As side note, it might be useful to post the deductibility question re your purchase and intended use, in GQ as a separate question.
I’ll do that, thanks for the suggestion.
Great thread, love the car. 
Thanks.
I bet your’s is too!
:rolleyes: ::groan::, is this how doper couples start?
How long will it take to restore the car? I can’t wait to see it. There are few cars worse than an old clunker like that that barely runs and looks like crap, and there are few cars better than a sweet ride like that done right.
Great job, Tuckerfan! I love everything about road trips, but I don’t get to do them enough myself. 
So, I like to live vicariously (sp?) through others and I’m a sucker for a good road trip story with pictures. You made even the typical mundanity of the road trip interesting. Although I’ll pass, next time, on pictures of urinals, thank you very much! Kudos!
Dangit! Wish I had known you were coming out here. I could have even checked out the car in advance for you. The Walyworld you got all your car supplies from is all of four minutes from my house! :smack:
And, of course, then I could have shown you what a really big car looks like: http://www.100megsfree4.com/cadillac/cad1960/1968/eldo68d.jpg (not mine, but mine looks the same).
I used to have a '63 Newport. My best buddy had a 72. His was bigger than mine. He called it “The Sponge”, because it was big, yellow, dripped a lot, and sucked up all his money.
It would appear that there is a wide swath of Kansas that is now bugless thanks to your windshield.
Actually, hillbilly’s married, so…
I’m hoping to have it done within three years, but it all depends upon my cashflow situation. Of course, I doubt that I’ll ever really be done with the car, as I intend to make a bunch of improvements to the car (Car nuts, don’t panic! There’s nothing I hate worse than someone who takes a nice old car and hacks it up so that it can’t be easily restored to factory condition. Everything I do will be easily correctable by someone wishing to return the car to stock. Admittedly, some holes will have to be drilled in the body, but they’ll be patchable in a few moments with a welder. I hope, though, after I’m gone that the car winds up in a museum, or at least in the hands of a collector who respects the changes I’ve made or returns the vehicle to stock.) and no doubt each one will inspire me to make others.
Necros, oh yeah? You think so, huh? Well, check out the specs and get back to me on that. 
NurseCarmen, what the windshield didn’t get, probably got gassed by the oil spray. “The Sponge,” I like that.
Weight:
Newport, ~4200. Eldo, 4500+
Length:
Newport, 224", Eldo, 221", so you got me there.
So you’re bigger, I’m heaver. But may car moves a little bit, too.
Newport, 383CID, 255 HP
Eldo, 472CID, 325 HP, 525 TQ
Let’s call it a draw.