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This car was owned by my wife's maternal grandmother. She sold it to her sister's grandson Larry in about 1978. Larry had the body work done and had enjoyed it for the past 42 odd years, driving it around rural Minnesota to car shows and the like. As is our tradition at 74NovaMan's garage, we have chosen a name for our newest addition. Teresa's grandmothers name was Annie, so it seems only fitting that the car should share the name. While Teresa remembers riding in the Caddy with grandma behind the wheel, I first saw her on the day of Annie's funeral when Larry drove her ashes from the church to the cemetery. If I remember correctly, he had just got it back from the body shop and had to thrash a bit to make it happen. That was 1994.
Fast forward to 2015. We were on vacation in the Florida Keys and talking about family cars (we had just finished dad's mustang in 2014) and we wondered if the Caddy was still in the family. We called Teresa's mom who called another relative and in fairly short order we had Larry's phone number, as well as an indication that he probably still had the car. We made contact and he did still have the car and would consider selling it to us. Larry sent us some pictures and we set a date to go take a look. Here are a few of the pictures from our first visit:
Fast forward to 2015. We were on vacation in the Florida Keys and talking about family cars (we had just finished dad's mustang in 2014) and we wondered if the Caddy was still in the family. We called Teresa's mom who called another relative and in fairly short order we had Larry's phone number, as well as an indication that he probably still had the car. We made contact and he did still have the car and would consider selling it to us. Larry sent us some pictures and we set a date to go take a look. Here are a few of the pictures from our first visit:
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