Story of Jo Han models.

[SfanGoch]

Did you read the first post? That happens to be the the link GMP440 provided  to open this thread. To be quite honest, the Wikipedia article on Jo-Han is much more informative.

[iBorg]

Actually the first link didn't work for me. I found the link I posted by Google.

[pack rat]

11 hours ago, Motor City said:

'71 louvered trunk lid, ELDORADO in block letters with 8.2 Litre emblem on the back end of each front fender, grille with a fine vertically-oriented rectangular pattern; '72 no louvered trunk, Eldorado in script on the front edge of the front fender with 8.2 Litre emblem on the back end of the front fender, grille with a slightly coarser vertically-oriented pattern with faint crowns on top of the headlights; both interiors are identical

Thanks for the info, Jim.

Here's the one that has me confused.  The '71-'72  rear quarter trim is missing, otherwise it's a '72-looking body.    

[Motor City]

Hi Mike,

I've never seen that variation without the quarter trim.  That is definitely the '72 grille, the Eldorado script on the front of the fender is in about the right place, and the wheelcovers also look similar to the '72.  I forgot to mention in the earlier post that the '71 has ELDORADO block letters on the trunk, while the '72 is script, but the louvers make it easy to tell a '71 from a '72.  A little trivia that I just found out recently is that the louvers on the real '71 were reduced in number sometime during the year.  My first car was a Clove '71 Eldorado (about the color of the car above, gold leather, gold vinyl padded top).  The '71 promos came with single and dual exhaust, but only the single exhaust is correct.  I have almost every color that the '71 came in, including Clove.  I have an original set of keys from my car displayed with it.1971eldo.bmp.

If anyone would like a separate thread on the FWD Eldorados, let me know.  I currently own a '68 and a '77 Biarritz.

 

1971 Eldorado convertible with 56 trunk louvers.docx

[oldcarfan]

As far as new tooling, wasn't the 1978 Cadillac the last of that breed, or was it just updated from a previous version?

[Rob Hall]

1 minute ago, oldcarfan said:

As far as new tooling, wasn't the 1978 Cadillac the last of that breed, or was it just updated from a previous version?

Yes, I believe the '77-79 Coupe de Ville was the last new Jo-han tooling. 

[lordairgtar]

On 7/14/2018 at 7:07 AM, pack rat said:

Thanks for the info, Jim.

Here's the one that has me confused.  The '71-'72  rear quarter trim is missing, otherwise it's a '72-looking body.    

That rear quarter is 73ish, but the front of the car is 72 it seems.

 

[Marc Weller]

Looks like the story has been removed from the site

[SfanGoch]

It's still there.

[thatz4u]

Here's my finished 1978 Coupe de Ville....

 

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/134532-johan-1978-cadillac-coupe-de-ville/