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Join millions of people using Oodle to find unique used cars for sale, certified pre-owned car listings, and new car classifieds. Do you know how to link to something. It looks like a two-seat roadster, but its actually a dual cowl phaeton once its rear deck opens. Classic cars for sale in the most trusted collector car marketplace in the world. of Franmce's Cartier group. Better proportions than the 59 but with worst build quality, from the Italians. Regrettably, he is not a very cooperative nor is he a pleasant person to The 1959-1960 Eldorado Broughams were farmed out to Pininfarina of Italy which made them exotic as well as cost efficient to Cadillac. able to walk off with the engineless pushmobile. And the style, detail etc. Switzerland's Automobile Revue annual, 1958-59, The PF Skylight convertible on show during with bright red upholstery. reliable. featured a brushed steel roof and no back seat. After 24 months of disassembly, cleaning and returning sub-assemblies back together it's time to start putting the chassis back together. at the Paris Salon in 1961 was NOT white and referred me to a photo in a book on Cadillac Roll Like A Mafioso Kingpin In This 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham By Pininfarina The 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham was one of the most expensive cars offered at the time, and this one's. partner, Kruch. It was originally black with a white roof You pay to give them ads. This is a true find of a lifetime! 83rd Street, New York, NY 10008. When it comes to fashion, theres a huge difference between designers ready-to-wear collections and their haute couture lines. carefully avoided acknowledging or denying the rumor. The same high quality fit and finish werent the same as the 1957-1958 Eldorado Brougham from Detroit. 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Body by Pininfarina for sale at RM Sotheby's Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale That means copy the url (web address) and paste it here. The REAL owner was Alain-Dominique Perrin. Since the 1957-58 Cadillac Eldorado Broughamchassis measures 126 inches, and the Series Sixty-Specialchassis of 1958 measures 133 inches, obviously it was More reasons for auto museums. All Rights Reserved. Of these four cars, only one of them - the Jacqueline - is known to have Sketch #5319 features two traditional Rolls Royce front fenders, bumpers andimpact Subdued tail fins marked a new direction for Cadillac styling after 1959s FinZilla treatment. At the time, these were assumed - This is visually similar to the standard models. One of those rare cars that you see once in a lifetime in the wild that will never get put right. $119,000 1958 Cadillac Brougham Bay City, MI. Chat is amongst 10 or so players. period making it a rarer car than Cadillac's Eldorado Brougham with 904 models built In his recollections about the 1959 Brougham, Pierre Ollier, who was closely associated with its design [and who owned two 59 Broughams in 1978], mentioned how it had taken three weeks of negotiation with the Italian customs before the Brougham clay models could enter the country; at that time, a law prohibited the import of plaster objects, to protect Italys statue industry. sometimes are contradictory. At that time it was said (correctly) to be owned by Irving Willem [aka The Brougham was now made a Fleetwood sub-series, carrying a Fleetwood chassis with a 130-inch wheel-base, same as all other 1959 Cadillacs exceptlimousines. This one was more subtle. It was followed by the Cabriolet Four-Posti, a four-seat convertible with exquisitely clean Italian style, and the 1959 Coupe Four-Posti. nameplate may be clearly seen. then first lady, Jacqueline Bouvier-Kennedy. The price started out at $89,000.00 when first advertised in Hemmings, which is getting annoying with its redesign of its What would you stash in the under-dash hidey-hole? I saw that car many years ago in a museum in San Diego. they know the facts; he said I was "wandering about in a thick fog" and that I Become a member to add images to your comments. That said, in his second message, Benot suggested that I contact Michel Are you really so clueless about how car body panels are made? The tiny skeg fins premiered those on the standard 61 and 62 designs. Four years later, Cadillac introduced the Eldorado Brougham to compete with Lincoln Continental Mark II. Sheet metal was cut and formed on male wooden forms then welded together. March, 1958. Otherwise, its not credible. Or just coincidence? in 1970; it was located in New York 1970 Classifieds in Hemmings Motor News (p.1324). Among the rarest "production" Cadillacs of the 1950s is the 1959 Eldorado Brougham, a hand-built luxury sedan produced by the Italian coachbuilder Pinin Farina, distinguished by long, low lines and more sculpted tailfins, and one of the largest windshields ever used on an automobile. I would say that the 59 Brougham had more impact, as it was a bit more advanced in comparison to the production 59s than the 60 Brougham was to the 60s. These special luxury sedans were hand-crafted by Pinin Farina (Pininfarina in 1960) of Italy. of Some feel the car was built by Pinin Farina in a hope to get another contract from GM, as they had done a few Cadillac Eldorado Broughams (maybe to counter Chrysler's Ghia-bodied Imperials). The 57-58 was unmistakable with the stainless roof and the suicide doors. One was a four-door [??? As these versions of the 1959 & 1960 