1983 Cadillac Coupe deVille - It's All About the Bass

This isn't just another overpriced Facebook Marketplace find, friends. Well, it is to some extent but when you scratch below the surface, this 1983 Cadillac Coupe deVille, priced ambitiously at $7,500, is a lot more interesting than your run of the mill Cadillac of this vintage that's been sitting in a garage since grandpa and or grandma passed away. 

Thanks in large part to what the poster of the ad claims is a "newly done 500", appears one of the major problems with this car has already been taken care of. That meaning that the boat anchor HT4100 it came from the factory with has been mercifully tossed and in its place is a god's green earth, "old school", Cadillac V-8 dropped in. Handsomely too I might add. Have to take their word that it's a "500". Could be, frankly, anything from a 368 to a 425 or 472. Hard to tell one from the other. In any event, any of those big mills are a marked improvement over the feeble and unreliable 4100.   

But wait, there's more. Oh, so much more. For your $7,500, you also get a sound system that could blow out the walls of a movie theater. This three-thousand-watt, American Bass amplifier is the heart of whole thing. 

You also get this custom-built sound cube in the trunk. Probably is removable, the ad didn't get too much into specifics. Looks like there might be enough room to get some groceries around out. I don't "get it" but some people most certainly do. 

The icing on the cake is this "CC" or "Custom Coach" front grill complete with a Rolls Royce spirit of ecstasy knockoff. Looks like a giant golden wasp landed on the hood but that's just me. These things are crazy expensive too. Quick ebay search and you'll find this thing could go for more than what the engine cost. Not to mention the sound system. 

 

Part of me wants this car just so I can show off that front end and have people whisper things about me behind my back. "Has...has...Charley lost his mind?"

Install of the "head unit" looks clean enough, although the plug-in screen looks as out of place as a modern flat screen TV in the living room of a Civil War era home. At least it unplugs and tucks away neatly. Can't say the same for the faded red carpeting. 

The closer you can get this to 5G the better the buy it is. I'm not interested in the sound system or the front grill anyway. I'd get rid of most of that stuff and sell it, then restore this to as much factory as possible. I'd floor the gas any chance I'd get so as to enjoy the massive torque from that "newly done 500". It is all about the bass, as they say. Right?