Restoring 1979 Seville Grandeur Opera Limosine

[Douglas]

Looking for places to get some replacement parts, chrome and stainless pcs, headlamp assembly, power seat motors.......Thanks, Douglas

[Eric S. Maypother #15104]

Hi,
I would think the headlamp assembly, power seat motors would be standard 79 Seville parts, 76-79 Seville may be same. As far as the trim if it's in an extended part of car it may have to be custom fabricated.

[76Collector]

1979 Seville was the first year of the New Seat Transmission/Motor.  Previous year model Sevilles are not compatible and totally different.  Most likely your Seat Transmission has failed which is most common problem with this type.  These are now very rare and hard to find.  I saw some on ebay now under item # 290842520899.   Most items can be found from sellers on ebay.  I have restored a few cars and found great sellers there with hard to locate items.  We don't get to see those too often so it's good to hear you are restoring such a beautiful car and keeping it up! 

[Gene Beaird]

Exactly what part of the 'headlamp assembly' are you looking for?  Just the headlamp bucket the headlamp bolts directly to, or the plastic header that the headlamp bucket and the outside trim bolts to? 

If it's the header assembly, as I call it, those are also supposedly redesigned for the 1979 model year.  Almost ALL of the replacements you find, regardless of year, will be broken.  I repaired the broken ones on our 79 Seville with a fiberglass repair kit.  I did glue the broken pieces back together with 2-part epoxy, and then laid some fiberglass cloth over the surface.  After everything had set and cured, I painted them with some semi-gloss black paint. 

It seems to have held up so far, although the car is definitely NOT a daily-driver.  The panels have survived a rather hard hood slamming episode, so I'm so far, pretty pleased with the work.  It won't pass a concourse inspection, but I have headlights that aren't suffering from the typical Cadillac 'droopy-light' syndrome (I also had to replace _every_ headlight adjuster after the PO thought it a good idea to readjust the lights).  So far, so good. 

[rob123]

I can do headlamp assemblies, seat motor, seat trans from genuine 79 Seville.  What other parts do you need.

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