Heads Up: 40 NOS Cadillac Flathead Engines $5,000.00

[Ed Landstrom]

I have a Cadillac flathead V-8 car engine with Hydramatic, both rebuilt and never used. It's in a '47 Cadillac sedan. I also have a '42 Cadillac sedan. My plan was to build the '42 as a staff car, using the '47 for parts, but I got old and this is one of the projects I've admitted I won't finish (or even start).

One of the previous owners of the '47 is supposed to have paid $7000 to have the engine and transmission rebuilt, and there's been quite a bit of inflation since then. I was planning to ask $3500 for everything, half the price of the rebuild, but judging by the comments in this thread, I should ask for a lot more. Now $3500 sounds dirt cheap, even if you just wanted the engine and transmission and planned to throw away the cars. You could probably recover a large part of your cost by parting out the cars and end up with an engine and transmission for next to nothing.

The cars are in southwestern Ontario, between Windsor and London.