was a special three-passenger roadster commissioned by an Indian potentate, the Maharajah "signed" H.V. The Cadillac emblems used on these cars is pictured on the dash where it says Brougham, there was also a Cadillac crest in the steering wheel center. Described as a great runner, the sumptuous super-tanker looks largely (but not completely) original and shines inside and out. At least they didnt take pics at night with a flash. Originally, the car would not have had any storage compartment under the dash. When he found it the car was green on green. convertible models(s) were mounted on a Cadillac chassis, standing at 130 inches. This color combination was confirmed to me by Pininfarina 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. Modell Eldorado. 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 wonder if this is one of them. Jacqueline reminiscent of the 1959 Eldorado Brougham ! Each Brougham exhibited a refinement that only hand-crafting could produce. guards. Should dogs put their heads out car windows? It is a very sharp example. if "For Sale" in New York, Im bidding 5 figures on the carhave a professional photographer do the shoot for you and maybe it will fetch the $89k! If you are prepared to learn something, and you enlarge the insert of the photo of the parts in CDB 10A, you will see the two preformed quarter panels on the way to be fitted in Italy. Knowing what I know now, it looks like a doughy 61 Cadillac. nothing about the car's history, I decided to create a new page It raised costs to the point that really cut into the profit margins. 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. Look at that roofline the quarter panels the Pininfarina asserted in 1976 that the Skylight coupe and 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. Not many even knew it existed because of its rarity. Other distinctive details include cut-down front doors; a low, sloping windshield; louvered panels covering the body frame; cycle fenders; and the elimination of running boards. when it was shown in Paris; the name, he said, was added later, for the Turin It is for you, the user, to point out any errors, omissions or I acquired two different sets of photos of the These cars were built as opulentultra luxury cars in direct competition to the Rolls-Royce. built on a 1959 Eldorado Brougham chassis [possibly because of those unmistakable models [coupe and convertible] taken together. Switzerland, in 1991, that I found it to be an engineless shell [a pushmobile] effectively Production in Italy was not only cost efficient but it prevented the assembly lines in Detroit from the slow-down due to the nature of the hand finishing that the Eldorado Brougham required. like the one claimed to be owned by Mr. Couturier, would appear light gray in a B&W have been shaved to almost horizontal or the photo detail is unclear. Hummer. Robert Levins. Hos oss hittar du ven fler Cadillac frn fler bilhandlare! a two-door hardtop; both [?] 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 writer of the CA article asserted: To pique How about a link? It was fitted with a Rochester triple deuce (3 2-bbl carburetors). 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. The same high quality fit and finish werent the same as the 1957-1958 Eldorado Brougham from Detroit. March, 1958. [even impossible] that the latter could have been mounted on the 1959 Eldorado I doubt they had regrets. Both 1959 & 1960 Broughams rode on Cadillacs rugged tubular X-frame. Stunningly beautiful. The engine was mated to GMs 4-speed Hydra-Matic Jetaway automatic transmission. subsequently "spoiled" by over-restoration and customization in the USA. Its too bad to hear it has just sat and deteriorated. But in 1960 it must have been quite elegant in comparison with the normal Caddys. Pinin Farina to build a racy 3-seater sports roadster, again on the 1953 Cadillac Cadillac built the Brougham as a boutique halo car, and its unlikely they made a dime on each after paying Pininfarinas bill and two-way shipping. The 59 and 60 Eldorado Brougham was a very curious undertaking. A 4 speed automatic transmission delivered the power to the road. own. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. You think PF couldnt make a quarter panel? Up front, quad headlights, which were a Pinin Farina staple, bookended a simple egg crate grille. This gorgeous black unit on NotoriousLuxury gives some idea of the Pininfarina Boughams presence. Irving Willems] of Texarkana, CA. known in the family as Pinin [the little one] worked with his older brother in inconsistencies you may come across so that, together, we can improve the Database and These, however, didnt sell as well as the 1957-1958 Detroit built Broughams. You could have purchased a nice home for that amount back then. It will remain in my collection until my estate sells it. It was brought over to Joes for a complete go-over with the idea of a potential restoration. These were the days when Cadillac was King! In those days, 100,000 miles was viewed as the expected useful life of a car by most people. a tubular structure. Mileage over 50,000 - Asking $5,000.00. department, in the mid-seventies [below], show this to be a light-colored car. Note how comparatively plain the grille and headlight features are. The surprise was that it arrived under its own power. numbered 5315 and 5319. PF hand built most of the front clip and reverse opening bonnet using half front guards from America. as asserted by the manufacturer in reply to a question I had asked at that time [photos Go to Vegas and put your hands on the car. sketches featurerear quarters, bumper and tail-light pods that are very the Paris Salon, shows a very light colored car; I would imagine that a gold-colored car, Sign up for our free daily email and youll never miss another find: Original Year End Special: 1980 Chevrolet C-10 Bonanza, BF Auction: 1961 Volkswagen Samba Deluxe 23-Window. for that year. Garage Corp.operating a parking garage at 8 E. 83rd Street, New York. 1996-2020, Yann Saunders, DLM Group, and the Cadillac & LaSalle Club Museum and Research Center Inc. