ebay... that's fairly typical of the way this crap starts.

Previous Owners and History

Chad Hefty of Alpine, California

I bought the car from Chad. He bought the Cadillac with eight other cars to help a friend/widow whose husband (see below) had collected the cars. She is all orginal except she was painted once upon a time. Has Oregon plates as the widow and her late husband had a second home there. Chad replaced the brake booster with a rebuilt and replaced the carb with an Edelbrock, but is selling the car with the original carb also. Odometer read 13591 miles as of the placement of the eBay ad.    

Larry and Lucille Kocks of Eugene, Oregon

Last known registration good from 03/21/2001 to 03/31/2003. Oregon plate number CSW918. Larry *may* have passed away on Thursday, July 28, 2005 in Eugene. Looks to have been around 70.