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Breakfast, Cadillac CTS-V pickup on Saturday, and He’s off

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I met Jim this morning for breakfast at The Egg & I.  We had a nice visit and a good repast.

We arrived at Boardwalk Porsche in good time and the car was ready to roll, tags on and keys in hand.  Jim pulled it out into the sun for photos.

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Next we took a quick confirmation test drive — all systems go.

There was a minor issue from the pre-purchase inspection at Crest Cadillac that one or more plastic push-pin rivets was missing from the underside air deflector.  I brought a few with me and pushed one back into the only place we found open.  I gave Jim some extras.

Jim and I paraded up the road to his hotel where he plans to pack-up, checkout, and put the navigation system on New Jersey and head East.

Hopefully we’ll get updates along the way as he progresses.  I asked him to remember to mention which state he is in if we need to send bail.

 

With help from TexasJim, Re-Tired

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Sunday after my tire incident the STS-V had been towed to Frank Kent Cadillac in Fort Worth (60 miles from home).

Sunday night TexasJim called to volunteer to join the STS-V at Frank Kent, which is his regular Dealer, and make sure they knew it was there, etc.  I hated to infringe on Jim’s time but the best thing to do when someone offers to help and you need help is say “yes!”

Jim arrived over at Frank Kent as soon as they opened, and discussed the situation.  They said nothing for it but new tires.  Jim trimmed the errant tread off the tire, then carefully drove it over to Discount Tire.  We had previously discussed this as an option.  He arrived there before they opened, but waited with the STS-V for them to open and serve the coffee.

Jim got me on the phone and we discussed options with the Discount Tire.  I had in mind some Hankook tires, but they would not arrive until Wed/Thurs, so we picked some Continental tires they had in stock.  Jim stayed with the Cadillac until the tires got on, and until I finally got through rush hour traffic to the tire place.  I dropped Jim back at Frank Kent, and ran home to my other appointments.

Jim’s help was terrific and instrumental in helping things along.  Thanks Jim!

Cars & Coffee Dallas 2011-06-04 Cadillac Report

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Headed over to Cars & Coffee Dallas at Classic BMW this morning.  The spirit of Cars & Coffee to me is everyone bringing out their ‘weekend’ cars, park them in a convenient spot, then walk around, look at cars, and chat with other people who enjoy chatting about cars.

Emily and Charlie brought out Emily’s 2006 Cadillac STS-V and parked the V and Charlie’s CrossFire Corvette next to my 2008 STS-V.  Emily and Charlie actually each have STS-V’s but were bringing the Vette out to show.  Loved their stories of various adventures traveling to research cars over the years.

You can tell the close family resemblance across the STS-V series years; the model was produced from 2006-2009.

Judging from the wheels, I think this is a 1992 Allante next to a 1996 Eldorado, both of which looked clean and well cared for.

I snapped this CTS Coupe in Black Diamond so you can see the very aggressive flaking in the black paint.   You can’t see the flakes at all without direct sunlight, then they literally glitter in the sun.

Classic Cadillacs were represented by this old school convertible Cadillac DeVille

Jesse DiGiroloma brought out his custom Cadillac DTS done by Jesse’s JD’s Custom Auto

 

with a full custom audio setup in the trunk.  They also offer other custom auto services such as video headrests and custom navigation system installs.

Looked like some very nice detail work on the whole setup.  Although I had guessed this setup was best for parking lot listening, actually the sound is channeled back into the Cadillac.

All in all it was a fun morning, and then I headed out to lunch at Freddy’s with Charlie from Burnoutradio.com, Berry from TeamHallnNaas.com, Sally Cannon from Cannon Academy of Money, LLC, and entourage (sorry I forgot one name).