Hello Members I have this 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz in Australia. It belonged to My dad in the 1960s and sold in the 1970s.
Through the Caddy club here I managed to track the car down, It was in a shed and had not been started in 8 years. I purchased the car and trucked it home where I started a full mechanical restoration and part body restoration with out removing the body from the frame. The car has been converted to right hand drive in the 1960s sometime and a lot of the work wasn't done to a very good standard. I have corrected all the incorrect work and brought the car to the standard a Cadillac should be. Rebuilt 365 rebuilt transmission, a complete strip and repaint of the under body and chassis and numerous other components rebuilt.
I have a new rubber splash guard kit but I'm unsure of the position of some of the pieces and wondering if anyone would have a diagram. I have a workshop manual but it doesn't show any of the slash guarding
I have tried to up load pictures with no success.
Cant wait to see a right hand drive 57 Eldo!
Congratulations on getting the car back into the Family, and good to see that you aren't trying to convert it back to LHD, as this car has history.
Does your car have a plaque with the Conversion Company attached? They usually put it on the Radiator Support Crossmember if it was done by Chappel Engineering. The other prolific converter in the 50's to the '70's was Lober Engineering.
Bruce. >:D
G'day Bruce Irwin put me onto the guy who owned the car and helped me load it onto my truck.
Thanks for the kind words, the car does have history and I intend keeping exactly the way it was!!
I have managed to source a lot of nos parts and also some good used ones. I'm happy with the progress