Nice! My uncle on moms side had a 76’ FWD Eldorado with the 500. We rebuilt the valve train and some of the engine. Then ran M1 0w40 with wix for while. Lots of gunk in it when brother bought it. Two whole box fills of eight tracks too
Yup, that FWD 500! Hers went through three transmissions. Those 8-tracks were great! She never put the top down because I guess the one time she did, she had put an ice scraper in the back and it broke the back window, so it was always top up.
Funny side story:
When the Caddy was in the shop for transmission #2 or #3, I must have been like 10. She had been driving my grandfather's '88 F-250 for the previous couple of weeks, which had a metric speedo (km/h).
We were headed up to the cottage and the speed limit for Highway 11 was (and still is) 90km/h.
We are sailing down 11 and my grandmother remarks to me how slow everybody is going. All of a sudden, there's OPP behind us and we get pulled over. Cop comes up to the window and the following exchange ensues:
Cop: Ma'am, do you have ANY idea how fast you were going?
Grandma: (indignant) Why yes Officer I do, I was doing the speed limit exactly, don't you have better things to do than be pulling over little old ladies?
Cop: (incredulous) how fast do you think you were going?
Grandma: 90, the limit is 90, and I was doing 90 (pointing to the 90 on the speedo)
Cop: *peers in* ma'am, that's MILES per hour!
Grandma: *embarrassed* Oh my, so it is! Well, this stupid car has been in the shop for the last few weeks and I've been driving my husband's truck. It's in kilometres, this is in miles and ugh, well, I got confused.
Cop: *laughing* OK ma'am, I understand, slow down and have a great rest of your day
Didn't even give us a ticket!