Thank was so kind of you. That is kind of you to help Adam out and get his car for him. Thank you for sharing the journey and process. Adam will get it looking great and issues resolved.
I absolutely love Adam's collection and we haven't seen every car that he has. I was born in 1959, so I've been able to ride in many of them when they were new.
I owned a Cimarron from my junior year in high school to my final year in college. I had done chores and run errands for a neighbor who bought it brand new. When she could no longer drive, she gifted it to me. It was five years old and had less than 10k miles. She even replaced all the tires! I drove it an additional 140k miles until it was rear-ended at a stoplight and totaled. Never failed to start or left me stranded despite a lot of deferred maintenance and the installation of junkyard parts. Hardly the greatest vehicle I have ever owned but not as bad as urban legend suggests.
My story with a Cimarron owner when I was working at an independent shop in 1990 as a tech-They get real angry when you ask them to move their Cavalier so you can pull a car out of a stall being blocked. It was an honest hurried mistake and not one intended to upset a paying customer.
As a HUGE fan of Adam… It was cool to see the car you picked up for him. However… I LOVED your commentary! I really really enjoyed your stories , and the drive thru the countryside. I found myself searching for your beautiful town, your tranquil countryside on Google Maps. As someone who lives in the Miami, Florida area…. It is refreshing to see this countryside. And as is the case with Adam…. Your voice is relaxing to listen too. Great video. THANKS!!!
Amazing video, I'm a big fan of Adam's work. Beautiful example of a Cimarron. I loved the beautiful scenery and your memories. I googled an inflation calculator and you're right. $18,455 in 1986 is $40,175 in 2023.
Nice scenery on the road trip. That Cavalier - I think it's like having a boat. There's only 2 good days with them. The day you get it and the day you get rid of it.
Re: Power windows: Take a q-tip, load it up with white lithium grease INTO the window channels and run the windows up and down a few times. You will notice the motors strain less and move faster.
I have a mint 25,000 mile Cimarron. Haven’t uploaded it yet but it is. Terrific car. Glad Adam found one. He was interested in mine but I wanted to keep it. Mine is cream, 2.8 leather. Same year model. Congrats Adam and you are a good friend for helping out Tony.
@@tonyscarcare5657 Thanks Tony. I’ve reached out to Adam separately on the front bumper fillers if he is getting some done as I need a couple too. Loving your videos on the 68’s too.
The ever-rare leather/wool interior which was a no-cost option and was in reality a leather delete, since leather was standard. This is such a nice example, dream interior, but I’d love a white one with blue wool/leather.
You worked on power windows. I'm restoring my 88 Mazda MX 6 gt turbo with stick and need a left power window regulator. These parts are hard to find now. My little special friend still has the original paint job, and looks great in its original ticket red. One owner, moi. Still drives well, with the built in torque oversteer 😂
A surprise treat, touring us around areas of your youth! Reminded me of the great, lamented John Denver: 🎶 "Country roads, take me home to the place I was born..."🎵
Awww, thank you! I, too, think of that song a lot as I'm driving around out around our beautiful countryside. Actually, John Denver is saved as a favorite in my TH-cam music! 🎶 I even still have that 8 track tape!
As long as it has the V6 I would have purchased it too, this Cimarron is nicely appointed. Sure it isn’t a D’Elegance, who cares, I’m no snob, I’d certainly drive one! You did good Adam.
I discovered the same thing about those visor mounted vanity mirrors. I had used Caddy from the early 1990s and a 1974 Continental Mark IV. Same, same. All same lol. And for all those years too.
Days like that in the springtime are so nice when I was growing up in Central Illinois. The smells as you drive along the road, smelling the first fresh cut grass of the season, and the blooming trees. However, wait tell summer with the humidity and temps! 😅
The Moore dealership has been in St. Louis for a long time. It's hard to imagine the pride Moore had for this automobile when it was on the showroom floor sitting beside the 1986 XJS V12 Jaguar. 😀
Moore, Clinton, and Lindbergh were the prestige St. Louis Cadillac dealers of a generation past. The Moore family of dealerships suffered a very public and sad demise ending in bankruptcy and the silver jaguar on their sign being repossessed about a dozen years ago. KSHE, "Real Rock Radio" lives on!