Eldorado Brougham aged, the lead they used as filler cracked. Sad that it took just nine years to cheapen the product to a point when the Chevy Caprice did the same thing For thousands less. In any case to figure depreciation you need to know the original sales or at least the original list price. It was brought over to Joes for a complete go-over with the idea of a potential restoration. there was no Jacqueline script on the leading edge of the car's front fenders What do you all mean by hand made? Series Sixty-Special chassis of 1958 measures 133 inches, obviously it was They tried again with the Allante in the late 80s and early 90s. Hemmings Motor News has been serving the classic car hobby since 1954. I have always noticed that all cars seem to have the turn of the decade design difficulties.It seams that car companies in general, tend to produce there best designs in the middle of a decade.Cadillac has had its duds accordingly.I am a huge Cadillac fan,but I will admit,I dont love every model.The 1960 models I struggle to like,but thats just me.Thank all of you for your comments! shocked to find that this "automobile" could not possibly move under its The photos in the lower row shows the car to be painted a light metallic gray "facts". ad of 1960 (possibly shot at the Paris Salon). 1959 CADILLAC ELDORADO BROUGHAM FOUR DOOR Sold for USD$6,500 2001 Kruse Auction - Scottsdale Arizona : Cadillac . Excessive, or in-your-face badging was not deemed necessary. the Farina factory [Stabilimenti Farina] in 1930, before branching out on his A full description of this exceptional automobile may be found in The depreciation of a car is actually always in direct proportion to the free market for cars, and the market does not care much for three year old luxury cars, as their utility value is no better than than a three year old Camry, or less. The body was built in Italy, with a combination of parts, some from the US and some from Italy. In addition to these features, six-way power seats, power windows & door locks, power trunk release, power steering & brakes, automatic transmission, and an air suspended self-leveling system. Kp Cadillac Eldorado 1959 fr 1 495 000 kr, hos Woc Sales AB i Tumba. You could have purchased a nice home for that amount back then. Do you mean this image? On the other hand, in 1959, the chassis for both the Brougham Not surprisingly, that seemed to be the case with some early replies here. It is one of 101 cars that General Motors shipped to Turin Italy that were then redesigned by Pininfarina and then shipped back to the US to be sold by Cadillac dealers. In 1987, the Fleetwood Brougham name was shortened to simply Brougham, with production continuing through 1992 with only minor updates.. Cadillac used the "Fleetwood" name as a prefix between 1934 and 1976 on several of its most expensive models, always designating an elevated level of luxury. Both Hi Will Fox and thanks for your comments. Check it out! Battista didnt take on a Detroit production car until the early 1950s, when Farina teamed with Nash to produce the Nash-Healey sports car. When I crawled under the car at the Geneva Motor Show in 1991, I was indeed I wish that Cadillac would have produced something like the Jacqueline, also a Pininfarina design. With only 99 examples made, the $13,075 Eldorado Brougham for 1959, along with the 1960 model, is among the rarest of all Cadillacs. The most exclusive features of this automobile are almost unrecognizable given the blurry cell phone pictures. Tell me, what panel would be made on a male wooden form? phone number 697-4639 was listed. from France ? Where do I sign? between September 1959 and April 1968. This is beautiful, and appears well kept. GM made a coil spring conversion kit as a factory part which many owners converted their cars to prevent those embarrassing moments when the car would become an unintended low-rider that rendered the Brougham inoperable. This is through no shortage of desire on Pininfarina's part. This $5,000.00, in a -page ad, is what appears to be the light-colored coupe with the Learn how your comment data is processed. People traded their cars more often. An understated Brougham script with a thin body side molding running from the front wheel well to the rear bumper were all the chrome it used for the sides. Quite a lot of coins even for the excessively-monied, who must have felt some slight irritation when a 61 looked no different to the lesser informed, me being one such if 60 years late. No parts are shared, as the 61 Cadillac hadnt been tooled up yet, or even had its styling completely finalized. Kruch, in Brussels, who knew of the car when it was in the museum there; unfortunately, he own. The whole point of having PF build these bodies was because they could do it significantly cheaper than GM could. well-known French carrossier (coachbuilder), Henri Chapron [above] They could be stored, singly or all together, behind the parcel shelf. Any new part must be matched against the removed part to make certain that it is identical in shape and size before installation is attempted (!). if "For Sale" in New York, Their production was farmed out to Pinin Farina of Italy for bodywork attached to rolling chassis pre-shipped to them by Detroit. Cadillac had launched the Eldorado in 1953 at a price of $7750or about $72,000 adjusted for inflation. Only 516 of them were made over that 8-year I am sure even body panels between different cars arent identical. Cadillac shipped the chassis to Italy and Pinin Farina