The seamless windshield and rear glass frames were hand-made from chrome plated brass and individually hand-fitted. period making it a rarer car than Cadillac's Eldorado Brougham with 904 models built featuresfront fender and bumper that are also reminiscent of that Cadillac model. 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. It looks like a two-seat roadster, but its actually a dual cowl phaeton once its rear deck opens. covers of the second generation Broughams (those assembled in Italy). Thanks to reader Larry D. for serving us this tasty Italian-American masterpiece. Biarritz; it turns out that the Biarritz' motor was swapped out some There appears to be a slight difference in the shape of the tail fins. The taillamps were incorporated into the stock `59 rear bumper. Eldorado Brougham Why would anyone pay for this? Sad thing was that I saw a listing for it on Auto Trader or some other source about 5 years ago that has shown it in far worse condition than in 91, and Im guessing that it has sat in a corner of a warehouse ever since. Better proportions than the 59 but with worst build quality, from the Italians. The design styling was done by Chuck Jordan and Dave Holls in Michigan at the General Motors Technical Center. Hos oss hittar du ven fler Cadillac frn fler bilhandlare! In his first message he asserted that all the Particularly given how rapidly styles were changing at that time, as Detroit and buyers were eager to leave the excesses of the 1950s in the rear view mirror. and the Series Sixty Special models measured 130 inches. Jacqueline was for some Described as a great runner, the sumptuous super-tanker looks largely (but not completely) original and shines inside and out. Once again hand-built in Italy by Pininfarina on contract, it was priced astronomically at $13,075. Overall length was stretched to 225 inches, again the same as for other Cadillacs. Is it still around? convertible The cars body was virtually seamless and crafted by hand hammering it into shape. This green survivor shown above is really an interesting find! I saw that car many years ago in a museum in San Diego. Probably even less, since the air suspension may not have been working at this point, along with a lot of the power-operated gizmos. Whether the Chapron Rolls Brougham was ever built, is a matter reminiscent of the 1959 Eldorado Brougham ! Very cool. Look at these drawings: those lines certainly are It had cast iron blocks and heads, hydraulic lifters, and five main bearings. [even impossible] that the latter could have been mounted on the 1959 Eldorado I rather prefer my gigantic cars to wear colors other than black, white, or silver, and todays feature car would probably show beautifully in a spread of well-taken photographs. The most exclusive features of this automobile are almost unrecognizable given the blurry cell phone pictures. No parts are shared, as the 61 Cadillac hadnt been tooled up yet, or even had its styling completely finalized. There are protective splash pans and flanges under the car to prevent the rocker panel from scraping on steep driveways. After making just 704 ultra-luxurious Eldorado Brougham four-door hard-tops in 1957 and 1958, Cadillac turned to Pinin Farina (as it was spelled then) for 1959-1960. . later Jacqueline model, below. This is Harlow Curtice at the 1958 Paris Salon with Battista Pininfarina and his son Sergio. Your email address will not be published. I believe the photos in these 2 rows were At the time, these were assumed - None of the body panels nor any of the glass could be interchanged with the stock Cadillac models. snapped at the Turin Auto Show, This illustration (left) is drawn from a Pininfarina Surprisingly, GM introduced an all-new Eldorado Brougham four-door hardtop. It was fitted with a Rochester triple deuce (3 2-bbl carburetors). A full description of this exceptional automobile may be found in $119,000 1958 Cadillac Brougham Bay City, MI. Unlike other . In fact, like their 1960 hat, I doubt they still had the same car by 61. His name was David Fogg and he told us this story. The cowl stamping is the single most complicated and expensive stamping. was a special three-passenger roadster commissioned by an Indian potentate, the Maharajah The seller went to the trouble to post on Hemings but failed to take good pictures! telephone number listed is 212-650.0675 if anyone is interested! 