News:

Please view the post in the Forum Support forum, it has a poll about making a dark mode (i.e. dark color screens instead of bright white) available. This can be of interest for those that access the forums from a mobile device as dark screens use less battery power. But we need to know whether enough people want this before investing the time to install an extra mode.

Main Menu

1973 Coupe deVille parts needed

Started by 35-709, May 07, 2012, 09:57:13 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

35-709

Does anyone have a source for the rear bumper cushions indicated in the pages below from my parts book?  I have 2 '73 Coupes and the rear bumper cushions described below are completely missing from both cars.  Anyone else come up against this?  What was your solution, just find some large hunks of scrap rubber and make something up?  Replace the (missing) cushions with  steel spacers?  Would rather have the correct part, new, re-popped, or excellent used if it is available somewhere but am open to suggestions.  I need 2 of each one.
Haven't seen these cushions in the Steele Catalog, USA Parts, OPGI, nor McVey's.   Thanks for any help you can provide.
1935 Cadillac Sedan resto-mod "Big Red"
1973 Cadillac Caribou - Sold - but still in the family
1950 Jaguar Mark V Saloon resto-mod - Sold
1942 Cadillac 6269 - Sold
1968 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible - Sold
1950 Packard 2dr. Club Sedan
1935 Glenn Pray - Auburn Boattail Speedster, Gen. 2

Mike Josephic CLC #3877

Try USA Parts.  They reproduce many of these pieces.  I purchased several
rubber bumper strips from them for my 1973 Eldorado and found the quality
and fit were perfect.

They are on line at:  http://www.usapartssupply.com/cadillac.php

Mike
1955 Cadillac Eldorado
1973 Cadillac Eldorado
1995 Cadillac Seville
2004 Escalade
1997 GMC Suburban 4X4, 454 engine, 3/4 ton
custom built by Santa Fe in Evansville, IN
2011 Buick Lucerne CX
-------------------------------------
CLCMRC Museum Benefactor #38
Past: VP International Affiliates, Museum Board Director, President / Director Pittsburgh Region

35-709

#2
Thank you, Mike.  In the last sentence of my post I mentioned that USA Parts (among others) does not have what I am looking for.
 
To clarify, the rubber cushions I need are NOT the rubber strips that go in the bumper face, those would be #2 in the parts book illustration I included.  GM calls those a "pad" and are part number 160112. 

I need the rubber cushions that go between the bumper and the bumper mount (#31 in the illustration, 1 each side, part number 1601221) and the rubber cushions that go between the bumper ends (taillight housings) and their upper mount (#10 in the illustration, 1 each side, part number 1601303).

From my limited experience I would venture to say that a lot of '73 RWDs and Eldos are out there without those rubber cushions.  They deteriorate and fall away.  These cushions are what give the rear bumper its "energy absorbing" claim.
 
1935 Cadillac Sedan resto-mod "Big Red"
1973 Cadillac Caribou - Sold - but still in the family
1950 Jaguar Mark V Saloon resto-mod - Sold
1942 Cadillac 6269 - Sold
1968 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible - Sold
1950 Packard 2dr. Club Sedan
1935 Glenn Pray - Auburn Boattail Speedster, Gen. 2

Mike Josephic CLC #3877

Sorry -- I didn't catch that.

The rear bumper rubber cushions on my '73 Eldo I cleaned up and reused.
They were not that bad.  Cleaning them up and and good soaking in
Armour All renewed them enough to reinstall. 

They were part of the "energy absorbing bumper system" that the goverment
mandated that year.

If USA doesn't have them and Steel and the others that you mentioned I
am at a loss.  The only other possibility is a salvage yard (somebody like
Honest John's Caddy Parts).  He is a Club member and has acres full of old
Caddy's in Texas.

Mike

1955 Cadillac Eldorado
1973 Cadillac Eldorado
1995 Cadillac Seville
2004 Escalade
1997 GMC Suburban 4X4, 454 engine, 3/4 ton
custom built by Santa Fe in Evansville, IN
2011 Buick Lucerne CX
-------------------------------------
CLCMRC Museum Benefactor #38
Past: VP International Affiliates, Museum Board Director, President / Director Pittsburgh Region

35-709

Thank you again, Mike, I'll try Honest John and a few of the other salvage yard guys.
1935 Cadillac Sedan resto-mod "Big Red"
1973 Cadillac Caribou - Sold - but still in the family
1950 Jaguar Mark V Saloon resto-mod - Sold
1942 Cadillac 6269 - Sold
1968 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible - Sold
1950 Packard 2dr. Club Sedan
1935 Glenn Pray - Auburn Boattail Speedster, Gen. 2