All Rights Reserved. They werent crafted as the 1957-1958 model years were. But still; its a beautiful car, extremely rare and there is even a registry for `59-`60 Eldorado Brougham owners, since these unique cars are so scarce. published by EPA in France (unfortunately, the EPA book in my collection, published in from PF archives in Turin; these show a light-colored car, apparently with It is still a significant model in Cadillac history. models [coupe and convertible] taken together. Herv Willem] of Tarzana, CA. PF styling exercises in the right order. It was brought over to Joes for a complete go-over with the idea of a potential restoration. You know everything. Italy, This convertible is now believed to be the B&W coupe ( first shown at Unlike other . Standard features include the Autronic Eye that automatically dims high-beams when an oncoming car approaches. models from 1946 through 1955. Month/year matched up with each ad (excuse the poor production values); tough to find ads where dealer actually gave asking price! Some time after I had inquired about this car from PF, in 1976, an enthusiast In those days, 100,000 miles was viewed as the expected useful life of a car by most people. Potential rust spots are filled with sealer. courtesy Revue Automobile, 1958-59), Image from Pinin Farina ad in These special luxury sedans were hand-crafted by Pinin Farina (Pininfarina in 1960) of Italy. Florida bill says no, In the Moment: To believe youre the best, Our Two Cents: 7 cars that we got wrong at first, Underground VAULT at the Henry Ford Museum: Cars with amazing History | Barn Find Hunter Ep. https://www.google.com/amp/s/notoriousluxury.com/2017/02/22/the-elite-1960-cadillac-series-6900-eldorado-brougham/amp/. Rolls Royce of England built their Phantom V models reliable. Only 516 of them were made over that 8-year The text was But in 1960 it must have been quite elegant in comparison with the normal Caddys. Robert Levins. could be stored, singly or all together, behind the parcel shelf. The original El Dorado Brougham was a very attractive design, but it also previewed the design of the 57 and 58 models. The price started out at $89,000.00 when first advertised in Hemmings, which is getting annoying with its redesign of its document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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. While Fleetwood is the coachbuilding name most associated with Cadillac and General Motors, it is GM Designs long association with Pininfarina that has had the larger influence. "facts" drawn from the source(s) which, in my opinion, seem the most 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Pininfarina dared to tamp down the excesses of late-'50s General Motors, and the Cadillac Eldorado fared better for it. And that undoubtedly goes for any other inner body stampings that could be used in the Brougham. 1 495 000 kr . This color combination was confirmed to me by Pininfarina The cars body was virtually seamless and crafted by hand hammering it into shape. Did it find a buyer? The 1959 & 1960 Eldorado Broughams were fully equipped as the other Eldorado models. Regardless, it is the find of the lifetime (in my eyes), even it I do slightly prefer the 59 over the 60. This was the standard 1959 Series 62 hardtop sedan, Special thanks to Daniel Schmitt Classic Cars: http://www.schmitt.com, and Bob Adams Classic cars: http://www.arizonacollectorcars.com, "As the Standard of the World Turns", Cadillac, Cadillac Historical, 1959 & 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, Cadillac, Eldorado, Eldorado Brougham, NotoriousLuxury. Biarritz; it turns out that the Biarritz' motor was swapped out some He didnt like that combination so he took it to a coach company and had the color changed to this Bordeaux red. There, the bodies were hand-built and mounted in the new Via Lesna industrial complex covering about fifteen acres. later Jacqueline model, below. During the 1950s, a few show cars were produced, plus a limited production run of the 1959 and 1960 Eldorado Brougham. This is visually similar to the standard models. Its hard to understand who thought this was a good idea, to preview the future model year, for a huge price. mid-nineties. $5,000.00, in a -page ad, is what appears to be the light-colored coupe with the There is no female buck, generally, as its much easier to form the panel over a convex form than into a concave form. How about a link? downright rude and equally aggressive when I dared question some of his Incidentally the roof panel was fitted in America. The Brougham added air conditioning, cruise control, autronic eye, and E-Z eye tinted glass as standard features. The Farina workmanship includes seams that are hammer welded without the use of solder. The forward-opening hood was an exclusive design; it was only 45 wide compared to the hood of the stock Cadillac models that stretched to 61 inches. chassis and then, subsequently, put on a special tubular structure. One such 16-cylinder Cadillac, a 452A Pinin Farina Boattail Roadster, won Best in Class at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours dElegance. It is for you, the user, to point out any errors, omissions or Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I doubt they had regrets. 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 article found in Hemmings might interest you: Farina recalled in his memoirs that clients wanted to complicate the lines of automobiles that were already complicated, demanding frills, hardware. This one apparently survived; I saw the Farina factory [Stabilimenti Farina] in 1930, before branching out on his It Find Used 1923 to 1970 Cadillac Broughams for Sale on Oodle Classifieds. The Brougham had a heavily raked windshield, in fact the first 50 or so cars done in 59 had a slightly taller (1/2 inch i believe) windshield that was prone to crack when the car was jacked up. 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. for her. who comment are smart and knowledgable. Garage Corp.operating a parking garage at 8 E. 83rd Street, New York. is both caustic and sarcastic. built on a 1959 Eldorado Brougham chassis [possibly because of those unmistakable "specials" sported Brougham wheels, or at least the turbine blade wheel Another money looser for the company. At least they didnt take pics at night with a flash. French auto buff Jean Baptiste Dewever sent me two undated (unfortunately) sketches by Cadillac Fleetwood. There were only 99 made in 1959 and 101 in 1960. March, 1958. The irony is so money spent for exclusivity, and the result was that except for real enthusiasts most wouldnt recognize it as anything special. My interest in the Cadillac Jacqueline Just 704 first generation Broughams were built. was piqued by the correspondence I exchanged in November-December, 2001 with Mr. "funny fins". Brougham proposals of its version turned up for sale in Hemmings Motor News There may have been some inner body panels shared, but its quite obvious that all exterior panels are unique to the Brougham. 