I'm one of the guys that worked on the Eldorado,mostly body work, from what I can remember we built it in two weeks, then it was taken to LA auto show, I helped pull it out of the reliable car carrier, it was dark green brand new, I thought it was a 1996 Eldorado all my life
Thats pretty freaking cool!!! Must have been a shock to see it pop up on the channel one day.. And to know it's still out there if you didn't. I know the business has a way of completely losing touch with what might have happened To any particular project once it served its intended purpose.
@@BrewBlaster Unless they changed it since 8 years ago they will not, I tried it and they said no. They also said that if I got a rebuild title and tried to run it through the state it would be flagged and returned as a junk title again with no registration.
Because obviously he didn't learn his lesson the first time he broke it doing that... Can't help but wonder what the Wizard is shopping for online as we speak.
😂Hoovie, YOU did that to the Raptor when you introduced it to us last video. You ramped over your special ramping mound and landed primarily on your front passenger side, I was actually stunned it didn't shatter multiple components immediately upon impact.
I would have thought the Raptor would have been more robust than that. Maybe it had significant wear already and that was the straw the broke the camels back
in ITC world it would be error in between user interface and seat. But all the same, Hoovie isn't that worried about his pennies, so why no just send it.
@@jussiwallinheimo4287 Absolutely. I was just saying he was implying it was possibly something wrong in build quality while not acknowledging that that him absolutely sending it in a vehicle with over 300k miles was the more likely issue.
Well as I predicted this car is blowing up your channel. You haven't had this "Classic Hoovie" content in a while. The embalming machine and the Donuts are the cherry on top. I'm 68 and fondly remember doing my first Donuts in a Safeway parking lot in Utah back when I was 16. Now I live in South Texas where Donuts are rare. Keep the wacky content coming. It gives humor to a rather humorless World.
"no idea why the axle on right front broke" Did he forget the intro of the video of the Raptor? You know, how he launched it off the hill at his property. Where he did exactly what Wizard said.
Back in the summer of 2000 I was starting my career and did an engineering project at the GM plant in Pontiac. They had a bunch of old concept cars in the old Fiero plant. They were not on display just half covered with tarps a dust. Must have been some of the less quality ones but still neat to see how many ideas they had back then.
I worked armed security in those old plants in Pontiac after they closed. They were creepy. I also worked security at the old Buick City plant in Flint. That was back around 2010-2011.
I have pics of my Fiero in front of the plant, people still go over there for the photo op. At one point you could see competitor cars torn apart outside, obviously from 'benchmarking' activities.
@@rwdplz1 You talking about the one on Baldwin? I haven’t been down that far in a while. I’ve got a friend that lives off Columbia between Baldwin and Joslyn and I know the plants on Columbia are gone. I used to work security at the plants on Columbia and Baldwin. I caught a lot of scrappers.
Great to see you bought the poster hoovie. I did email you some of the links over via your website. The German magazine looks like it used photos taken by Cadillac, it was a common practice due to digital cameras at the time where mega expensive. It was not until the Mid 2000s that pictures of cars taken by reviewers became more of a thing (unless it was a major publication, newspapers did the same at the time, took me ages to find the orignals from what i researched).
Even for a UK viewer like me, the Eldorodo is genuine dream car material, the way that car was modded suits it so amazingly well and I am so glad to see it is still around, scrapping something like that is sacrilege to the automotive world
Might I concur? lol. I think for these wonderful boats "another one saved" is the most honourable outlook. I won't go to heaven - I wrote off a 71 oldsmobile during my time in Ca in the 80s.
Also from the UK, we did get the Seville STS, BLS and SRX through specific Vauxhall Dealers but sadly No Elderado DTS, Escalade and Allente models we're frequently imported however
Hoovie you have hit the gold mine with car ideas here. Finding magazine cars or concept cars and scooping them up. Should have kept that Pimp My Ride Van to go in the collection you're building!
That Eldo is really cool. It is sad that so many of those concept cars were destroyed. It would have been great for them to be placed in a museum, but most of them were simply design exercises by the manufacturers and they didn't really care if they survived or not. Too bad.
I drove a 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora w/ Northstar V8 when I was in high school/college until I was about 24. To this day, it was my favorite daily driver car I have ever had. It was pretty fast if you got on it, insanely spacious, comfortable, and made for a great road trip vehicle. (drove it 1200 miles round trip about every holiday I could make it home) I miss that car and this Eldorado reminds me of it. I affectionately called it the Batmobile because the driver seat felt like a cockpit.
I totaly agree, in 2000 I bought a black '98 Aurora with chrome factory wheels, so cool at the time I had to buy it, fly down to Ft Worth then drive it back to Boston. I read Edwards review that gave it all great accolade's then wrote : the 4.0 L version of Cadillac's Northstar so keep a spare quart in the trunk, this baby drinks oil like its last call at a titty bar, right 1 qt a month
My first car was a blue ‘98 Aurora and it was my favorite car, by far. A Sienna cut me off and my Aurora put a huge dent in the van’s door. My damage? A cracked fog light. It was a beast. I sold it before the infamous head bolts went bad. I miss that car!
13:59 Hoovie, I actually worked as an editor for the magazine you mention (CHROM & FLAMMEN) for a long time. It might have even been me who wrote the article or at least edited it for the print. :-) I always loved the Eldorodo and dreamed of owning it at one point in time... If you ever want to sell it, please let me know in advance. Greetings from a German now living in Miami!
@@mexicanspec I was writing and editing thousands of articles for the magazine over more than a decade. So yes, I remember the article, but I am not sure if I wrote or edited it back in 1999. 🙂 Apart from writing books with automotive content and other endeavours over the years that also required a part of my brain work. 🙂
That embalming machine is just awesome, when you filled it with blood (ATF), I was like laughing so hard, I almost cried. Keep up the great work Car Wizard!
It it possible to buy a junk eldorado with a clean title and transfer the VIN etc. over? It's what we'd call 'ringing' in the UK, no idea if it's allowed in the US though.
@@davidfurney3945, only if they find out. 😉 A friend here in the UK bought a Renault Clio ex-Clio Cup Race car from Europe to convert into tarmac rally car. It had always been a race car from new so didn't have a logbook/ V5C/ title. It could have been put through what's called an IVA (individual vehicle assessment) to get a title, but that would have required a mechanical parking brake, rear fog light and lots of other crap. Instead we bought a body shell from a car that had been broken for parts which came with VIN tags and a UK V5C / title. So the race car will get a new identity as a rally car, plus we have a spare body shell for when he inevitably crashes it.