would install bodies, something Cadillac would repeat decades later with the Allante, another Pininfarina design. Remember the plate under the bonnet, ASSEMBLED by Pininfarina. Late Extra (6/2005): Well, I did hear scoop on the hood; both have Borrani spoke wheels. Regnr-Karosseri Sedan. Geneva in 1958), with the hard-top removed If you have some other info, link to it please. In order to cut cost and speed up the Fleetwood assembly line, their production was expedited by Pinin Farina of Italy. Offered there for sale, for ); it is now believed that designed and built four more exclusive, custom bodies. Same with the 59; it previewed 60 styling one year early too. The answer at that Needs a few coats of black lacquer paint, but other than that, Im sold. There were quite a few panels shared, mostly inner ones. information I had on Jacqueline was mere hearsay and gossip by people who only own at the 1961 Paris Salon de lAutomobile. like the one claimed to be owned by Mr. Couturier, would appear light gray in a B&W covers of the second generation Broughams (those assembled in Italy). . 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham purchased new by Grace Kelly as a gift for her father. But it was Battistas relationship with Earl that produced something truly special: the 195960 Eldorado Brougham. Giovan Battista Farina, youngest of the Farina children and affectionately A Google search [in June, 2005] reveals that there is still a Vicmar the Dream Cars section of the Database for bespoke models from 1924 through 1934. Find images and videos about cute, pink and car on We Heart It - the app to get lost in what you love. Go to Vegas and put your hands on the car. above], although it too had only two doors, or with the a 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Perhaps some Italian aficionados might be able to help put these interesting known in the family as Pinin [the little one] worked with his older brother in If you want a good look at a 1960 Cadillac Brougham, youll have to reach beyond this listing. Also shared with standard models were most inner body panels, seat structures, instrument panel, pillars and door hinges, much inner hardware, front bumpers, most of the rear bumpers, much grille jewelry and outer trim, headlamp bezels, fender skirts, and Fleetwood wheel discs. Meaning they were hand fabricated. Is there no way the seller could get a full photo of the car instead of making us crane our necks? Right: '59 Eldorado Brougham rear bumper and tail-lights married to some The roof line used in 61 and later standard production was taller so that the quarter Windows could remain fixed. This was taken at Classic Caddy in Oakville circa 1991. convertible courtesy Revue Automobile, 1958-59), Image from Pinin Farina ad in Once again hand-built in Italy by Pininfarina on contract, it was priced astronomically at $13,075. This was odd given Battista had first met General Motors design chief Harley Earl in 1934 when Earl was touring European auto shows with the LaSalle, Cadillacs lower-priced companion brand. It was a stunning statement in Italian understatement, one not lost on GM Design. Standard features include the Autronic Eye that automatically dims high-beams when an oncoming car approaches. This was the last custom hand-crafted body. This car had been purchased for around $10K, if memory serves, by a very wealthy customer that was on a buying spree, and was complete and running with the Q engine and everything intact. Most curious is that neither Harley Earl nor Bill Mitchell are present. Switzerland, in 1991, that I found it to be an engineless shell [a pushmobile] effectively Of course with a common 60 the hood opened from the front, leaving only the stationary grille behind. And these were special interest/collectible cars from day one, given that all of 101 were ever made. [even impossible] that the latter could have been mounted on the 1959 Eldorado These included the floor pan, lower body interior panels, seat structures, instrument panel, dashboard, door pillars, hinges, inner door panels [these were modified but used stock hardware], lower front bumper, grille blades [but not the bullets], headlamp bezels, rear wheel skirts, wheel covers and modified lower rear bumper. white coupe (3/58, Geneva), the silver convertible (10/58 Paris) and the who comment are smart and knowledgable. 1962 Chevrolet Corvette3 days$33,750Bid Now, 1978 Chevrolet Corvette4 days$2,100Bid Now, 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III5 days$3,000Bid Now, 1961 Volkswagen Samba Deluxe 23-Window8 days$100Bid Now. Beautiful car! The car, styled in Detroit by Cadillac, sold in single digit numbers (99). think The Hemmings listing indicates this is #79 of 100, and my research agrees with your total of 101. Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Pininfarina -59. Mileage over 50,000 - Asking $5,000.00. Please stop spewing misinformation. If a Corvair and a 65 Rambler Ambassador had a baby. (SNK, yes I DO realize how stupid that sounds! "headliner" consisting of four articulated metal panels which, when not in use, Incidentally the roof panel was fitted in America. Building the 1957 and 58 Broughams on the same line as regular Cadillacs resulted in costly assembly-line slow-downs due to the time-consuming bespoke work lavished on each Brougham. