Update

Not much too report - just been driving the Caddy on the weekends in mixed city/highway driving. The car likes cruising at about 70 and doesn't mind getting pushed up to 90 for passing.

I have got to get the rear suspension fixed - I need new shocks all around, and new springs in the back. Complicating matters a bit, the automatic level control system was disconnected sometime in the past. That system raised & lowered the back of the car according to load, so that if a bunch of people were piled in the back seat, or there was a lot of stuff in the trunk, the car would still ride level.

Also, springs for later Eldorados are easily available, but for 71-73 they are harder to find. Apparently, increasingly stringent bumper safety standards between 1971 & 1976 caused the front and back of the cars to become heavier and the suspensions were reworked a bit.

Anyway, I think I've got some sources for springs and shocks - I just need to make some calls to see if they are going to be compatible with the load-leveling being deactivated. It doesn't look too hard to do, but all the bolts are pretty rusted so it could take a while to get them off.

I was hoping to replace the control arm bushings, but it looks like specialized tools are needed - perhaps the whole control arms have to be replaced. That gets into some real money, so I'm hoping adding the springs and shocks will get the ride where I want it to be (and will stop scraping off chunks of the exhaust system when I go over a speed bump).

I did get the radio out of the glove compartment - its now velcroed under the dash. And I got speaker boxes for the front speakers, so it sounds pretty okay now. I still need to hook up an auxilliary power supply so the radio will remember its settings - was going to take the one from the clock, but since that requires removal of the whole dashboard, I might just use the wire from the cigarette lighter.

That's it for now.