Kansas is lenient in certain areas as far as titling. You can build your own car from scratch in your shed and get a title. You can take a salvage car that has been burnt to the ground, and put it back together and get a rebuilt title. Titles deemed "Junk" won't be considered for any reason in this state. I've seen quite a few deemed "Junk" and shouldn't have been.
All junked cars are reported to a national database now. Making it near impossible to work around. The one thing going for the eldo is when it was junked. I don't think that database existed at that time
A 62 will do that in the dry if you want. The solid axle makes it a drift beast if you wanted to tear one up. They are fun LITTLE cars. But like mine, if you are a bigger person they are TINY cars.
Your story about the Eldorado is %100 correct. I know this because back in the 1990"s my Father only bought Chevy cars & Trucks, one time he went to buy another truck at the Chevy dealership, a employee at the Chevy dealership approached my Dad and asked him if he would be interested in driving a brand new S10 4x4 for FREE for 2 years, of coarse my dad said yes and what is the catch? The Chevy employee said "there's no catch" you have a perfect driving record and you are a loyal buyer from Chevy. My Dad was told its a (concept S10) with a different motor they were trying out "in the real world" for testing purposes to see if that motor would go into production or not. I was 17 years old at the time and it was 1998. I would drive that S10 around town and SMOKE every car or truck around, it was stupid fast from a dead stop on 4x4 high!! all because this S10 has one of the first LS motors in production!!!. This S10 was basically a new "cyclone" Every month a guy from Chevy would come to our house and download all the data from the truck to see how it was doing. I asked the Chevy employee what the deal was with this truck and why it was so fast. He told me about the LS motor and once we give the truck back after 2 years they were going to crush it!!!
Interesting story but this is not at all how that works. I have 2 family members and a family friend in early vehicle development with GM. One of them hand assembles vehicles years before they go into production to refine the parts development process. Another is involved with early vehicle testing and has over 30 years being involved with it. After EXTENSIVE track testing between 3 different tracks in 3 different climates they are then driven on the road by GM employees and are absolutely covered in testing equipment. I'm sorry but there's no way in hell they hand an early development vehicle over to a customer at the dealership "for 2 years". The liabilities involved would be absolutely insane to be letting a car that hasn't even undergone final safety testing to be rodded around by some customers teenager anywhere wherever they want. The third person I know is involved with special projects at GM development. He's driven every presidential limo since the 80's.
@@gearjammergamer8560 my Grandfather retired from American Airlines in 1989. AA did the conversion of the Boeing 747-400 into Air Force one. Well, the conversion"s" there were three of them. Anyway, I got set in one of them during Open House at the maintenance bay in Tulsa when I was a kid.
For the EldoDODo, did they weld the A, B, and C pillars back into place/shape properly when they lowered the roof? This was obviously never intended to be a roadworthy car, and the modifications were meant to be aesthetic, so I'm curious if they bothered to reassemble it in road-worthy condition, or just tacked it together because GM wasn't paying for more than that.
There's similar story(that went like, I can't remember exactly) of first Moto Rama Corvette concept. GM sent all show cars various wrecking yards in Detroit for destruction. Wrecking yard owner decided to hide the Corvette show car, because he felt car was way too nice. He removed temporary chase number plate and crushed similar color car. When GM management came to check that the cars were crushed properly. Corvette was kept in the wrecking yard shed and moved around. At one point car was forgotten as the yard was sold. Eventually it was found under a tarp almost beyond repair after sitting outside 60 years.
Always nice to watch a Hoovie video. Also if you want to keep the Raptor in good condition, you can buy stronger suspension components, lighter brake rotors and calipers, lighter rims while maintaining the same overall tire sizes. If would benefit it greatly. Just an idea and cheers !
From all of my Raptor outings to the Oregon sand dunes in the early to mid 2010's we did have 2 people break their front right cv axles between about 12-13 outings. Not sure if that would be enough to constitute calling it a weak point, but it is interesting that those were the only parts breakages our groups ever experienced. And we were not kind to those trucks either.
Hoovie, when you're done with this, please donate it to a museum like The Petersen or Revs Institute. It belongs in a museum and at only $12,000, you could take the write off. Please no cars and bids on this one. I remember seeing it at the LA Auto Show back in the day and have googled it occasionally over the intervening years. Very happy to see it survived. :)
Somewhat because of the GM bankruptcy, they sold a bunch of cars out of the GM Heritage collection (I've been there quite a few times) at Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auction 2009. This was bought by Tammy Allen for $60,500. Most all if not all of the GM Heritage cars were sold on a bill of sale. The car was then sold by Tammy at Barrett Jackson Las Vegas 2016 for $17,600.
I once bought a car in California and with some hesitation purchased it without the seller having the title in hand. I really wanted the car and took on his promise to send me the title as soon as he found it. It was several months later and a title finally arrived in the mail. It was a new title from Arizona, which I took to the Oregon DMV and registered the car. Maybe you can find a way to title this car in Arizona and then Kansas.
I saw this car at a concept and manufacturer auto show in around 1999/2000 in Phoenix. It was a fairly large show they used to do, I dont know if they still do it, but the manufactures would bring out all their new cars coming up, available and concepts. It included all the big ones and some smaller private companies, took over the Phoenix convention center.
I love this concept car, I hope you can get her a rebuilt title. Also love the color, would like to know its code to use on a Callaway Corvette model kit of mine.
That is a common breakage on most IFS 4x4s, and the main reason for the breakage is abuse or misuse. It's designed in such a manner that it fails instead of causing damage to more expensive or harder to repair parts. Heavy impacts (like the jump you did in the video) or spinning tires on high traction surface while in 4x4 (like when you are flooring it trying to climb a rock causing the vehicle to bounce) usually causes the breakage. My guess would be that you probably broke the raptor, although it having a crazy amount of mileage on it probably didn't help either. It should be a fairly easy and cheap replacement, unless you damaged something else as well (like the diff).
