'67 Eldorado Purchase; Question

[Bob Hoffmann CLC#96]

Charles,
Sorry, but you are incorrect. The non vinyl cars are smooth steel. The same steel as the vinyl tops.
Bob

[joecadillac63]

I did not know that - I am not very knowledgeable about these cars yet, but will be eventually as I was with 63's!  Sounds like I better start hunting.....

[Cadillac Fleetwood]

Charles,
Sorry, but you are incorrect. The non vinyl cars are smooth steel. The same steel as the vinyl tops.
Bob

Thanks, Bob.

Charles Fares

[Flyer]

Joe- There is a salvage yard in Idaho that has a 1967 ECP on their lot. You might check with them on the window trim. L & L Classic Auto, Wendell, ID 208 536 6607. I have a 1967 that is Pinecrest Green with green interior. Check the August, 2018 Self-Starter for a picture. Good luck with the car. If I can help you in anyway send me a PM.
Hugh Dean

[joecadillac63]

Nice looking car, Hugh - and I will give the yard in ID a call.  Slim chance...but you didn't work in Orange, Texas years ago, did you?

Thanks,
Joe

[J. Skelly]

Charles,

I pulled the moldings off of a 1968 Eldorado in a Detroit junkyard several years ago.  It had a factory painted top, and the moldings are steel.  Some pieces are too rusted to use, but I thought they could at least be used for patterns if no one ever reproduces them.  Are you saying that all 1967 Eldorados used stainless steel rear window moldings?   

[Cadillac Fleetwood]

Charles,

I pulled the moldings off of a 1968 Eldorado in a Detroit junkyard several years ago.  It had a factory painted top, and the moldings are steel.  Some pieces are too rusted to use, but I thought they could at least be used for patterns if no one ever reproduces them.  Are you saying that all 1967 Eldorados used stainless steel rear window moldings?   

No.  I was not correct.  As Bob correctly stated, the non-vinyl roof cars have mouldings that are painted steel. They are not stainless. I did not proof-read what I had written, being too concerned about the plain (non-vinyl roof) versus textured (vinyl roof-equipped) mouldings.  Sorry for the confusion.

-Charles Fares

[Jerry Puma]

Congratulations on your purchase! I looked at that car last September in North Collins NY a few hours after it appeared on Craig's List. Oddly, it was listed on the Rochester NY Craig's, rather than Buffalo. In any case, it was purchased while I was making the 40 minute drive to look at it - just missed it! It had been taken off the lot, but the shop owner let me look at it anyway. I would have bought it on the spot. He said he sold it to a couple guys from Buffalo for $2900. I was surprised to see it surface on eBay being offered in Eden NY. I wonder if the original deal from September fell through?

[Glen]

The rear window molding is the same for 67 through 70 Eldorados, but as mentioned above cars with the roof covering have the roof pattern stamped into the molding.  The slick top cars have smooth moldings. 
Is it possible to put a light coat of putty on the molding to cover the stamped pattern? 

[J. Skelly]

Charles,

thanks for the clarification

Glen,

I know of a guy in the Detroit area who had the vinyl top removed from his '68.  Since he had the correct textured moldings used with the vinyl top, and the smooth moldings are about impossible to find, he had a shop mill the moldings to make them smoother.  Then the remaining texture was filled in with putty.  It was done so well that they looked like factory non-vinyl moldings.  I wonder how well the putty and paint will hold up on the moldings after a period of time.