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. It was powered by a 345-horsepower 390-cubic-inch (6.4-liter) V-8 and Hydramatic transmission. came first, then a coupe roof was added, the car was repainted and the interior upholstery downright rude and equally aggressive when I dared question some of his turbine wheels or wheel covers, more likely], then removed from that chassis and put on +1. If at first glance, this Cadillac doesn't strike you as unusual, that's because its styling predicted many of the lines that appeared on the '61, '62, and '63 Cadillacs, most notably the. Interestingly, even the 1959 Brougham eschewed the twin-torpedoed fins of other 59 Cadilacs for a simplified look. below. I would see these few auto in New York City where, at the time, we were living in midtown Manhattan, a right place for such a car. Well, Mr. Couturier, Copyright 2011 - 2023 Curbside Classics. By the early 70s, these were considered junk, and met the same fate as this 57-58 Brougham. It is a Cadillac Eldorado Brougham from 1959, a four-door sedan version of the typical land yacht of the time, which was once designed and produced by Pininfarina in Italy. This pictures does not prove your assertion that the Broughams unique outer body panels were made in the US. above PF Mike Roger, of course the cowl and firewall came from the US, as it undoubtedly was the exact same unit used in regular Cadillacs. If you look at the length of the windshield from bottom to top as well as the different shape of the quarter windows, you will see the differences between the standard production roof line that started in 61 and the 59/60 Eldorado Brougham roof line that initiated the design. PF confirmed to me in 1976 that the convertibleon In fact, Couturier is said to be a disreputable used Required fields are marked *. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Irving Willems] of Texarkana, CA. did not give me Mr. Kruch's address. His name was David Fogg and he told us this story. The 1959 and 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Broughams are the last of the hand crafted cars, despite being production models, that is models included in the product catalogs for these two years. The seller went to the trouble to post on Hemings but failed to take good pictures! Hummer. Brougham proposals of its Another money looser for the company. They appear to have had a minimal impact on what Cadillac wanted More of the same.. Never mind the 61 had the same styling. () The golden [???] The writer of the CA article asserted: To pique from one enthusiast, assistant attorney Michael W. Schultz, from Houston TX. and (according to the classified ad, below) was effectively mounted on a 1959 Cadillac Series 6900 Eldorado Brougham The Series 6900 Eldorado Broughams built from 1959 until 1960 were hand-built in Italy by Pininfarina and lacked the Cadillac quality as the Detroit-built Fleetwood hand-crafted 1957-1958 versions. That car was completed in 1954. If you care to look at Cadillac Data Base you can see a photo of the preformed panels before being sent to Italy. He said that he (Couturier) had bought Cadillac's 60-year alliance with Pininfarina began with the 1931 V16 Roadster built for the Maharaja of Orchha. Not only were these two year wonders produced in super low numbers, but they were highly prone to corrosion. salon in March 1958, The Pininfarina Skylight Regardless, it is the find of the lifetime (in my eyes), even it I do slightly prefer the 59 over the 60. Find Used 1923 to 1970 Cadillac Broughams for Sale on Oodle Classifieds. courtesy Ron Wilson ] Comparing a current 2020 list price to what a random three year old car goes for isnt the right way to do it. One of the stranger chapters at GM. A motorized Jacqueline at the Concorso This is true whether the fashion hangs in your closet or sits in your garage. T. Schwier, 342 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017. the black coupe with white roof and no air scoop on the hood, Here is the second set of photos, obtained straight The result was the 1961 Cadillac Jacqueline, built in honor of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Around the exterior, Brougham badging was very discreet and they werent labeled as Cadillacs other then by a Cadillac crest on the wheel cover. 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Pininfarina dared to tamp down the excesses of late-'50s General Motors, and the Cadillac Eldorado fared better for it. The 59 and 60 Eldorado Brougham was a very curious undertaking. Automobile]. It is very nicely done, although I agree, the restoration took a few liberties with interior and a few other items. 1959 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Additional Info: No we didn't make a mistake, this really is a 1959 model. You know everything. It simply shows those parts that were sent from detroit since they were the ones shared. ten years [1996-2006] in the private collection of Alain-Dominique Perrin, CEO (former Required fields are marked *. I am not surprised at your restoration figure for that car, considering how hard it would be to restore. Late Extra (6/2005): The PF Skylight 1999. This color combination was confirmed to me by Pininfarina collection in Turin. some six years AFTER publication of the Hemmings ad), he did Jacqueline The 1959 & 1960 Eldorado Broughams were powered by Cadillac's 390 CID V8 OHV 16-valve pushrod engine. "funny fins". Those inner body panels that could be shared with the regular Cadillac of course came from the US. Described as a great runner, the sumptuous super-tanker looks largely (but not completely) original and shines inside and out.

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