That’s the advantage of a dealers plate. I haven’t bought a personal car in 15 years that came with more then a bill of sale. A lot of things happened where cars titles are unavailable at the time or wrote off for some dumb reasons and if you have a dealers license and shop you can buy said vehicle and not just old vehicles pretty much new vehicles and drive them around for 1/4 of retail price and then after a few years file either a mechanics or storage lien and most of the time you end up with a title of not you can still drive it under dealers tags
Oh man, I remember that Cadillac poster! After the results of the burnouts in the Vette and the Raptor jump, doing donuts in the snow in the Vette is an... interesting idea there Hoovie.
for the raptor, it could be length of the cv axles or something simple like that. i would assume they are longer than regular f150s or even the fx4 or whatever higher trim
Florida used to be a bill-of-sale state. As long as you had a notorzied bill of sale from any state, you could drive or tow a vehicle into Florida, purchase a quarter's worth of basic insurance (either inside, or right outside the DMV) and register your vehicle and title it in the great state of Florida. I'm not sure how much of that is still true, but you used to see literally de facto convoys of cars and trucks towing cars and trucks on trailers along I-10 into Florida.
It's nice that you have a perfect spot for the Annual first snow donuts. I'm sure the new neighbors mind a lot less than you old ones. I hope you manage to save the EldoROD aside from the reputation of that engine, it could be one of your more impressive gets.
Ahhhh, nothing like doing doughnuts in fresh now with a RWD! When I was a teenager, there was an industrial park near where we lived and whenever we had a decent snow, people would show there and do all sorts a crazy sh*t in the snow in their massive parking lot. Yeah, I am old enough that most of the cars that the HSers drove when I was in HS were RWD.
When I was in my teens, my brother had a 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air - 4 door with 3-on-the-tree. There was a large church behind our house with about a three acre, asphalt parking lot. When it would snow - or get icy - we would take turns spinning around and doing donuts on the flat surface......hours of fun ! It only had a 230 c.i. 6-cylinder.
I was envisioning him wrapping his corvette around one of the trees in his yard. I live in alberta canada and we dont even have any snow and its the first time in history that there has been no snow in November.
I'd consider running the OEM mirror AND the one with the camera capabilities. maybe play with where to hang it... center line just above the dash, left of the steering wheel, centered on the steering wheel like a HUD, etc.
After I saw the first Eldorado video, my first thought was if you would run into legal issues with GM. Guess you will. Companies like GM will ALWAYS go after the little guy, so hope you end up ok.
The Eldorodo is motoring history and definitely needs to be preserved. Companies like Cadillac became what they are today because a few key people early on had vision and passion and the drive to turn those into cars. As those companies become corporatised they lose the passion and drift towards mediocrity. Cars like the Eldorodo only happen when you have a team within that corporate find the same passion, and someone high up takes the risk to make it real. I love that they also made it as recognition of the hot rod community, because they are celebrating something other than themselves. I’m glad you and the wizard are preserving it.
Hoovie if you decide not to keep this you should consider donating it to the Gilmore car museum or they may possibly buy it to put it in their new muscle car museum they're building.
The college I work at had a 90 suburban v1500 that was donated because the paint was messed up, and the automotive class used it for years to rebuild the motor and what, but then at some point they got tired of it and gave it to maintenance to use as a get around vehicle and plow vehicle, but then my current boss started in 2016 and couldn't stand the look of it so they hid it from him hoping he'd for forget and well now they just scrapped it for no reason, only had 10k on it but it had to title because it was donated for educational purposes.
That 71 C 10, wow, same color as our camper truck in the 70s. Thing had a pimp set of bunks in the cabin, and a crawl over boot made of leather through from the cab. We wore ours out. Long gone by he time I was a teenager. That thing looks great.
My son's Raptor ( same vintage ) did that at 100K. He was also horsing around in the dunes in TX and I can tell you exactly how his broke. the steering was turned hard to one side while he was in a "bowl" and when he gassed it, it ripped the axle shaft out. So, its basically what the wizard said it was. Driver error. You don't apply lots of power to the driveline when its in a bind. it WILL break. Learn to drive better.
that drive shaft thing happened twice on my old Citroen GSA: each time it happened when I was trying to apply full lock while the car was running, but stationary. I guess it just put too much strain on the shaft. Something similar must have happened here. Of course with the GSA being front wheel drive it was game over immediately both times...
Hoovie, I just wanna to say getting scammed by your ex-mail order wife was the best thing that could have happend to you. Sure you lost more than half of your sheet but look at you now! Great plot of land, amazing cars and beautiful leggy swimsuit model girlfriend. You are one blessed, SOB!
Until he can't afford all of it, and the swimsuit is one of the first abandon ship. Don't get all the bashing with his previous wife. Ever thought he his the one in fault?
Like so many of the Wizards carts that is a School's AV cart for an Over Head projector. We used to have one in each of the 400 classrooms at the Univarsy.
The Wizard has all the things he needs now to pump life restoring fluids into your cars- then he just raises them up and waits for a lightning storm, yells "IT'S ALIVE!!" to Mrs. Wizard and then charges you $2500. I LOVE IT :)
You might want to make sure you can drive that car on a dealer plate in Kansas. In my home state I can lose my dealer plate or worse driving a certificate of destruction car displaying my dealer plate. Thankfully the officer let it slide. It was not a cool concept car but a parts car we were testing the transmission on. He followed me back to the dealership and told me "don't do that again!" Any who just make sure you are good to go. Hopefully you can flip it to a title that does allow you to drive it and make it more enjoyable
Tyler, you may want to reach out to the Joe Bortz collection. You may have heard of him, he specialized in collecting concept cars and has had a few from the 50s. The collection may have some resources that may help research the car and further understand the history of manufacturer concept vehicles.
That purring people pickler really came in handy.The fluid really kicked it over the weirdo-meter scale for even Tyler.It'd been better if the Wizard could've found a couple Watchman screens to mount on the windshield pillars for the side mirror cameras.That just fits the scheme better and leaves the rear view mirror stock.
Just FYI, the Vermont loophole is closed, but if you sell it to a Vermont resident they could theoretically still register it with just a bill of sale, but only until January 1st. They are changing the law so that every car will now require a title to be registered after the new year. Anything registered before that can be grandfathered and get a replacement title after the new year.