@@dengoethe2255 Raised in Florissant, I have to mention Jim Lynch Cadillac, not sure how prestigious they were lol, but that's the one I remember the most for many years ;-)
The Caviler convertibles were cool looking. Remember a customer at a pub I worked at had a 4 cylinder, kept it one week, exchanged it for a six cylinder. Could floor the 4 cylinder and it would hardly move, he said.
Lol now i get to see the "shakedown" ' _PREview REview_ ' Of Adams Cimarron...cool to see you lending your hand to a fellow carguy🤜🤛...cool color too and with 9kmiles👌INSANE FIND!!!
@@willc5512 I wonder if the torque converter clutch solenoid failed and it wasn't in lockup. I remember the TCC solenoid going bad on my parent's 84 Celebrity with the TH125 3 speed auto. It would fail to disengage and stall the car when coming to a stop. Dad and I rigged up a kill switch so it would not engage. It turned more rpm but at least we could drive it until we got the solenoid replaced.
Interesting was the development of the Cimarron and how limited the guys at GM were with the resources at hand. There's a YT-story out there about this. Given what they could do, they did well. Highly insightful.
As a former owner of an 85 Cavalier (it was my first car!) the Cimarron is very familiar to me as well! That turn signal is probably just a burnt out bulb, and all 4 window regulators would benefit from a good cleaning and lube with new lithium grease. As a side note, even with the slight miss, the car was so quiet and smooth that I didnt even realize that it was still running in the video until you popped the hood! A good tune-up and cleaning of the injectors usually takes care of that slight miss. I enjoyed your video and as a fan of Adam's channel as well, I can't wait to see his fearures on it!
My grandma bought one. 2 years later my second "grandfather" said it wasnt a cadilac. My mom told her as well. Got it for $100, drove it twice, sat for a year till my sister could drive. She was happy. My second grandfather bought my grandmother a fullfleged Lincoln
There appears to be some leather trim on the sides of those front seats so there's still gonna be some of the disadvantages Mr. Adam has spoken of regarding that material. But no matter. What a fantastic discovery! So coooool. I can't wait to see how Cadillac/GM justifies the huge leap in price over the base models from Chevy, etc.
Mom's sister had one of them. She had it for a little more than a month and it was totaled in an accident. I was t-boned by an early 70's Chrysler Newport.
21:55 Those non-recessed wipers sat so neatly on the J-cars and A-cars, probably thanks to that funky reversing-motor retracting mechanism GM used in those years.
Yeah, Cavalier. Very interesting for car buffs and collectors, but it's a Chevy with a lot of options. Love his videos (and yours) that's the only reason I'm watching this lol.
The Cimarron looks more like a special Cavalier. I had a silver 1984 Cavalier, looked like a mini Impala of the time, and never had a problem with it. Ample power from the 2.0, good road manners and NO torque steer. Was far beyond the improvised X-cars. Only AMC could build a decent compact from big car parts. But I digress. Cavalier wasn't a race car, never intended to be, but it could move. Got a speeding ticket near Tallahassee doing 85 in a 55 on the damned Interstate.
Tune it and fix the miss and that car will FLY!! My mom had a 86 or 87 and I used to love driving it!! She never had any problems but it will have rust issues under the paint in the back around the wheel wells area. Another funny thing is I found completely by chance the electrical wiring harness is the same for the Cavalier and the Cimarron and on the Cavalier if it came with manual windows the electrical plug was there it was just pushed back into the door! When my Mom got a new car she gave that Cimarron to my little brother and he had it for quite a while before something else caught his eye. Anyway. Enjoy and don't take any crapola from anyone about owning that beautiful car!!! 😊
Hey hi thanks for helping out Adam. I clicked liked and subscribed. Over the next week or so I will watch some of your videos. Not only that but we now know Adam has another video to make on his new car
Thank you again! Please check out this link and let me know what you think of this one. Adam wants it awful bad. 🤣 th-cam.com/video/MJRFv_vpFn8/w-d-xo.html
That was a FUN video and I'm glad you picked it up! It has a nice instrument cluster for a slightly restyled and reengineered economy car. It's very clear and shows a lot more than the usual idiot lights - more than most other Cadillacs I've seen. I think it's got a much nicer interior than some modern expensive electric cars that shall go nameless. Overall, that's a car I would still drive today. A little TLC, maybe some new shocks and tires, a paint correction and that car will GLEAM. The engine compartment that clean is a minor miracle (vacuum operated cruise that still works after 37 years? astounding!) and I didn't even know it was running for a while there - quiet engine! Who else googled Moore Cadillac/Pontiac/Jaguar in Ellisville MO? They're permanently closed now according to The Cloud. That's a very clean car for anything from 1986. How was your mileage?
