Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Rotting In Style - 1980 Cadillac Seville

abandoned 1980 cadillac seville sitka alaska rotting in style gm dylan benson














I figured I would temporarily take a break from Ketchikan, Alaska and head on over to Sitka where I found this perfect (Rotting in Style) example of a 1980 Cadillac Seville.  That’s right, the FIRST car in American to be equipped with a diesel engine standard.  I don’t know why I got excited about that.  I just figured you’d like to know if you didn’t already.

Anyway, this car does have the 5.7L diesel V8 that made a whiplash inducing 105 horsepower.  Wow, but again, this car is not made for power.  It’s made for luxury.  The interior is jam-packed with buttons and switches.  It even has an “information center”.  This particular car also comes with its own greenhouse system as you can see by the tree growing out of the driver side floorboard and the fungus or whatever it is growing out of the passenger side.

All kidding aside, this car came with a fully independent suspension, and four disk brakes.  Not only is that really cool stuff for the 80s, but still even for today’s standards.  This particular car is also rocking the chrome strip that runs along the side of the car.  This was an option back in 1980.  It even appears to have a thermometer on the driver side side view mirror.

It’s also rocking plenty of moss.  I have noticed this about a lot of abandoned things in Alaska.  If it’s not moving (or even if it moves only little), moss is growing on it.  This car also has an absurd amount of Cadillac badges.  The tail lights, trunk, side, mirrors, hubcaps, and more all have the badge or “Cadillac” on them.  We get it: it’s a Cadillac.

This car actually has some pretty cool styling.  I love the shape of 80s cars.  However, this car remains sitting in Alaska where it remains Rotting in Style.

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abandoned 1980 cadillac seville sitka alaska rotting in style gm dylan benson 

abandoned 1980 cadillac seville sitka alaska rotting in style gm dylan benson 

abandoned 1980 cadillac seville sitka alaska rotting in style gm dylan benson 

abandoned 1980 cadillac seville sitka alaska rotting in style gm dylan benson 

abandoned 1980 cadillac seville sitka alaska rotting in style gm dylan benson 

 abandoned 1980 cadillac seville sitka alaska rotting in style gm dylan benson

2 comments:

My parents had one of these that the diesel died in as the 5.7L gas converted to diesels engines did. We put a gas 5.7 in and drove it for a while rode nice but never
really liked the slant back on these. I guess it will continue to rust in peace in A.K.

The style grew on me, but filming the front, I was a little surprised when I walked around the back and saw that slant. But yes... She will sit here forever probably.

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