Tyler. 15:05 Broken CV axel. Not a frequent cause but I've seen it before, make sure your differential housing is square in the frame, and properly aligned. Used to see this on front drive Chrysler that had the engine or transaxle R&R work done. Both were swappwd 18 months apart, 93 to 94, and had 0nly had one CV axle pop, due to age, betwren 87 and 92. Torn boot, dirt got to the race abd bearibgs, and snap. But 94 to 96, it snapped 14. 3 were inner joints, where they almost Never fail. Was changing, upgrading, the clutch and flywheel in my 93 Spirit R/T, and had to loosen the engine mount to drop the transaxle (yes. There were manual Dodge Spirits, and a performance model. DOHC turbo with a 5 speed, that ate Mustangs and shit camaros at the track. Stock.) As I was finishings up the ceenter driveline mount, and checking my witness maris, something came to me. Got the headlamp abd calipers, and checked the mounts on moms Caravan. Engine side was left of center, trabs right of center. Went in, and got dad, and did the check with him using the mounts on the Spirit. Asked him about mounting the center brace, did he have to fight it. Yep. Swapped out vehicles, and loosened the bolts. Driveline moved almost an inch. They had the Caravan until mom passed in 03, we had it until 08, and gsve it, after a full rebuild, minus the damn Chrysler electronic carb, got a Holley 2 bbl, and gave it to a friend that needed it for college. She abd her husband sold it in 2018. Neighbor's parents had an identical one, and he wanted it. Only had the axels replaced Once. When we gave it to her, as preventative maintenance. So. I'd have the Wizard check the axle housing, and A arm length. Just because he's going to be in that vicinity anyway. And don't use cheap axles on a truck. Buy once, cry once rule applies here. Especially with overpowered off road, or lifted trucks. Input angle at the hibs, and more potential to be off center is what snaps them. Hooe this helps, as I caight the blame for 4 of those axeks, until I was only a passenger 9n that van, of my own choice. Last time I drove it in 95, it snapped the driver's side inner. Last one snapped on my first wife 3 weeks later. Not even turning, dad and me moving other cars by the shop.
Hi Hoovie, I love the Eldorodo anyway but I’m even more fascinated by your plan to get it road registered (maybe in a nearby State) kind regards from the U.K. 🇬🇧
That video of the Eldo-Rod was taken 20 days after my 15th birthday. This used to be one of my dream cars as a kid. I cannot believe you found it. Id give anything to see it in person
Let wizard know hoping for speedy recovery but just prepare my close friend had one in high school due to a deviated septum and she said it was hell recovering
Please get it titled that car deserves to be shown to the world and driven by far in my eyes from all the crazy buys one of the best purchases u have made love the car
I'm one of the guys that worked on the Eldorado,mostly body work, from what I can remember we built it in two weeks, then it was taken to LA auto show, I helped pull it out of the reliable car carrier, it was dark green brand new, I thought it was a 1996 Eldorado all my life
I think Arkansas will inspect and title that car.
Neato.
Thats pretty freaking cool!!!
Must have been a shock to see it pop up on the channel one day..
And to know it's still out there if you didn't. I know the business has a way of completely losing touch with what might have happened To any particular project once it served its intended purpose.
@@BrewBlaster Unless they changed it since 8 years ago they will not, I tried it and they said no. They also said that if I got a rebuild title and tried to run it through the state it would be flagged and returned as a junk title again with no registration.
Could probably get it done in Alabama because after like 20-25 years old all you need is a bill of sale and we don't have yearly state inspections
I'm imagining Hoovie's neighbours coming over to tell his parents that he's been doing donuts in his dad's classic Corvette.
James Tiberius Kirk did a number on his dad's classic Vette:
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He is a spoiled brat.
Because obviously he didn't learn his lesson the first time he broke it doing that... Can't help but wonder what the Wizard is shopping for online as we speak.
Daddy's money so same difference.
OMG that's hilarious! I can totally relate to that thought. Ha ha ha!
😂Hoovie, YOU did that to the Raptor when you introduced it to us last video. You ramped over your special ramping mound and landed primarily on your front passenger side, I was actually stunned it didn't shatter multiple components immediately upon impact.
This.
Indeed. I watched that and pretty much said aloud: "Well, that was that front suspension!"
So true
I would have thought the Raptor would have been more robust than that.
Maybe it had significant wear already and that was the straw the broke the camels back
He said that at 5:26
Pertaining to the damaged Raptor, as my grandpa would put it - “I’d say it was a loose nut between the seat & the steering wheel”
in ITC world it would be error in between user interface and seat.
But all the same, Hoovie isn't that worried about his pennies, so why no just send it.
@@jussiwallinheimo4287 Absolutely. I was just saying he was implying it was possibly something wrong in build quality while not acknowledging that that him absolutely sending it in a vehicle with over 300k miles was the more likely issue.
I'm the one that found the poster on eBay for you. I'm so glad you bought it before it got snapped up 👍😀
Yeah me too i found it too😍
Well as I predicted this car is blowing up your channel. You haven't had this "Classic Hoovie" content in a while. The embalming machine and the Donuts are the cherry on top. I'm 68 and fondly remember doing my first Donuts in a Safeway parking lot in Utah back when I was 16. Now I live in South Texas where Donuts are rare. Keep the wacky content coming. It gives humor to a rather humorless World.
Agreed, I didnt watch Hoovie for a year and now I'm on second Eldorodo vid
At 68, I see an embalming machine in your near future 💀
I love seeing the past concepts, it's a ton of fun to see old ideas that manufacturers had, or just things they thought would look rad.
It’s funny, the profile of the Corvette resembles the Mercedes you covet so much.
"no idea why the axle on right front broke" Did he forget the intro of the video of the Raptor? You know, how he launched it off the hill at his property. Where he did exactly what Wizard said.
HOOVIE SAID IT NOT WIZARD WTF @5:26
Back in the summer of 2000 I was starting my career and did an engineering project at the GM plant in Pontiac. They had a bunch of old concept cars in the old Fiero plant. They were not on display just half covered with tarps a dust. Must have been some of the less quality ones but still neat to see how many ideas they had back then.
I worked armed security in those old plants in Pontiac after they closed. They were creepy. I also worked security at the old Buick City plant in Flint. That was back around 2010-2011.
I have pics of my Fiero in front of the plant, people still go over there for the photo op. At one point you could see competitor cars torn apart outside, obviously from 'benchmarking' activities.
