HOW OLDE ARE WE?? Average age of CLC Members?

[TonyZappone #2624]

75 this July

can't believe it

[harry s]

I'm going to jump in at 72. Sorry for the tilt toward "Your Grandfather's Cadillac".    Harry

[camelot]

Been pounding this earth for 63 yrs in May except for the time underwater in the Navy.

["Cadillac Kid" Greg Surfas 15364]

Latest count and I am going to call it quits. Average age 53.5 years.
Members over 50 years old = 69.9%
 
Members over 60 years old = 39%

Members over 70 years old (me included) 16%

Greg Surfas

[Terry Wenger]

Hi :

I'm 72 and have been restoring Cadillacs since I was 24 years old. I joined the CLC in 1968 after reading an article by Norm Uhlir in Motor Trend.

My old Cadillacs range from '32 to '63. My everyday drivers ranged from '66 to '08, So I consider these to be "new".

I'm now looking for another "old " one to restore.

Terry Wenger
#1800

[willits]

50 with my first Cadillac at the age of 19, (the '58 which I still have). 
Peter

[blugg]

  46.....  Bought my first five cars (all Caddies 65,66,two 67, & 68) all before my 16th birthday.  Didn't even have a license yet.   All were runners, all could drive....I couldn't afford to keep them all so little by little they found new owners.   

Still have king of the road 1966 75 nine passenger sedan since 1988.  once carried 18 people just for the sake of seeing how many can fit inside.
after 40 years the TH400 trans just started to leak last year, still operational but it was time for a tear down...so I had it fully rebuilt.  Its one of those cars if the interior could talk it has 1,000s of stories to share.   its become an extension of the family.

[Blade]

45, owned the first Caddy (1973 Sedan DeVille) at 19 which I saved from the crusher. She ran for another 5 or so years including a 22 hour trip from South Dakota to Pennsylvania and back again.

[Coupe Deville]

Teenager here, 17. Guess I'm a little late to the party. I have had my 1972 Coupe Deville since I was 13. Been obsessed with Cadillac's ever since my step dad came home in a 1959 convertible when I was 5 years old. That did it right there.

[LenInLA]

Do tell how you managed to get a car - and a Cadillac - at 13! You've got to have been the youngest Cadillac owner in the country!

[quadfins]

Indeed.

Sounds like it might be a good story for the Self-Starter.

Jim

[Whit Otis, 1188]

70 here.  Cadillac lover since the day my dad came home with a 53 sedan, followed by a 55 Fleetwood (gads how I loved that car) and other Cads that followed.  First car bought at age 15 (model A Ford) and then in my 20's a Porsche fanatic before coming back to Cads.  When I pulled up at the monthly Porsche club dinner meeting in 55 75 with division window all those Porsche folks thought I had flipped out!
Whit

[veesixteen]

I caught the "Cadillac bug" at Xmas, 1955, aged 16; it was a colorful magazine ad (Nat-Geo) for the 1956 Sedan de Ville.  I bought THAT very car, my first, 11 years later. I'm now pushing 77; in 50 years I've only ever bought 9 pre-owned Cadillacs. I talk and write about them all the time (check out the club's "Cadillac Database"). My taste in "old cars" has never wavered. I was only ever limited by money ... or a regular lack of it!

[veesixteen]

Here it is; my first Cadillac, bought at Xmas 1966.

[David Greenburg]

Those Nat. Geo. ads were wonderful.  When I was about 12 i came across a bunch of issues from the early 50's to about 1970, removed all the Cadillac ads and wallpapered my room with them.  Probably contributed to my purchase shortly thereafter, at 13,  of a '59 with money saved from a paper route, as well as my ongoing obsession since then (about 45 years).   

[Josh Noiles]

Writing from Nova Scotia, Canada. I'm 28. My brother shares the same Cadillac interest and is 26. A very good friend of ours locally does too, and is 27.

[1949]

I AM 61  Bought my 1949 Fastback Club Coupe in 1974 to get
me to College . Still have it today, and love it.

[D.Smith]

49 years old for another month.   

Bought my first Cadillac at age 20.  It was a 1967 hardtop Sedan Deville that I paid $300 for.

I'm on my 17th Cadillac now. 

[n2caddies]

I will be 61 this year. Still have my first car a 28 ford model A my dad traded a unit if plywood for and gave it to me in 1969. My grandfather, grandmother, mother all drove fleetwoods.  An old hippie sign painter friend of my dad had the first 59 convertible I ever saw and it was crazy rusted but I never forgot how bitchin the old guy looked driving around in that car in a Hawaiian shirt and sun glasses. Now I'm that guy!
Randy

[D.Smith]

Writing from Nova Scotia, Canada. I'm 28. My brother shares the same Cadillac interest and is 26. A very good friend of ours locally does too, and is 27.

I love this guy!   He has restored my faith that there is hope for a younger generation to carry on the tradition and love of our Marque.     

The best thing all of us can do is adopt a younger person who loves the cars we do.   I do all I can to mentor Josh and encourage his enthusiasm in the hobby.    Plus I can rest assured that I have found the right person to inherit all my automobilia and my old Cadillac when I kick the bucket.   Something most of us try not to think about, but we should all try to plan who will treasure all our car related stuff when the time comes.   You don't want it to end up getting tossed out by some relative who doesn't know the value or of anyone interested in such things.     

So do yourself a favor and adopt a "Car Son" if you don't have one.