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. silver & white hardtop coupe with hood air scoop (5/59, Turin); the latter the Farina factory [Stabilimenti Farina] in 1930, before branching out on his They look just like the standard 1960 Cadillacs. That he did, giving form to the finest Ferraris, Alfa Romeos, and Maseratis ever built. T. Schwier, 342 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017. carefully avoided acknowledging or denying the rumor. '57 Cadillac chassis. one I saw in Geneva (that car was on loan from the Pininfarina museum and has That would be the exterior sheet metal, the complete greenhouse and glass and most of the trim. Hi Will Fox and thanks for your comments. If it is as good as it looks buy it and drive it. Better proportions than the 59 but with worst build quality, from the Italians. Only a tiny handful of these were ever made (by hand), and the buyers that bought them were so rich that the last thing on their minds was depreciation. designed and built four more exclusive, custom bodies. Four years later, Cadillac introduced the Eldorado Brougham to compete with Lincoln Continental Mark II. Pininfarinaasserted in 1976 that the Skylightcoupe and convertible models(s) were mounted on a Cadillac chassis, standing at 130 inches. if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[336,280],'barnfinds_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_15',148,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-barnfinds_com-large-leaderboard-2-0'); Interesting article as this is the first I heard of Cadillac using Pinninfarina back in 59 and 60. neither one of these. The whole point of having PF build these bodies was because they could do it significantly cheaper than GM could. This 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Pininfarina is a unique, beautiful very original car. Saw that open below the dash Todd. mistakenly - to have been built on Eldorado Brougham chassis. 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. (at least) TWO Jacqueline prototypes; he claimed to own #1; he implied that the Pininfarina Cadillac show cars were "immobile" pushmobiles and not "specials" sported Brougham wheels, or at least the turbine blade wheel was painted white, not gold. The original El Dorado Brougham was a very attractive design, but it also previewed the design of the '57 and '58 models. The result was the 1961 Cadillac Jacqueline, built in honor of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Regnr-Karosseri Sedan. glass, rising high into the roof line. original, they were turned up at the extremity; in the ad photo, however, they appear to 83rd Street, New York, NY 10008. People traded their cars more often. 4-door model) was given in that article. Geneva in 1958), with the hard-top removed The pillarless hardtop was designed at Cadillac by Chuck Jordan and David Holls, and reworked in Italy. Youre making assumptions that arent relevant. (on a 1957 Series 60 Specisl chassis and drive train) the black & A motorized Jacqueline at the Concorso Four years later, Cadillac introduced the Eldorado Brougham to compete with Lincoln Continental Mark II. The windshield, on the other hand, is an almost exact copy of the '59 Brougham 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. the Palazzo Stupenigi in Turin, If you can cite a credible source that supports your assertion, please provide it. They did come with two lockable compartments on the rear package shelf, which are unique but difficult to use. Chrome trim is made from brass castings. The PF customer relations department asserted also, in 1976, that Im specifically talking about the exterior panels that are obviously unique to the Brougham. With the 1959 model year yielding 99 vehicles and the 1960 model year yielding 101 vehicles, they are quite rare and highly collectible. turned out to be a lot of b/s. Or subscribe without commenting. It Have a look at Acura TL ads. By the early 70s, these were considered junk, and met the same fate as this 57-58 Brougham. 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Body by Pininfarina for sale at RM Sotheby's Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale Unless you can show me a credible source, I will continue to stand by my assertion that the body parts that were unique to the Brougham, which includes its roof, were created in Italy by PF, and assembled along with those certain inner body panels that could be shared with the regular Cadillac, and were sent along with the chassis to Italy. partner, Kruch. $119,000 1958 Cadillac Brougham Bay City, MI. XD). Some time after I had inquired about this car from PF, in 1976, an enthusiast One of which ( Cadillac Jacqueline) shared some styling influence with some Peugeots of the era. Regular Cadillacs were noted for their low depreciation rates in those days. One of those rare cars that you see once in a lifetime in the wild that will never get put right. Is there no way the seller could get a full photo of the car instead of making us crane our necks? spokesperson in 1976, the Starlight coupe was first shown at the Paris Salon in (image: 1958 The Autocar, week ending Cadillac couldn't stay away from manufacturing of bodies in Italy, the Allante also suffered from this idea. Nov. 14, 1958, courtesy Ron Wilson, Australia), This PF Youre probably the first person in the world thats ever commented about the depreciation of these. Giovan Battista Farina, youngest of the Farina children and affectionately Jacqueline was for some custom jobs by Pinin Farina, What would you stash in the under-dash hidey-hole? I have never known quite what to make of these. the black coupe with white roof and no air scoop on the hood, Here is the second set of photos, obtained straight In an effort to reduce production costs, the second generation Eldorado Broughams (1959-1960) were built in Turin, Italy, at the Pinin Farina workshops.
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