@@tonyscarcare5657 That was the right thing to do. One other thing: as a Cadillac, I expected to see fake wood all around the instrument cluster, which I don't like at all (unless it's REALLY GOOD) and I thought the subtle waffle pattern was much more appropriate. It can probably be removed easily (as you say) and repainted also. Maybe I'm just getting old but I actually really dig that little car and I hope Adam has a lot of fun with it. For sure it's a nice grocery go-getter with some style and retro flair.
Almost as nice as my 84 Cimarron with the factory luggage rack and Astroroof! Good luck trying to find those front bumper end caps. They don't reproduce them and these cars aren't in salvage yards anymore. I had to painstakingly repair mine when they started to crack
I have never seen a Cimarron in blue( which is one of my favorite GM colors along with the green interiors) not even in the early 80s almost all were Gold, Brown, Green or Red. I love the analog full gauge cluster I get Adams concern about the digital cluster would likely be an expensive repair if needed. I remember GMs symphony sound in grandmothers 1985 Caprice Classic and that was impressive sound for the mid 80s.
So cool!!! The town where you picked up the Cadillac was Lebanon, Illinois. I Lived there when I was in college! I’m pretty sure you drove up RT 4 in the following scenes. Also know Mullberry Grove pretty well, just south of Vandalia. Neat video!!!
Interestingly the CHMSL ('86 was first year) was not moved to the rear 'bar' or higher in the rear backlite since this car has the trunk lid luggage rack. Anything put there will likely block the CHMSL. Perhaps the rack was a DIO. BTW Curbside Classics has a write up: Cadillac Cimarron - Flagship Of Mediocrity
That road noise you mention, still quieter than any economy car today. You can't even speak on a cell phone as a passenger in most new cars because of the tire roar
Everyone I know that had one loved it, when this came out there really wasn't a loaded with leather small car. Should have a 2.8 V6 so it should run along just fine on a freeway after good tires and a alinement. I noticed this car has fabric interior, so must be a pretty base model, all the ones I saw had leather
Back in the day, nobody ever said to their friend, "hey man that is a nice Cadillac" in reference to the Cimmeron. It was more like, "why's that Cavalier trying so hard?"
You got lucky with those original tires . Decades old tires often come apart while driving , and it often does serious damage to the car's sheet metal .
I was not told those were the original tires until after I got home. The guy told me he was driving it back and forth to work. I also would have never guessed the car came out with white lettered tires. I was shocked when Adam told me that!
Not the best weather here in central IL also today. I paid less for my '84 Olds Cutlass Supreme Brougham. I test drove a Cimarron but for what they wanted I could get more with the Olds.
@@tonyscarcare5657 The '84 Eldorado Biarritz I have the sales contract on it was about $28K and if anyone wanted an entry level Cadillac their only choice was the Cimarron. GM was asking too much and offering not much value for the price. GM had other mid sized cars like the Olds Cutlass, Buick Regal, Monte Carlo, etc. that you could get more for your money and a better ride.
@@tonyscarcare5657 There were the die hard buy American people back then that refused to buy the smaller foreign cars is probably why. As I recall there were few and far between foreign car dealers back then. Adam was lucky to find this one. I rarely see them for sale and what I have seen are junk. I watched yours and Adam's video on the Lincoln Town Car. I've been looking at one in FL a dealer has. As I recall about 3K miles on it. Orginally from around Moline IL. I want to retire and offload my GMC Duramax diesel truck and get a good depenable car.
McsMark1: Cavalier was NOT Yugo but an okay US small car. Cimarron to Cavalier was like the song, 🎶 "Put your shoes on Lucy, you're in the city now..." 🎵 - sort of.
Nice find. I haven't seen those cimarrons, cavaliers in years😂
I am a Gen Xer & I remember when these came out & we all laughed & hated them.
I'm happy to see that they are now being saved from junkyards.
I love how everything is connected. I watch Adam's channel regularly and he mentioned two days ago he was getting the Cimarron.