@@rwdplz1 I believe the plants have been torn down.
@@Ornelas11B There's still a good section standing by the road, from the main entrance guard shack down several hundred feet to the old GM sign.
@@rwdplz1 You talking about the one on Baldwin? I haven’t been down that far in a while. I’ve got a friend that lives off Columbia between Baldwin and Joslyn and I know the plants on Columbia are gone. I used to work security at the plants on Columbia and Baldwin. I caught a lot of scrappers.
Came for the EldoRODo, stayed for the Corvette snow drifts
'snow DRIFTS!'🤣🤣
I'm with the Wizard on this one. The embalmer pump is pretty nifty, and it gets a new life away from corpses.
Lol “new life” how ironic
@@jimcooke6257 One could say it gets an afterlife 😂
He could just use a funnel and be done.
Great to see you bought the poster hoovie. I did email you some of the links over via your website. The German magazine looks like it used photos taken by Cadillac, it was a common practice due to digital cameras at the time where mega expensive. It was not until the Mid 2000s that pictures of cars taken by reviewers became more of a thing (unless it was a major publication, newspapers did the same at the time, took me ages to find the orignals from what i researched).
Seems like there is a chance that the photos from the German magazine are from the same photo shoot as the poster. Some similarities in the setting.
Even for a UK viewer like me, the Eldorodo is genuine dream car material, the way that car was modded suits it so amazingly well and I am so glad to see it is still around, scrapping something like that is sacrilege to the automotive world
Might I concur? lol. I think for these wonderful boats "another one saved" is the most honourable outlook. I won't go to heaven - I wrote off a 71 oldsmobile during my time in Ca in the 80s.
Also from the UK, we did get the Seville STS, BLS and SRX through specific Vauxhall Dealers but sadly No Elderado
DTS, Escalade and Allente models we're frequently imported however
The Hoovie Homestead looks beautiful in the snow
Hoovie you have hit the gold mine with car ideas here. Finding magazine cars or concept cars and scooping them up. Should have kept that Pimp My Ride Van to go in the collection you're building!
its got a good home at Peterson though.
That Eldo is really cool. It is sad that so many of those concept cars were destroyed. It would have been great for them to be placed in a museum, but most of them were simply design exercises by the manufacturers and they didn't really care if they survived or not. Too bad.
I drove a 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora w/ Northstar V8 when I was in high school/college until I was about 24. To this day, it was my favorite daily driver car I have ever had. It was pretty fast if you got on it, insanely spacious, comfortable, and made for a great road trip vehicle. (drove it 1200 miles round trip about every holiday I could make it home) I miss that car and this Eldorado reminds me of it. I affectionately called it the Batmobile because the driver seat felt like a cockpit.
I totaly agree, in 2000 I bought a black '98 Aurora with chrome factory wheels, so cool at the time I had to buy it, fly down to Ft Worth then drive it back to Boston. I read Edwards review that gave it all great accolade's then wrote : the 4.0 L version of Cadillac's Northstar so keep a spare quart in the trunk, this baby drinks oil like its last call at a titty bar, right 1 qt a month
My first car was a blue ‘98 Aurora and it was my favorite car, by far. A Sienna cut me off and my Aurora put a huge dent in the van’s door. My damage? A cracked fog light. It was a beast. I sold it before the infamous head bolts went bad. I miss that car!
13:59 Hoovie, I actually worked as an editor for the magazine you mention (CHROM & FLAMMEN) for a long time. It might have even been me who wrote the article or at least edited it for the print. :-) I always loved the Eldorodo and dreamed of owning it at one point in time... If you ever want to sell it, please let me know in advance. Greetings from a German now living in Miami!
It seems like you would remember a bright orange car like that.
@@mexicanspec I was writing and editing thousands of articles for the magazine over more than a decade. So yes, I remember the article, but I am not sure if I wrote or edited it back in 1999. 🙂 Apart from writing books with automotive content and other endeavours over the years that also required a part of my brain work. 🙂
Loved that mag back in the day. Thanks!
That embalming machine is just awesome, when you filled it with blood (ATF), I was like laughing so hard, I almost cried. Keep up the great work Car Wizard!
I just looked them up on EBay. I’m going to ask the wife for one for Christmas. 🥴 Wish me luck! 😳😂
That axle on the Craptor looks so thin and spindly for such a heavy beast
CRAP'tor🤪😂 !! Priceless👍 !!!
I wonder if you could get a state issued VIN under a custom or home built car so it could be titled and road driven.
yep
Since it started as a factory car, could you use the original VIN? Or is that what's on the paperwork?
It it possible to buy a junk eldorado with a clean title and transfer the VIN etc. over? It's what we'd call 'ringing' in the UK, no idea if it's allowed in the US though.
@@Hopgop1 very illegal, it’s a felony in the states
@@davidfurney3945, only if they find out. 😉
A friend here in the UK bought a Renault Clio ex-Clio Cup Race car from Europe to convert into tarmac rally car. It had always been a race car from new so didn't have a logbook/ V5C/ title.
It could have been put through what's called an IVA (individual vehicle assessment) to get a title, but that would have required a mechanical parking brake, rear fog light and lots of other crap.
Instead we bought a body shell from a car that had been broken for parts which came with VIN tags and a UK V5C / title. So the race car will get a new identity as a rally car, plus we have a spare body shell for when he inevitably crashes it.
Kansas is lenient in certain areas as far as titling. You can build your own car from scratch in your shed and get a title. You can take a salvage car that has been burnt to the ground, and put it back together and get a rebuilt title. Titles deemed "Junk" won't be considered for any reason in this state. I've seen quite a few deemed "Junk" and shouldn't have been.
Yes but if he does a lien sale and searches the surrounding states it won't come up at all. I am sure they will issue a title at that point.
All these "green" states want to scrap working cars. Very wasteful
All junked cars are reported to a national database now. Making it near impossible to work around. The one thing going for the eldo is when it was junked. I don't think that database existed at that time
@@patriotgarage is that a federal law, or a convenience to states?
There is still Carfax though and it will be on there.@@patriotgarage
A 62 will do that in the dry if you want. The solid axle makes it a drift beast if you wanted to tear one up. They are fun LITTLE cars. But like mine, if you are a bigger person they are TINY cars.
