It took me a minute to figure out what Junkyard Digs’ latest field find reminded me of. I couldn’t picture the Bronco that it used to be, and I certainly couldn’t picture a slope-backed Seville in any kind of off-road sense that didn’t involve a monster truck parked on top of it. But after seeing the Caddy actually playing in the sand at Silver Lake, it became clear I was thinking of two toys from my past. First and foremost, it makes me think of an old Stompers car come to life. The car that should not be that tall, should not sound that beefy, should not be that comfortable…yep, it might have the patina of the Stompers that was at the bottom of the toy car box, but it looks the part. The other past toy the Seville makes me think of is an old R/C car I had. The body was mid-1970s Chevrolet Blazer in red, and it wasn’t that thin-plastic stuff like you see today. This thing had weight, the body was solid, and the four-wheel-drive system was legitimate. And yes, it was rocking those sweet turbine wheels on BFG off-road rubber.
Thinking about old toys is cool, but we’d rather have been in Kevin’s place, romping this affront to everybody’s idea of “good taste” in the sand until the sun was setting. So what if the 460 is so out-of-time that all you can hear is rattle-can levels of pinging whenever the throttle is pushed over halfway because the distributor is frozen into the block? All that tells us is that a little bit of work back at the ranch later and this Caddy could launch itself over the crest of a dune with no issue whatsoever.
Who wants to see this thing properly airborne? WE DO.