Awesome! Thank you very much for watching!
Thank was so kind of you. That is kind of you to help Adam out and get his car for him. Thank you for sharing the journey and process. Adam will get it looking great and issues resolved.
You're welcome, and thank you!
Thanks Tony!
You're welcome. Thank you, Adam!
😱
I absolutely love Adam's collection and we haven't seen every car that he has. I was born in 1959, so I've been able to ride in many of them when they were new.
Me too! Please check out some of mine. th-cam.com/video/CvIZbnTDbGk/w-d-xo.html
I owned a Cimarron from my junior year in high school to my final year in college.
I had done chores and run errands for a neighbor who bought it brand new.
When she could no longer drive, she gifted it to me.
It was five years old and had less than 10k miles.
She even replaced all the tires!
I drove it an additional 140k miles until it was rear-ended at a stoplight and totaled.
Never failed to start or left me stranded despite a lot of deferred maintenance and the installation of junkyard parts.
Hardly the greatest vehicle I have ever owned but not as bad as urban legend suggests.
Wow that's great!
That's a nice neighbor. Glad you helped her out. And you got a lot of miles and years from the car. How cool
My story with a Cimarron owner when I was working at an independent shop in 1990 as a tech-They get real angry when you ask them to move their Cavalier so you can pull a car out of a stall being blocked. It was an honest hurried mistake and not one intended to upset a paying customer.
That's hilarious! 🤣😂
🤣👍👍
As a HUGE fan of Adam… It was cool to see the car you picked up for him.
However…
I LOVED your commentary!
I really really enjoyed your stories , and the drive thru the countryside. I found myself searching for your beautiful town, your tranquil countryside on Google Maps.
As someone who lives in the Miami, Florida area….
It is refreshing to see this countryside.
And as is the case with Adam…. Your voice is relaxing to listen too.
Great video.
THANKS!!!
Awww.....thank you very much! I really appreciate it! Maybe I can do some more country driving videos.
@@tonyscarcare5657 you should😊
@@sneakerfreak2002 thanks. I probably will.
That was so nice of you to help our boy Adam out!
My pleasure! I've got to work on several of Adam's cars.
Amazing video, I'm a big fan of Adam's work. Beautiful example of a Cimarron. I loved the beautiful scenery and your memories. I googled an inflation calculator and you're right. $18,455 in 1986 is $40,175 in 2023.
Thank you very much!
@@tonyscarcare5657 You're very welcome.
It appears that they paid full sticker price? Crazy at that time.
@@wincrasher2007 That would be crazy!
Nice scenery on the road trip.
That Cavalier - I think it's like having a boat. There's only 2 good days with them. The day you get it and the day you get rid of it.
Thank you very much!
Re: Power windows: Take a q-tip, load it up with white lithium grease INTO the window channels and run the windows up and down a few times. You will notice the motors strain less and move faster.
I have a mint 25,000 mile Cimarron. Haven’t uploaded it yet but it is. Terrific car. Glad Adam found one. He was interested in mine but I wanted to keep it. Mine is cream, 2.8 leather. Same year model. Congrats Adam and you are a good friend for helping out Tony.
Great video too Tony.
Thank you very much, buddy!
@@tonyscarcare5657 Thanks Tony. I’ve reached out to Adam separately on the front bumper fillers if he is getting some done as I need a couple too. Loving your videos on the 68’s too.
@@markbehr88 awesome! Please stay tuned.
@@tonyscarcare5657 Will do.
The ever-rare leather/wool interior which was a no-cost option and was in reality a leather delete, since leather was standard. This is such a nice example, dream interior, but I’d love a white one with blue wool/leather.
It’s in incredible condition for a 37-year-old car. It’s like a time capsule.
Yes, it sure is!
It is a worthless POS people paid TWICE than its CHEVY CAVALIER TWIN. IT RUINED THE CADDY BRAND. WISE UP./
You take care of cars, this is what you get.
@@manoman0 It's a shit-box, throw-away car (which is why you never see any on the road) and I can't imagine why Adam wanted one.
You worked on power windows. I'm restoring my 88 Mazda MX 6 gt turbo with stick and need a left power window regulator. These parts are hard to find now.
My little special friend still has the original paint job, and looks great in its original ticket red. One owner, moi. Still drives well, with the built in torque oversteer 😂
Internet is the only place I'd know to look.