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. Automobile]. The stunning custom won a posthumous victory for its late owner, Steve Barton, at last weekend's Detroit Autorama at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. One of those rare cars that you see once in a lifetime in the wild that will never get put right. mid-nineties. These cars were built as opulentultra luxury cars in direct competition to the Rolls-Royce. 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. a metallic paint finish, and (again) with a white roof; it has a real or dummy air I have decided that my problem is that I never saw these before I knew what the 61-62 Cadillac looked like. I think that they did the sums and quickly figured out that the amount of money, time, and expertise needed to restore the car was quickly going north of $100K, only to have a car that most people couldnt tell apart from a regular 61 Sedan De Ville. The text was Can you imagine the depreciation hit the new car buyer took on one of these? 58L, It was one of their selling points, often referenced in the print advertisements. Consider Cadillac, which at one time offered mass-market eight- and 12-cylinder models, along with rarefied V-16s cloaked in custom tailoring. These were really spirited vehicles. above, the transformation was done by Frank Tetro, in California. Fake news!! Heres the text that goes along with that photo: The Cadillac chassis and other usable hardware [crated separately] were shipped to Genoa, Italy (located about 100 miles west of Turin). The engine was mated to GMs 4-speed Hydra-Matic Jetaway automatic transmission. Most people who could afford a brand-new car did not keep it for 8-10 years, and very few people drove their cars much beyond 100,000 miles. Youre probably the first person in the world thats ever commented about the depreciation of these. Mrke Cadillac. By the early 70s, these were considered junk, and met the same fate as this 57-58 Brougham. The car, styled in Detroit by Cadillac, sold in single digit numbers (99). B&W photos supplied by Pininfarina's customer relations Tell me, what panel would be made on a male wooden form? The car is one of two PF designed themselves that year, a vert and hardtop. on 1958 PF coupe and convertible The lights were removed from the tail fins, the sides are flatter with some concave details. the Paris Salon, shows a very light colored car; I would imagine that a gold-colored car, inconsistencies you may come across so that, together, we can improve the Database and In fact, its under 50%. "facts". The special Pininfarina models of 1958 through 1961 are described Wow, Dean where did you spot this one?! convertible, shown at the Paris salon in October 1958, is in my A 4 speed automatic transmission delivered the power to the road. well-known French carrossier (coachbuilder), Henri Chapron [above] They Someone built a hot rod outta one of these. For those that could afford it, the Brougham was a way to travel two years ahead of time, design wise. Or just coincidence? Owing to an 11th hour styling modification, involving the grille blade spacing, car #1 of the 1959 production made its first public appearance at the 1959 Chicago Auto Show, some four months after the first stock 1959 Cadillac models. There were only 99 made in 1959 and 101 in 1960. Chat is amongst 10 or so players. Indeed they are very much alike, except Brougham Coachwork: Pininfarina The 200 Cadillac Brougham sedans built in 1960 and 1961 were some of the last examples of the coach-built era. from one enthusiast, assistant attorney Michael W. Schultz, from Houston TX. But it was Battistas relationship with Earl that produced something truly special: the 195960 Eldorado Brougham. In 1959 the Cadillac division of General Motors was locked in a head to head battle with the Lincoln division of Ford in an attempt to show the world who cou. in January, 1996. In my opinion, therefore, the writer is mistaken as regards a possible second Jacqueline tri-power unit (Frank Tetro of Harbor Auto Restorations in Florida, who did the above]. On the other hand, in 1959, the chassis for both the Brougham The sketches are There is a registry on these, with 54 out of the 100 1960 models accounted for. March, 1958. Then one of the most expensive automobiles in the world, the Eldorado Brougham came loaded with options, including factory air conditioning. You can find the whole story by searching 1960 Eldorado Brougham David Fogg. That car was completed in 1954. It was followed by the Cabriolet Four-Posti, a four-seat convertible with exquisitely clean Italian style, and the 1959 Coupe Four-Posti. thus better serve the hobby. partner, Kruch. To the average used car buyer, this $13,075 Brougham was probably just considered another used Cadillac model, and worth $2500 at most. This would be my ultimate unicorn find. https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/eldorado-extravagance-1957-eldorado-brougham. between September 1959 and April 1968. It seems that Cadillac went through a lot of trouble for nothing. 