Your story about the Eldorado is %100 correct.
I know this because back in the 1990"s my Father only bought Chevy cars & Trucks, one time he went to buy another truck at the Chevy dealership, a employee at the Chevy dealership approached my Dad and asked him if he would be interested in driving a brand new S10 4x4 for FREE for 2 years, of coarse my dad said yes and what is the catch? The Chevy employee said "there's no catch" you have a perfect driving record and you are a loyal buyer from Chevy.
My Dad was told its a (concept S10) with a different motor they were trying out "in the real world" for testing purposes to see if that motor would go into production or not.
I was 17 years old at the time and it was 1998.
I would drive that S10 around town and SMOKE every car or truck around, it was stupid fast from a dead stop on 4x4 high!! all because this S10 has one of the first LS motors in production!!!. This S10 was basically a new "cyclone"
Every month a guy from Chevy would come to our house and download all the data from the truck to see how it was doing.
I asked the Chevy employee what the deal was with this truck and why it was so fast. He told me about the LS motor and once we give the truck back after 2 years they were going to crush it!!!
Thats awesome
Interesting story but this is not at all how that works. I have 2 family members and a family friend in early vehicle development with GM. One of them hand assembles vehicles years before they go into production to refine the parts development process. Another is involved with early vehicle testing and has over 30 years being involved with it. After EXTENSIVE track testing between 3 different tracks in 3 different climates they are then driven on the road by GM employees and are absolutely covered in testing equipment. I'm sorry but there's no way in hell they hand an early development vehicle over to a customer at the dealership "for 2 years". The liabilities involved would be absolutely insane to be letting a car that hasn't even undergone final safety testing to be rodded around by some customers teenager anywhere wherever they want. The third person I know is involved with special projects at GM development. He's driven every presidential limo since the 80's.
Thanks for talking sense. People believe anything these days.
@@gearjammergamer8560 my Grandfather retired from American Airlines in 1989. AA did the conversion of the Boeing 747-400 into Air Force one. Well, the conversion"s" there were three of them. Anyway, I got set in one of them during Open House at the maintenance bay in Tulsa when I was a kid.
Snow donuts continues to be one of my favourite bits of Hoovies Garage channel Tyler loves doing donuts in cars you never get to see doing donuts
He's Creepy and He's Cooky, Mysterious and Spooky, He's the Wizard!!!
At least we now know who services the Addams family's car.
Now I have that song in my head!
Great intro with the corvette Hoovie. It’s great to see you enjoying life after a bit of a rough patch
That car is SO worth trying to fix up and get plates on. That will be a one off classic forever. And it also looks kinda cool :D
I'm glad you bought the poster I found, and I'm really glad the car wasn't crushed!
First the Countach, now a classic ’Vette? Hoovie does the best drifting flexes this side of “The Fast and the Furious”! 😎
Love the embalming machine Wiz, nice use of old tech for new.
The intro with the Corvette doing donuts in the snow brings back some serious Lambo memories, only without the anxiety of a mailbox!
For the EldoDODo, did they weld the A, B, and C pillars back into place/shape properly when they lowered the roof? This was obviously never intended to be a roadworthy car, and the modifications were meant to be aesthetic, so I'm curious if they bothered to reassemble it in road-worthy condition, or just tacked it together because GM wasn't paying for more than that.
Thats a good question, especially reading another comment that said the person worked on the car, and they completed in 2 weeks.
They tilted the front and rear windscreens from the article I found... I imagine for a "concept" show car it probably isn't to safety spec...
There's similar story(that went like, I can't remember exactly) of first Moto Rama Corvette concept. GM sent all show cars various wrecking yards in Detroit for destruction. Wrecking yard owner decided to hide the Corvette show car, because he felt car was way too nice. He removed temporary chase number plate and crushed similar color car. When GM management came to check that the cars were crushed properly. Corvette was kept in the wrecking yard shed and moved around. At one point car was forgotten as the yard was sold. Eventually it was found under a tarp almost beyond repair after sitting outside 60 years.
Google "The Bortz Collection", Joe Bortz in the Chicago area rescued many of the old G.M. dream cars from Warhoops wrecking yard and restored them.
Thanks for the teaser at the end... It's also great to see how happy you appear. Must be nice to have that new friend of yours around the farm.
Always nice to watch a Hoovie video. Also if you want to keep the Raptor in good condition, you can buy stronger suspension components, lighter brake rotors and calipers, lighter rims while maintaining the same overall tire sizes. If would benefit it greatly. Just an idea and cheers !
Hoovie you are special. Short bus special that is.
From all of my Raptor outings to the Oregon sand dunes in the early to mid 2010's we did have 2 people break their front right cv axles between about 12-13 outings. Not sure if that would be enough to constitute calling it a weak point, but it is interesting that those were the only parts breakages our groups ever experienced. And we were not kind to those trucks either.
This is your most interesting car yet! Please keep making videos about it as you uncover more details.
Hoovie, when you're done with this, please donate it to a museum like The Petersen or Revs Institute. It belongs in a museum and at only $12,000, you could take the write off. Please no cars and bids on this one. I remember seeing it at the LA Auto Show back in the day and have googled it occasionally over the intervening years. Very happy to see it survived. :)
Somewhat because of the GM bankruptcy, they sold a bunch of cars out of the GM Heritage collection (I've been there quite a few times) at Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auction 2009. This was bought by Tammy Allen for $60,500. Most all if not all of the GM Heritage cars were sold on a bill of sale. The car was then sold by Tammy at Barrett Jackson Las Vegas 2016 for $17,600.
Yes, GM did not sell all the cool cars. There is still a sizable, rotating collection at the Heritage Center. Go see it.
I once bought a car in California and with some hesitation purchased it without the seller having the title in hand. I really wanted the car and took on his promise to send me the title as soon as he found it. It was several months later and a title finally arrived in the mail. It was a new title from Arizona, which I took to the Oregon DMV and registered the car. Maybe you can find a way to title this car in Arizona and then Kansas.
I saw this car at a concept and manufacturer auto show in around 1999/2000 in Phoenix. It was a fairly large show they used to do, I dont know if they still do it, but the manufactures would bring out all their new cars coming up, available and concepts. It included all the big ones and some smaller private companies, took over the Phoenix convention center.
