[Heybuck]

He will be landing in LA but is prepared to go anywhere if he can find the right car.

His plan is to pick up the car and start driving. They will be attending a Cadillac festival (not sure where that is??), but the festival will be worked into their driving holiday.

Ultimately they will drive it to Long Beach CA to ship it back here. Another possibility is they will leave it at a Portland OR address and another freind of ours may use it late in the year. I might even get involved in it myself.

Collectively, we are thinking that if we can buy a decent car which will take us anywhere reliably, the costs of purchasing it are going to be much less than if cars are hired. You Americans have some crazy charges in car rental. Your drop-off fees are off the planet. So owning and leaving the car over there is starting to make sense.

The Cadillac in question has the HT4100 engine. That simple fact is almost certainly going to work in our favour as we know this engine is very poorly rated by most buyers. Yet we (our group of freinds) have had some experiance with these engines and we know that they are quite OK IF they have been correctly maintained. All indications are leading to say this one has been looked after very well.