Once in the early/mid 1970s, while walking through a remote junk yard well off the beaten path, I stumbled across an old Cadillac convertible rotting away in the grass. The top was long since gone, only the framework remaining. The floorboards were completely rusted out, grass and saplings growing into the passenger compartment where all that remained of the seats was rusting coil springs. One of the few areas that were not badly rusted were the stainless steel trim panels behind the rear wheels.
The hood was open and the air filter was rusting away in the grass beside what remained of the car.
It was a Tri-Power and, at the time, I did not know that Cadillac had ever offered Tri-Power engines.
At the time, I knew that it was not a 58 and expected that it was a 57. If so, it must have been a 57 El Dorado, a million dollar car today.
Before I had a drivers license, while visiting the same junk yard 5-10 years previously with a friend and his father, I looked into a small wooden shed where engines and transmissions were piled. I noticed a Chevrolet six cylinder engine with a cast iron power glide transmission and three carburetors sticking out from the side of the cylinder head. I had never heard of side draft carburetors at the time, and only years later figured out that it was a 53 or 54 Corvette engine.
The little junk yard has been gone for over thirty years and, no doubt, both the El Dorado and the Corvette six cylinder engine went to the scrappers decades ago.
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