I love this concept car, I hope you can get her a rebuilt title. Also love the color, would like to know its code to use on a Callaway Corvette model kit of mine.
I'm really hoping you can get this thing titled and drive it. That would be awesome!
The Raptor is now 3x4! 🤣😂
Unless it has a locking front diff then the other wheel would remain unpowered.... But I don't know my raptor specs....
You have that backwards. It still has 4 wheels but only 3 work so it would be 4X3.
Wizard's macabre sense of humour resonates so well with me! Good lord that embalming machine, and its brilliant re-purpose, was hilarious.
Thanks TyTy for another chill vid for me to relax to after work.
HOOVIE watch the Vette! God damn, had me yelling at you!😂
That is a common breakage on most IFS 4x4s, and the main reason for the breakage is abuse or misuse. It's designed in such a manner that it fails instead of causing damage to more expensive or harder to repair parts. Heavy impacts (like the jump you did in the video) or spinning tires on high traction surface while in 4x4 (like when you are flooring it trying to climb a rock causing the vehicle to bounce) usually causes the breakage. My guess would be that you probably broke the raptor, although it having a crazy amount of mileage on it probably didn't help either. It should be a fairly easy and cheap replacement, unless you damaged something else as well (like the diff).
That’s the advantage of a dealers plate. I haven’t bought a personal car in 15 years that came with more then a bill of sale. A lot of things happened where cars titles are unavailable at the time or wrote off for some dumb reasons and if you have a dealers license and shop you can buy said vehicle and not just old vehicles pretty much new vehicles and drive them around for 1/4 of retail price and then after a few years file either a mechanics or storage lien and most of the time you end up with a title of not you can still drive it under dealers tags
Wizards 90s partying is catching up with him ? Im in love with this Cadi. Thank you Mr. Hoovie .
Honestly, I was waiting to see the rear end SLAP a tree while doing snow donuts...
It's not a mustang
Yes, I thought the same thing.
@@StumpyBuilt86 No, a mustang would be searching out a crowd of people to consume. 😁😅🤣🦼🦽
Hoovie please don't ever change!! 👍🏻😎
Oh man, I remember that Cadillac poster!
After the results of the burnouts in the Vette and the Raptor jump, doing donuts in the snow in the Vette is an... interesting idea there Hoovie.
I love the look of this concept car. I wish more were made even a limited production run.
This is turning into a REAL ADVENTURE. Wizard and the embalming machine may see quite a bit of use on his channel and yours.
for the raptor, it could be length of the cv axles or something simple like that. i would assume they are longer than regular f150s or even the fx4 or whatever higher trim
Florida used to be a bill-of-sale state. As long as you had a notorzied bill of sale from any state, you could drive or tow a vehicle into Florida, purchase a quarter's worth of basic insurance (either inside, or right outside the DMV) and register your vehicle and title it in the great state of Florida.
I'm not sure how much of that is still true, but you used to see literally de facto convoys of cars and trucks towing cars and trucks on trailers along I-10 into Florida.
God bless Florida and Florida Man!
It's nice that you have a perfect spot for the Annual first snow donuts. I'm sure the new neighbors mind a lot less than you old ones. I hope you manage to save the EldoROD aside from the reputation of that engine, it could be one of your more impressive gets.
A little VIN swap on a 25 year old Cadillac has never hurt anybody 😂
as they thought about it from their jail cell...lolol
Ya. Not on a very public car. Plus hoovie is smart enough to not risk the legal problems
Ahhhh, nothing like doing doughnuts in fresh now with a RWD! When I was a teenager, there was an industrial park near where we lived and whenever we had a decent snow, people would show there and do all sorts a crazy sh*t in the snow in their massive parking lot. Yeah, I am old enough that most of the cars that the HSers drove when I was in HS were RWD.
When I was in my teens, my brother had a 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air - 4 door with 3-on-the-tree. There was a large church behind our house with about a three acre, asphalt
parking lot. When it would snow - or get icy - we would take turns spinning around and doing donuts on the flat surface......hours of fun ! It only had a 230 c.i. 6-cylinder.
I was envisioning him wrapping his corvette around one of the trees in his yard.
I live in alberta canada and we dont even have any snow and its the first time in history that there has been no snow in November.
The camera viewing angles wild abysmal in that socket space.
I'd consider running the OEM mirror AND the one with the camera capabilities. maybe play with where to hang it... center line just above the dash, left of the steering wheel, centered on the steering wheel like a HUD, etc.
After I saw the first Eldorado video, my first thought was if you would run into legal issues with GM. Guess you will. Companies like GM will ALWAYS go after the little guy, so hope you end up ok.
The Eldorodo is motoring history and definitely needs to be preserved. Companies like Cadillac became what they are today because a few key people early on had vision and passion and the drive to turn those into cars. As those companies become corporatised they lose the passion and drift towards mediocrity.
Cars like the Eldorodo only happen when you have a team within that corporate find the same passion, and someone high up takes the risk to make it real. I love that they also made it as recognition of the hot rod community, because they are celebrating something other than themselves.
I’m glad you and the wizard are preserving it.
Absolutely love the EldoRodo Hoovie ! One of your best purchases to date IMO. Beautiful car 👍🏻
Hoovie if you decide not to keep this you should consider donating it to the Gilmore car museum or they may possibly buy it to put it in their new muscle car museum they're building.
The college I work at had a 90 suburban v1500 that was donated because the paint was messed up, and the automotive class used it for years to rebuild the motor and what, but then at some point they got tired of it and gave it to maintenance to use as a get around vehicle and plow vehicle, but then my current boss started in 2016 and couldn't stand the look of it so they hid it from him hoping he'd for forget and well now they just scrapped it for no reason, only had 10k on it but it had to title because it was donated for educational purposes.
The embalming pump is the perfect kind of machine to match the Wizard's dark beady eyed, scary psychopath character.
That 71 C 10, wow, same color as our camper truck in the 70s. Thing had a pimp set of bunks in the cabin, and a crawl over boot made of leather through from the cab. We wore ours out. Long gone by he time I was a teenager. That thing looks great.
If you do the double camera thing you absolutely have to switch them with the turn indicators!