A surprise treat, touring us around areas of your youth! Reminded me of the great, lamented John Denver: 🎶 "Country roads, take me home to the place I was born..."🎵
Awww, thank you! I, too, think of that song a lot as I'm driving around out around our beautiful countryside. Actually, John Denver is saved as a favorite in my TH-cam music! 🎶 I even still have that 8 track tape!
@@tonyscarcare5657 I play Denver on piano as part of my many programs in senior care homes.
You're a good friend to help Adam, and also, thanks for posting.
Thank you very much! And thank you for watching!
Thanks for the beautiful drive Tony!! Much more interesting than the car.
You're welcome, and thank you!
even the basic Delco systems sounded good back then for factory systems
Wow, I had an 83 Cavalier with the same blue interior. Brings back memories.
I bet so!
As long as it has the V6 I would have purchased it too, this Cimarron is nicely appointed. Sure it isn’t a D’Elegance, who cares, I’m no snob, I’d certainly drive one! You did good Adam.
Thank you! There seems to be a lot of haters on here. 😔
No snob, yet you drive a Cadillac.😄
I discovered the same thing about those visor mounted vanity mirrors. I had used Caddy from the early 1990s and a 1974 Continental Mark IV. Same, same. All same lol. And for all those years too.
Wow! I just learned it.
It was a bit of a powerhouse for back in the day. It’s basically a Cavalier Z24 sedan with the 2.8 V6
What a great looking car! Yes it's basically a Cavalier with a Cadillac badge on it.
That is some beautiful country.
Thank you! It's not so bad out here.
Days like that in the springtime are so nice when I was growing up in Central Illinois. The smells as you drive along the road, smelling the first fresh cut grass of the season, and the blooming trees. However, wait tell summer with the humidity and temps! 😅
Wow, beautiful landscape and drive!
Thank you!
The Moore dealership has been in St. Louis for a long time. It's hard to imagine the pride Moore had for this automobile when it was on the showroom floor sitting beside the 1986 XJS V12 Jaguar. 😀
Lol!
Moore, Clinton, and Lindbergh were the prestige St. Louis Cadillac dealers of a generation past. The Moore family of dealerships suffered a very public and sad demise ending in bankruptcy and the silver jaguar on their sign being repossessed about a dozen years ago. KSHE, "Real Rock Radio" lives on!
@@dengoethe2255 Raised in Florissant, I have to mention Jim Lynch Cadillac, not sure how prestigious they were lol, but that's the one I remember the most for many years ;-)
A lot of the interior looks like my 88 Eldorado. The luggage rack is the same too. Nice find.
Blast from the past great condition but definitely a conversation piece
The Caviler convertibles were cool looking. Remember a customer at a pub I worked at had a 4 cylinder, kept it one week, exchanged it for a six cylinder. Could floor the 4 cylinder and it would hardly move, he said.
I forgot about those!
@@tonyscarcare5657 Too bad they did not make any Cimarron convertibles. Now that would be a collector's item!
@Scott C. yes, it definitely would be!
A cavilac I used to work on them under warranty. Tons of work. Chevy caviler with leather. Fun times
Lol now i get to see the "shakedown"
' _PREview REview_ ' Of Adams Cimarron...cool to see you lending your hand to a fellow carguy🤜🤛...cool color too and with
9kmiles👌INSANE FIND!!!
Thank you!
It just a rebadged Chevy Cavalier. The interior reminds me of my grandma's Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera and my bbf's moms old buick century.
I like how it still has the old fashioned wiper blades.
Those are getting hard to find!
Clean. I was watching the tach since the cavaliers of that era didnt have one. 2500 rpm at 55 & still loosing speed on the hill. Guess no overdrive.😁
I thought that was high RPM, too, for what should be a 4 speed auto.
@@LongIslandMopars I got a 1.4L in cruze running a manual tranny & tach 1800 @ 60 Literally half the motor in a heavier car 1000 rpm less🤣
@@willc5512 I wonder if the torque converter clutch solenoid failed and it wasn't in lockup. I remember the TCC solenoid going bad on my parent's 84 Celebrity with the TH125 3 speed auto. It would fail to disengage and stall the car when coming to a stop. Dad and I rigged up a kill switch so it would not engage. It turned more rpm but at least we could drive it until we got the solenoid replaced.