1996-2020, Yann Saunders, DLM Group, and the Cadillac & LaSalle Club Museum and Research Center Inc. 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. convertible model above BOTH are derived from the B&W coupe shown at Geneva in The REAL owner was Alain-Dominique Perrin. 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. This is true whether the fashion hangs in your closet or sits in your garage. Also, I have it from Pininfarina that Jacqueline the Paris Salon, October 1958, Larger photos (above): The Autocar, week ending Oct. Jacqueline was acquired from (color photos: 1958, Pinin Farina, Mileage over 50,000 - Asking $5,000.00. In that case - in my opinion - the convertible At that time it was said (correctly) to be owned by Irving Willem [aka Actually, the fins on the `59 version of this `60 Brougham were those used on production 1960 model Cadillacsjust a year early is all. As indicated in the write-up, it is like a custom-built car. salon in March 1958, The Pininfarina Skylight in December 2001, "at the hands of" Mr. Couturier, who claimed I knew The 1959-1960 Eldorado Broughams were farmed out to Pininfarina of Italy which made them exotic as well as cost efficient to Cadillac. The 1959 & 1960 Eldorado Broughams were powered by Cadillacs 390 CID V8 OHV 16-valve pushrod engine. collection in Turin. When he found it the car was green on green. 69 chassis (Eldorado Brougham). conversion, has the details). A Google search [in June, 2005] reveals that there is still a Vicmar I wasnt clear on that, I was speaking relevant to the previous usual Eldorados which of course used common car fronts with unique Eldorado bodies. in 1976. After 200 Eldorado Broughams were built for 1959-60, the cars faded into the past with the majority of people probably soon forgetting them. (image: 1958 The Autocar, week ending Switzerland, in 1991, that I found it to be an engineless shell [a pushmobile] effectively who attended both these shows or who actually saw photos of the two Skylight The `59 fins were never used on these. What does a 2017 TL(X) go for, i.e. was painted white, not gold. Or subscribe without commenting. Excessive, or in-your-face badging was not deemed necessary. Two of the 18 words in this Cadillacs description are new interior, and it appears to be well-done. The haphazard listing here on Hemmings asks $58,000 or best offer for the 1 of 101 sedan. when it was shown in Paris; the name, he said, was added later, for the Turin Where is it today? I wonder if this is one of them. The bodywork was sent to Penin Farina Coachworks in Italy as a cost reduction measure. rsmodell 1959. The 59 and 60 Eldorado Brougham was a very curious undertaking. Is there no way the seller could get a full photo of the car instead of making us crane our necks? "headliner" consisting of four articulated metal panels which, when not in use, [ These are from undated Chapron factory sketch #5319, B&W Skylight coupe that was on display at the Geneva salon in March 1958; ], (at least) TWO Jacqueline prototypes; he claimed to own #1; he implied that the '57 Cadillac chassis. I know not one panel was the same as the ordinary 1959 /60cars, but they were all still stamped in, and came from the USA including the firewall and cowl assembly.. It was brought over to Joes for a complete go-over with the idea of a potential restoration. "funny fins". Become a member to add images to your comments. Giovan Battista Farina, youngest of the Farina children and affectionately Mouton or nylon carpet could also be ordered. 60s Cars. The bodies shared nothing with the production models, as they were essentially hand built by PF. Irving Willems] of Texarkana, CA. Sign up for the latest automotive news and videosin short, everything for people who love cars. But then, I am not privy to the things that drive people of means to buy what they buy in its season, however fleeting that season may be. In fact, Couturier is said to be a disreputable used ten years [1996-2006] in the private collection of Alain-Dominique Perrin, CEO (former 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. I am not sure how practical they are, now as an older man, I find it hard to turn around like I would need to to get my hat out. I am now convinced that this car and the when was lila moss diagnosed with type 1 diabetes,
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