My son's Raptor ( same vintage ) did that at 100K. He was also horsing around in the dunes in TX and I can tell you exactly how his broke. the steering was turned hard to one side while he was in a "bowl" and when he gassed it, it ripped the axle shaft out. So, its basically what the wizard said it was. Driver error. You don't apply lots of power to the driveline when its in a bind. it WILL break. Learn to drive better.
that drive shaft thing happened twice on my old Citroen GSA: each time it happened when I was trying to apply full lock while the car was running, but stationary. I guess it just put too much strain on the shaft. Something similar must have happened here. Of course with the GSA being front wheel drive it was game over immediately both times...
Hoovie driving his '62 Corvette like it should be driven made my day.
Hoovie, I just wanna to say getting scammed by your ex-mail order wife was the best thing that could have happend to you. Sure you lost more than half of your sheet but look at you now! Great plot of land, amazing cars and beautiful leggy swimsuit model girlfriend. You are one blessed, SOB!
Until he can't afford all of it, and the swimsuit is one of the first abandon ship. Don't get all the bashing with his previous wife. Ever thought he his the one in fault?
Third!
Like so many of the Wizards carts that is a School's AV cart for an Over Head projector. We used to have one in each of the 400 classrooms at the Univarsy.
The Wizard has all the things he needs now to pump life restoring fluids into your cars- then he just raises them up and waits for a lightning storm, yells "IT'S ALIVE!!" to Mrs. Wizard and then charges you $2500. I LOVE IT :)
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So cool that you found all the history on the car and the poster and video.
You might want to make sure you can drive that car on a dealer plate in Kansas. In my home state I can lose my dealer plate or worse driving a certificate of destruction car displaying my dealer plate.
Thankfully the officer let it slide. It was not a cool concept car but a parts car we were testing the transmission on. He followed me back to the dealership and told me "don't do that again!"
Any who just make sure you are good to go. Hopefully you can flip it to a title that does allow you to drive it and make it more enjoyable
Tyler, you may want to reach out to the Joe Bortz collection. You may have heard of him, he specialized in collecting concept cars and has had a few from the 50s. The collection may have some resources that may help research the car and further understand the history of manufacturer concept vehicles.
Omg! The smiles! My first vehicle was a 71 c-10 long bed in the exact same paint. 😊😊😊 OH wow! Thank you for the memories flash back!!!!!
That purring people pickler really came in handy.The fluid really kicked it over the weirdo-meter scale for even Tyler.It'd been better if the Wizard could've found a couple Watchman screens to mount on the windshield pillars for the side mirror cameras.That just fits the scheme better and leaves the rear view mirror stock.
There is a Vermont title loop hole. Uncle Tony's Garage did a whole video explaining it and how to do it. Worth checking out
That was closed unless you know somebody that lives in the state but that would not erase the certificate of destruction it currently has.
Glad to see we're not the only ones with snow. Greetings from Denmark 🥶🇩🇰
Just FYI, the Vermont loophole is closed, but if you sell it to a Vermont resident they could theoretically still register it with just a bill of sale, but only until January 1st. They are changing the law so that every car will now require a title to be registered after the new year. Anything registered before that can be grandfathered and get a replacement title after the new year.
Geez it's snowing in Kansas but up here in Connecticut it hasn't even gotten cold enough *to* snow yet. That's wild.
Tyler.
15:05 Broken CV axel. Not a frequent cause but I've seen it before, make sure your differential housing is square in the frame, and properly aligned. Used to see this on front drive Chrysler that had the engine or transaxle R&R work done.
Both were swappwd 18 months apart, 93 to 94, and had 0nly had one CV axle pop, due to age, betwren 87 and 92.
Torn boot, dirt got to the race abd bearibgs, and snap.
But 94 to 96, it snapped 14. 3 were inner joints, where they almost Never fail. Was changing, upgrading, the clutch and flywheel in my 93 Spirit R/T, and had to loosen the engine mount to drop the transaxle (yes. There were manual Dodge Spirits, and a performance model. DOHC turbo with a 5 speed, that ate Mustangs and shit camaros at the track. Stock.)
As I was finishings up the ceenter driveline mount, and checking my witness maris, something came to me. Got the headlamp abd calipers, and checked the mounts on moms Caravan. Engine side was left of center, trabs right of center. Went in, and got dad, and did the check with him using the mounts on the Spirit. Asked him about mounting the center brace, did he have to fight it. Yep.
Swapped out vehicles, and loosened the bolts. Driveline moved almost an inch. They had the Caravan until mom passed in 03, we had it until 08, and gsve it, after a full rebuild, minus the damn Chrysler electronic carb, got a Holley 2 bbl, and gave it to a friend that needed it for college. She abd her husband sold it in 2018. Neighbor's parents had an identical one, and he wanted it.
Only had the axels replaced Once. When we gave it to her, as preventative maintenance.
So. I'd have the Wizard check the axle housing, and A arm length. Just because he's going to be in that vicinity anyway.
And don't use cheap axles on a truck. Buy once, cry once rule applies here. Especially with overpowered off road, or lifted trucks. Input angle at the hibs, and more potential to be off center is what snaps them.
Hooe this helps, as I caight the blame for 4 of those axeks, until I was only a passenger 9n that van, of my own choice. Last time I drove it in 95, it snapped the driver's side inner. Last one snapped on my first wife 3 weeks later. Not even turning, dad and me moving other cars by the shop.
One of the coolest cars in the collection. I love the styling and the wheels . Very retro
Hi Hoovie, I love the Eldorodo anyway but I’m even more fascinated by your plan to get it road registered (maybe in a nearby State) kind regards from the U.K. 🇬🇧
I can hardly wait to see your latest acquisition.
That video of the Eldo-Rod was taken 20 days after my 15th birthday.
This used to be one of my dream cars as a kid.
I cannot believe you found it. Id give anything to see it in person
I am glad GM has not C&D'd you forcing it to be crushed yet. This thing is a sweet museum piece.
They sold it at auction on a bill of sale, they don't care.
Let wizard know hoping for speedy recovery but just prepare my close friend had one in high school due to a deviated septum and she said it was hell recovering
Please get it titled that car deserves to be shown to the world and driven by far in my eyes from all the crazy buys one of the best purchases u have made love the car
"The Towing Channel", makes me laugh everytime that old joke comes up......gets funnier every time!
Now that I’ve seen the poster you bought, i now remember that same poster…..such a cool car, hopefully you and weezard get it sorted and keep it…..