1941 Cadillac

[AKhusky4]

I must be nuts. When I retired, after building an additional garage on the side of my home, as it is too damned cold up here in the winters to have a vintage car in an unheated storage area, I wound up buying first, a 1916 Ford Touring Car, then a year or so later a 1931 Ford Roadster. I play with these, and take them into the local High School to talk about their contributions to, and impact on automotive history and automobile mechanics. Now, I am a retired teacher and I sure don't have bazillions of dollars to throw around, but once more I am regressing, again and thinking of the 1941 Fleetwood I had many decades ago and wishing I had another, as that was one sweet car. Where I am, I am really a lot better off to get a really nice older restoration and just do the upkeep rather than trying to restore from scratch. I will also have to build another warm garage before I can even think seriously about doing this. I will certainly have to do a hell of a lot of substituting to earn enough money to get a nice '41 or '42 Caddy, and then getting it up here. I would think I would be smart to again look in the North West and fly down to see it as well as bring the car back on the Alaska Ferry as I did with my Model A.

Anyone willing to work with me on a long range plan, or talk me back into some semblance of sanity, please contact me at uhldwm@ak.net. It looks like a show car would probably run upwards of $50,000.00, which is way beyond my means. However, I am looking at a really nice, and correct, driver that I could use in the schools as an example of a pre WW-2 high in excellence, and Harley Earl design, as well as a dependable driver for that purpose. I really don't have any idea what a nice one would run, and as I previously stated, doing a restoration is, for a lot of reasons impractical for me, especially up here. What I really need is some guidance at this point. That or a good slap to the side of the head, and a, ?What in the hell were you thinking!?, reality check. One thing I know for sure, I won?t be able to buy one for $5.00 like I did back in the early 1960?s.

Thanks in advance,

Jim Uhl

Knik, Alaska

[Guest imported_41Kaddy]

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