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Title: 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special Brougham
Post by: Larry on January 22, 2006, 09:41:57 AM
This car has a 500 engine but nowhere does it state the C.C.  Can you help please?
Title: Re: 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special Brougham
Post by: Barry M. Wheeler #2189 on January 22, 2006, 07:15:25 PM
I think this was commonly known as the 8.0 litre engine. Exact is 8.193532. Put your decimal point where you wish to get the cc. (Conversion is 500 x 16.387064.) Hope this helps.
Title: Re: 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special Brougham
Post by: Michael Stamps 19507 on January 22, 2006, 11:14:51 PM
Its a 8.2 and the 472 is a 7.7.  The quick and easy way is CI / 61 = CL or CL x 61 = CI.  Hope that makes sense and is easy as you just have to remember the number 61.

Stampie
Title: Re: 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special Brougham
Post by: denise 20352 on January 24, 2006, 11:52:15 AM

  I just have to ask...why would you want to know that?

  I think it was 1977 when they starting using the metric system, which resulted in a car that had some metric and some standard bolts.  My 78 Deville was that way, and that was one of the things that influenced my decision to part it out.

-d
Title: Re: 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special Brougham
Post by: Larry M. Furlong on January 24, 2006, 02:44:26 PM
Hello Denise,


Greetings from Liverpool, England - home City of The BEATLES (Im sure you may have heard of them !!!)

For 40 years I have just loved American cars especially Cadillac. I have only recently imported my latest car direct from Los Angeles and the UK Department of Motor Vehicles requires the CC details for registration.

I am delighted with my new aquisition which is a little different from the 76 standard Cadillacs. All Black and lots of chrome, it is a real prize, and Im sure would turn heads even on the streets of good old U.S. Sold and first registered by the Hillcrest Motor Company of Beverly Hills I would of course love to trace its ownership history.

Kind Regards


Larry (From the mother country)  



























































































Title: Re: 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special Brougham
Post by: wm link on January 24, 2006, 11:36:16 PM
The 1970 Eldorado had an 8.2 litre badge on the grill...so started the trend away from C.I.D. on Cadillacs...
Title: Re: 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special Brougham
Post by: bruce joslen on March 29, 2007, 11:04:12 AM
hi  Larry,
       I have a 78 Hillcrest limo and am also
  experiencing problems in trying to trace any
 information  on  owners, or even  Hillcrest themselves.
       imported  it  into  New Zealand  in  2004.
                 cheers,  Bruce.