Interesting was the development of the Cimarron and how limited the guys at GM were with the resources at hand. There's a YT-story out there about this. Given what they could do, they did well. Highly insightful.
You are going to become intimately acquainted with that Shop Manual.
I bet so!
I'm very fond of the first Gen Cavi and have had them and 1 Cimarron and like the Cimarron as well
As a former owner of an 85 Cavalier (it was my first car!) the Cimarron is very familiar to me as well! That turn signal is probably just a burnt out bulb, and all 4 window regulators would benefit from a good cleaning and lube with new lithium grease. As a side note, even with the slight miss, the car was so quiet and smooth that I didnt even realize that it was still running in the video until you popped the hood! A good tune-up and cleaning of the injectors usually takes care of that slight miss. I enjoyed your video and as a fan of Adam's channel as well, I can't wait to see his fearures on it!
Thank you very much!
Ahhhh... the Cadarron... makes the Versailles look like a success!!!
Maybe.
That interior looks very familiar. :-) That was actually a pretty nice platform. It was nicer than a lot of small cars of the era.
Looks like quite a find! Excited to see it in Adam's hands. I know he'll return it to it's original glory. That Town Car you have is impressive.
Thank you very much!
Lovin the country drive !!
Thank you very much!
The last time I recall seeing one of these on the road was in late 1996.
I like the 68 LTD that was in the driveway, itlooks nice.
Thank you! Check out this one. th-cam.com/video/CvIZbnTDbGk/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for taking along on this adventure. Not something I'd buy but still interesting since I remember these new😊
Cimarron, Allanté, Cattera, XLR...and the beat goes on.
I had an 82 and 88 Cimarron by Cadillac. Major difference. I always wanted another 88 with a sunroof and that DELCO/BOSE SYSTEM
I'd really like to see one with a moonroof.
They were the same flip roofs as the 87 Chevrolet Cavalier cl Z24
@@joseduranjr4963 ho. Yuk!
my favorite caddy
My grandma bought one. 2 years later my second "grandfather" said it wasnt a cadilac. My mom told her as well. Got it for $100, drove it twice, sat for a year till my sister could drive. She was happy. My second grandfather bought my grandmother a fullfleged Lincoln
Wow. I'm sure there was no comparison to that Lincoln!
Awfully nice of you to do that Adam!
There appears to be some leather trim on the sides of those front seats so there's still gonna be some of the disadvantages Mr. Adam has spoken of regarding that material. But no matter. What a fantastic discovery! So coooool. I can't wait to see how Cadillac/GM justifies the huge leap in price over the base models from Chevy, etc.
This is what the Cavalier should have been. Like the channel.
Thank you!
You nailed it. That’s $39,655 in todays dollars!
I've looked up a lot of things like that. My 89 Town Car would be over $60k in today's money.
@@tonyscarcare5657 hey a Hyundai Sonata is pushing 50k
@@invinoveritas8704 sad!
Man this is great! Thanks for helpin a guy out ! It will be in great hands.
It was my pleasure! Thank you for watching. Yep, I'm sure Adam will keep us all updated on it.
Mom's sister had one of them. She had it for a little more than a month and it was totaled in an accident. I was t-boned by an early 70's Chrysler Newport.
Dang!
21:55 Those non-recessed wipers sat so neatly on the J-cars and A-cars, probably thanks to that funky reversing-motor retracting mechanism GM used in those years.
It is a little cream puff! Nice of you to retrieve it for Adam, Tony.
Thank you!
My grandmother 's '87 Olds Calais had the same problem with the power antenna. It got stuck in the up position and bent by a brush in a car wash.
Very common back then. I liked the Ford antennas that you raised and lowered with a separate switch.
Yeah, Cavalier. Very interesting for car buffs and collectors, but it's a Chevy with a lot of options. Love his videos (and yours) that's the only reason I'm watching this lol.
😂🤣😂🤣 thank you!
Tony,I actually seen a 1983 on a showroom floor at a Cadillac dealership in central Florida The city this car was in Leesburg Florida ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Cool!
Ashtray! Lol! Was nice of you to help Adam out. Glad you and the tire survived
Why did I keep calling the lighter the ashtray?! Crazy 🤪
@@tonyscarcare5657 😂 It was a funny moment in the end. Take care
@@bobcoats2708 thank you!
