My 85 Caddie DeVille is getting really long in the tooth at 180K, and to the point where I'm just not getting that comfortable trusting feeling anymore when I drive it. It's left me stranded more than a few times during the last year. It's time to donate it to a worthy cause.
As DW and I searched the local Auction for a suitable replacement we narrowed the search to mostly newer Caddies in the form of Sevilles, Devilles, and starting to see more and more Cateras, which I found myself admiring even though kinda on the small side.
However there was a Mark VIII that kept catching my eye, two of them actually last month. The black on black one with 50K was really looking fine, but of course in the end went for a chunk, far more than book in a feeding frenzy, and bunches more than my budget for a daily driver would support. The higher mileage Greenie (looks like you afficianados call it Willow Green) went for about a grand more than my admittedly conservative book estimate. The Cateras all went for too much as well (two new? German?) and JonnyM and the misses go home empty, but that's OK, we're not in a hurry, that's the only way to get a decent deal, don't buy into the type, wait for the right day, the right deal, the right price, right? Maybe...
Well sometimes fate steps in:
The next auction (twice a month here, lots of drug seizure, rental return, private party, old cop cars, quite a mix, about 300 cars each time) we're out of time, so just one month later, we're back and Mr. Willow Green M8 is back! Someone high bidded that puppy but didn't back it up with Mr. GreenBacks or Mr. LoanQualify, so we get another shot. There are also a pair of STS's and an SLS that deserve merit, but I know there going to command bigger bucks as they book for quite a bit more than the M8. I don't know why that is, but that's the KBB.com/Nada.com story on 'em.
Well as it happens, there aren't so many interested bidders in a large American luxury car that comfortable seats two, and we win the bidding for a grand less than last month, and I'm the proud owner of a 1995 Lincoln Mark VIII in Willow Green, with a Saddle Interior. Every option known to man is already built in , JBL sound system, I've counted at least 8 speaker positions so far, a factory CD changer in the trunk, and does this car travel! I didn't realize these M8's had 280HP bone stock before we bought it, I'd honestly never looked it up. I knew it would be adequate, but WOWZERS!, this thing can really get up and move. I'm thrilled. Just got the call from the Autoshop, they've went all through it and it checked out AoK, replaced just one belt, besides my preference for MobilOne Oil.
It's off to the races, figuratively speaking only.
As DW and I searched the local Auction for a suitable replacement we narrowed the search to mostly newer Caddies in the form of Sevilles, Devilles, and starting to see more and more Cateras, which I found myself admiring even though kinda on the small side.
However there was a Mark VIII that kept catching my eye, two of them actually last month. The black on black one with 50K was really looking fine, but of course in the end went for a chunk, far more than book in a feeding frenzy, and bunches more than my budget for a daily driver would support. The higher mileage Greenie (looks like you afficianados call it Willow Green) went for about a grand more than my admittedly conservative book estimate. The Cateras all went for too much as well (two new? German?) and JonnyM and the misses go home empty, but that's OK, we're not in a hurry, that's the only way to get a decent deal, don't buy into the type, wait for the right day, the right deal, the right price, right? Maybe...
Well sometimes fate steps in:
The next auction (twice a month here, lots of drug seizure, rental return, private party, old cop cars, quite a mix, about 300 cars each time) we're out of time, so just one month later, we're back and Mr. Willow Green M8 is back! Someone high bidded that puppy but didn't back it up with Mr. GreenBacks or Mr. LoanQualify, so we get another shot. There are also a pair of STS's and an SLS that deserve merit, but I know there going to command bigger bucks as they book for quite a bit more than the M8. I don't know why that is, but that's the KBB.com/Nada.com story on 'em.
Well as it happens, there aren't so many interested bidders in a large American luxury car that comfortable seats two, and we win the bidding for a grand less than last month, and I'm the proud owner of a 1995 Lincoln Mark VIII in Willow Green, with a Saddle Interior. Every option known to man is already built in , JBL sound system, I've counted at least 8 speaker positions so far, a factory CD changer in the trunk, and does this car travel! I didn't realize these M8's had 280HP bone stock before we bought it, I'd honestly never looked it up. I knew it would be adequate, but WOWZERS!, this thing can really get up and move. I'm thrilled. Just got the call from the Autoshop, they've went all through it and it checked out AoK, replaced just one belt, besides my preference for MobilOne Oil.
It's off to the races, figuratively speaking only.
:::: ) That figure is outrageous! If I was with family in somewhere like Monterrey, CA or Salem,MA that figure would be more reasonable. The other reason was Ms F--- up the wettest of dreams said while we were riding the freeway in it:"This car is exactly like the white one you just got rid of! (<-read with a very snotty,caustic voice) The " white car" referred to in that bitter spew from her wretched mouth was a '94 Thunderbird I had that sent me to the poorhouse, literally speaking.