1973 Cadillac Calais
1973 Cadillac Calais is the new Bonez ride. This car run and drives beautifully but the body has alot of rust. We are going to make a trailer hitch, repair the exhaust system, a full tune up, new HEI distributor, I also have some Cragar S/S rims and new tires for her and she will be back on the road. Later on we will replace the steering linkage and the brakes. The next stage will be to get her all lettered with the Bonez Garage logos.
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1973 Cadillac Calais is the new Bonez ride. This car run and drives beautifully but the body has alot of rust. We are going to make a trailer hitch, repair the exhaust system, a full tune up, new HEI distributor I have. some Crager rims and new tires for her and she will be back on the road. Later on we will replace the steering linkage and the brakes.
1973 Cadillac Calais is finished for now. We have fabricated a new trailer hitch for her, installed new air shocks in the rear, replaced all of the steering linkage, removed the old points distributor and installed an HEI distributor with a multi spark module and 50,000 volt coil, fixed the brakes, fixed the A/C system, fixed the cruise control, installed new tires and an old set of Crager S/S rims. The next stage will be to get her all lettered with the Bonez Garage logos
1973 Cadillac Calais the Bonez family cruizer. She has a problem that seems small but is a real nightmare. Check out the video to see what is going on with her.
1973 Cadillac Calais we now have the motor and transmission out and ready to start the working on. We also found small leaks on the covered side of the radiator which will have to be replaced.
1973 Cadillac Calais and we have the more apart showing some of what was going on with her. Check out the video it is a bit long but if you have the time you get to see how things work.
1973 Cadillac Calais the first half of the video is showing the motor almost all back together and showing some of what we have done to the motor and the second video is of the motor all back together and ready to start getting it prepped for paint.
1973 Cadillac Calais and the motor is going from bare metal to primer to painted Caddy blue and it looks so beautiful.
1973 Cadillac Calais We now have the motor, transmission and the car all ready to go back together and get her back out on the road very soon.
1973 Cadillac Calais we are setting the motor in the car and starting the car for the first time.
1973 Cadillac Calais is running great!!!
1973 Cadillac Calais and the motor is running beautifully as we cruise down the highway. Next we will be tackling the suspension, replacing all of the bushings and ball joints and lower the car between 1-1/2 inches and 2 inches.
1973 Cadillac Calais is back on the lift we are going to be replacing all of the suspension bushings front and rear and all 4 front ball joints. We are also going to lower the car about 2 inches.
1973 Cadillac Calais we have the front suspension out and are starting to replace all of the bushings and ball joints. We are waiting for more parts to come in, some of the parts were correct and some were not. I just don't know how they can get it so wrong I gave them all of the part numbers, all they have to do is pull them and they still sent me the wrong parts and the numbers weren't even close to what I gave them. 🤬
1973 Cadillac Calais is back out on the road. Since I made this video I have put another 2000 miles on her for a total of 8000 + miles since I bought her in August. Remember that this big girl was almost sent to the scrap yard. Don't scrap them save them and enjoy a small part of history.
1973 Cadillac aka Goldie working hard once again getting this beautiful GMC Pick-up to the shop for some repairs.
1973 Caddy Goldie and her hugh 472 motor blew up another starter. Seems like they last about a year before the weight of the motor just destroys them. Check out the video she almost snapped the head right off the starter.