Looks great !
I love the Cadillac CIMARRON 2.8Liter V6 I would had one of those too. V6 the best engine
The Cimarron looks more like a special Cavalier. I had a silver 1984 Cavalier, looked like a mini Impala of the time, and never had a problem with it. Ample power from the 2.0, good road manners and NO torque steer. Was far beyond the improvised X-cars. Only AMC could build a decent compact from big car parts. But I digress. Cavalier wasn't a race car, never intended to be, but it could move. Got a speeding ticket near Tallahassee doing 85 in a 55 on the damned Interstate.
Tune it and fix the miss and that car will FLY!! My mom had a 86 or 87 and I used to love driving it!! She never had any problems but it will have rust issues under the paint in the back around the wheel wells area. Another funny thing is I found completely by chance the electrical wiring harness is the same for the Cavalier and the Cimarron and on the Cavalier if it came with manual windows the electrical plug was there it was just pushed back into the door! When my Mom got a new car she gave that Cimarron to my little brother and he had it for quite a while before something else caught his eye. Anyway. Enjoy and don't take any crapola from anyone about owning that beautiful car!!! 😊
Thanks, buddy. There sure seems to be some haters on here for sure.
Oh for the love of that white Lincoln. Land yacht!
Please stay tuned for the Lincoln.
@@tonyscarcare5657 Cool. I remember that back here in NY everywhere. Closest I came to a cushy FoMoCo ride was an 89 Crown Vic.
@@LongIslandMopars here's a link to my 89 Town Car. th-cam.com/video/t9nNmfhMN4o/w-d-xo.html
Hey hi thanks for helping out Adam. I clicked liked and subscribed. Over the next week or so I will watch some of your videos. Not only that but we now know Adam has another video to make on his new car
That's very true. Thank you very much!
Oh man and I love your f150. Long bed 4x4 reg cab. Only kinda truck
Thank you again! Please check out this link and let me know what you think of this one. Adam wants it awful bad. 🤣 th-cam.com/video/MJRFv_vpFn8/w-d-xo.html
My Great Uncle Bob had a 1989 one in same color. Hurricane Hugo dropped a tree on it, it was totaled.
Dang!
That was a FUN video and I'm glad you picked it up! It has a nice instrument cluster for a slightly restyled and reengineered economy car. It's very clear and shows a lot more than the usual idiot lights - more than most other Cadillacs I've seen. I think it's got a much nicer interior than some modern expensive electric cars that shall go nameless. Overall, that's a car I would still drive today. A little TLC, maybe some new shocks and tires, a paint correction and that car will GLEAM. The engine compartment that clean is a minor miracle (vacuum operated cruise that still works after 37 years? astounding!) and I didn't even know it was running for a while there - quiet engine!
Who else googled Moore Cadillac/Pontiac/Jaguar in Ellisville MO? They're permanently closed now according to The Cloud. That's a very clean car for anything from 1986. How was your mileage?
Thank you. I did not check the mileage. Until the miss is corrected, it wouldn't really count.
@@tonyscarcare5657 That was the right thing to do. One other thing: as a Cadillac, I expected to see fake wood all around the instrument cluster, which I don't like at all (unless it's REALLY GOOD) and I thought the subtle waffle pattern was much more appropriate. It can probably be removed easily (as you say) and repainted also. Maybe I'm just getting old but I actually really dig that little car and I hope Adam has a lot of fun with it. For sure it's a nice grocery go-getter with some style and retro flair.
Almost as nice as my 84 Cimarron with the factory luggage rack and Astroroof! Good luck trying to find those front bumper end caps. They don't reproduce them and these cars aren't in salvage yards anymore. I had to painstakingly repair mine when they started to crack
I surprised there's room for the ASTRO roof.
Original tires? That explains the road noise.
Certainly, it isn't helping anything!
What a survivor.
Great colour
It really is!
I have never seen a Cimarron in blue( which is one of my favorite GM colors along with the green interiors) not even in the early 80s almost all were Gold, Brown, Green or Red. I love the analog full gauge cluster I get Adams concern about the digital cluster would likely be an expensive repair if needed.
I remember GMs symphony sound in grandmothers 1985 Caprice Classic and that was impressive sound for the mid 80s.
I was shocked at the sound.
