Taht's a good looking car.  Light blue with a white interior would be preferable.

What does it need that will cost $15k?

For anyone interested...

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You really do realize that you are killing me, right? White and Blue Medici? 

It still needs $15k to make it right. My retirement is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more important than a car at this point.

I'm loving this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much.

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Those Krauts and Swedes own all of our old Cadillacs. They seem to be rolling in dough.

Imagine the shipping on a pair of heads to Germany? 

A German guy on the Toronado forum posted this:

a dear friend of mine owns several classic US vehicles, one of them is a 1950 Cadillac 4-door limo, Series 62.
We cannot locate a proper cylinder head (driver's side) as a replacement for the cracked one that he removed. The Cad still has the original engine.
The casting number shows 1454022-3
In case you know Cadillac buffs who might have a spare cylinder head (we would buy for both sides) or could lead to a source we would be more than happy.
Pls contact me at
michaelwoenne@yahoo.com
I have PayPal for a smooth transaction, all fees would be covered.
As long as this ad is unaltered, we did not find a replacement cylinder head.
Thank you very much for your help, it is appreciated very much.
Regards
Michael

I figured that. My point is that the $300k could be better used to benefit the firemen and the community rather than fix up another useless truck.

AFAIK restoration funds of any vintage apparatus owned by a community, active fire department, or other fd organization does not pull from the same budget as equipment & supplies for firefighting.  Often a group will hold a fundraiser to gather funds, ask for volunteers, etc. and projects will not be completed if the money isn't available.  

There's a cool Detroit-cab Seagrave funeral-rig that was restored a few years back.  Beautiful and available for firefighter funerals.  Plus shows up at Woodward, Hines Cruise, other events.  It started as a simple restoration but evolved into a new chassis-suspension-drive train donated by (can't remember name) company.  This was customized to fit the truck; many people and companies donated restoration work and funds. And originally the discussion was 'it doesn't need to pump', guess what, it does pump. Since the restoration went so far they took it all the way. Seeing it is slightly connected to Detroit FD it was sorta shocking the project was completed.  

Ribeye steak?  There are way too many fat firefighters currently. Back in the day, they would perform maintenance on their vehicles, cut grass, clean the fire house, shovel snow, etc. Granted current apparatus are too complicated for them to work on but now it seems unless they have training, inspections or the such, firefighters sit around, play on their computers, etc until they get a call.