So cool!!! The town where you picked up the Cadillac was Lebanon, Illinois. I Lived there when I was in college! I’m pretty sure you drove up RT 4 in the following scenes. Also know Mullberry Grove pretty well, just south of Vandalia. Neat video!!!
That's awesome, man. And yes, you guessed the exact and complete route!
Just for reference the msrp for an 87 Cavalier Z24 was about $7500. Obviously The Cimarron was a profitable car for GM
Wow!
Nice Thunderbird.
No Thunderbirds here.
68 LTD looks nice.
Thank you! I have a video of it.
Very nice!
Thank you!
Chevy Cavalier with leather seats. Not hating honest. Great car.
Nice car
It's Looks like Opel Ascona was sale in Europe and middle east 😮
I had an opel ascona c and all gm j bodies are too good for me, and the caddy is definitely at the top of the list
It's funny. I was working at an Amoco too the first time I ever saw one of these, in the 1980s.
Lol. My long lost twin! 🤣
HELP has a set of window clips that has a bunch of different size clips for the windows…
Interestingly the CHMSL ('86 was first year) was not moved to the rear 'bar' or higher in the rear backlite since this car has the trunk lid luggage rack. Anything put there will likely block the CHMSL. Perhaps the rack was a DIO.
BTW Curbside Classics has a write up: Cadillac Cimarron - Flagship Of Mediocrity
Also, KSHE95 is the best radio station in Southern Illinois by FAR!!!
Yes! I still have classic bumper stickers and a keychain from the 80s.
that's a lovely Chevy Cavalier with leather seats...😅
That road noise you mention, still quieter than any economy car today. You can't even speak on a cell phone as a passenger in most new cars because of the tire roar
It's pretty dang bad!
FYI Tony , I could swear I remember that those screws on those instrument panels are fake so don't touch them until you've confirmed it
Thanks. I would definitely know to check that first.
@@tonyscarcare5657 I know you would,,,,, I panicked.... lol
@@tonyscarcare5657Tony, don’t ruin my priceless Cimalier!
@@RareClassicCars 🤣😂🤣😂
Cattle crab is what I called my mom's Cimarron LOL
Not bad for a cavalier...lol!
Everyone I know that had one loved it, when this came out there really wasn't a loaded with leather small car. Should have a 2.8 V6 so it should run along just fine on a freeway after good tires and a alinement. I noticed this car has fabric interior, so must be a pretty base model, all the ones I saw had leather
Back in the day, nobody ever said to their friend, "hey man that is a nice Cadillac" in reference to the Cimmeron.
It was more like, "why's that Cavalier trying so hard?"
I'm sure you are correct!
You got lucky with those original tires . Decades old tires often come apart while driving , and it often does serious damage to the car's sheet metal .
I was not told those were the original tires until after I got home. The guy told me he was driving it back and forth to work. I also would have never guessed the car came out with white lettered tires. I was shocked when Adam told me that!
Not the best weather here in central IL also today. I paid less for my '84 Olds Cutlass Supreme Brougham. I test drove a Cimarron but for what they wanted I could get more with the Olds.
I bet so!
@@tonyscarcare5657 The '84 Eldorado Biarritz I have the sales contract on it was about $28K and if anyone wanted an entry level Cadillac their only choice was the Cimarron. GM was asking too much and offering not much value for the price. GM had other mid sized cars like the Olds Cutlass, Buick Regal, Monte Carlo, etc. that you could get more for your money and a better ride.
@Tim W I'm surprised they built them as long as they did!
@@tonyscarcare5657 There were the die hard buy American people back then that refused to buy the smaller foreign cars is probably why. As I recall there were few and far between foreign car dealers back then. Adam was lucky to find this one. I rarely see them for sale and what I have seen are junk. I watched yours and Adam's video on the Lincoln Town Car. I've been looking at one in FL a dealer has. As I recall about 3K miles on it. Orginally from around Moline IL. I want to retire and offload my GMC Duramax diesel truck and get a good depenable car.
@Tim W well, I can assure you that Lincoln will be dependable! Thank you very much for watching!
McsMark1: Cavalier was NOT Yugo but an okay US small car. Cimarron to Cavalier was like the song, 🎶 "Put your shoes on Lucy, you're in the city now..." 🎵 - sort of.
I agree.....it's not a bad little car. Like when Linus told Charlie Brown, he never did think it was sush a bad little tree.