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. Back in 1985 I was at a Cadillac car show with a friend. The REAL owner was Alain-Dominique Perrin. Hemmings Motor News has been serving the classic car hobby since 1954. convertible model above BOTH are derived from the B&W coupe shown at Geneva in Pink Volkswagen Beetle. Chrome trim is made from brass castings. scoop on the hood; both have Borrani spoke wheels. The rear package shelf is closed These were really spirited vehicles. chassis. of Orccha. He said that he (Couturier) had bought Pinninfarina did several Cadillac based concepts around this time period also, in an effort to encourage Cadillac into giving them more business. some six years AFTER publication of the Hemmings ad), he did to the original coupe style and a broad hood scoop was added Since it was handmade, there was no lead time on tooling and such, so it could be made to look like a 61 one year early. Hummer. Fake news!! . numbered 5315 and 5319. The 1959-1960 Eldorado Broughams were farmed out to Pininfarina of Italy which made them exotic as well as cost efficient to Cadillac. Benot claimed that Jacqueline had been built on a 1959, Cadillac farmed out assembly of the hand-finished Brougham to Design House and Coach Builder Pininfarina in Torino, Italy during model years 1959 and 1960. Out of curiosity, I surveyed big-city papers when some (non-1960) Broughams were just a couple years old. Pininfarina asserted in 1976 that the Skylight coupe and one I saw in Geneva (that car was on loan from the Pininfarina museum and has It was a stunning statement in Italian understatement, one not lost on GM Design. For 1959, Cadillac turned to Pinin Farina to produce the Eldorado Brougham. It was followed by the Cabriolet Four-Posti, a four-seat convertible with exquisitely clean Italian style, and the 1959 Coupe Four-Posti. Not to say that anything was lostthe Eldorado Brougham of 1959-1960 is still long and low like Desiato Hotblack's spaceship, tailfins intact and covered in chromebut it's less Elvis, more Jetsons. 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. Have a look at this: https://usedfirst.com/cars/mercedes-benz/s-class/https://usedfirst.com/cars/mercedes-benz/s-class/. (on a 1957 Series 60 Specisl chassis and drive train) the black & It was fitted with a Rochester triple deuce (3 2-bbl carburetors). These photos show the In fact, Couturier is said to be a disreputable used Actually, the fins on the `59 version of this `60 Brougham were those used on production 1960 model Cadillacsjust a year early is all. Late Extra (6/2005): Well, I did hear was painted white, not gold. They look just like the standard 1960 Cadillacs. A full description of this exceptional automobile may be found in In comparison, Italys Carrozzeria Farina had opened only the year before. Big German luxury cars have replaced cars like the DeVille and their deprecation just as insane. People traded their cars more often. 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. There was a 1960 Brougham there and we spoke to the owner. A good read on the brougham of that era for those like me that were a bit uneducated. Since the 1957-58 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham chassis measures 126 inches, and the Ha! was replaced. 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. featured a brushed steel roof and no back seat. Regnr-Karosseri Sedan. According to a Pininfarina Interiors were exceptionally elegant. Nonetheless, its a beautiful car and an example of something many Cadillac people know nothing about. Should you know anything about panel beating, you would realize making a quarter panel by hand as large as these ripple free would be an enormous ask. Many are junk cars. Not surprisingly, that seemed to be the case with some early replies here. The sketches are To the Unknowing, it looks like another 1960 Cadillac. Or truly beautiful. The original El Dorado Brougham was a very attractive design, but it also previewed the design of the '57 and '58 models. Please stop wasting my time on this any further, unless you can come up with something much better than this, which actually only disproves your assertion. deal with. The chassis were shipped from Detroit to Italy, where they were mated to handcrafted Pininfarina bodies. The whole point of having PF build these bodies was because they could do it significantly cheaper than GM could. The whole body was handmade by PF in Italy. partner, Kruch. What do you all mean by hand made? for that year. Sheet metal was cut and formed on male wooden forms then welded together. The result was the 1961 Cadillac Jacqueline, built in honor of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. It raised costs to the point that really cut into the profit margins. This car had an interesting Plexiglas top with an ingenious It was only after website, the pictures are terrible, and the car is magnificent. 1959 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Additional Info: No we didn't make a mistake, this really is a 1959 model. ), Designer's frawing of rear ensemble Perfect condition. 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. This is through no shortage of desire on Pininfarina's part. B&W photos supplied by Pininfarina's customer relations It was the first Cadillac model to use a nameplate instead of previous Series model descriptions. It raised costs to the point that really cut into the profit margins. It was originally black with a white roof came first, then a coupe roof was added, the car was repainted and the interior upholstery phone number 697-4639 was listed. Series Late Extra (6/2005): The PF Skylight mounted on a tubular framework and fitted with Brougham look-alike wheels. "signed" H.V. T. Schwier, 342 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017. 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. Couturier, who claimed to have been closely associated with that car since the "automobile"? I have never known quite what to make of these. This was determined during the 1957-1958 Brougham. You pay to give them ads. Cadillac farmed out assembly of the hand-finished Brougham to Design House and Coach Builder Pininfarina in Torino, Italy during model years 1959 and 1960. 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. Pinin began working at the family firm Stabilimenti Farina in 1910 alongside his brothers Giovanni and Carlo. This move freed the Fleetwood assembly line. It was powered by a 345-horsepower 390-cubic-inch (6.4-liter) V-8 and Hydramatic transmission. Congratulations. Can be inspected at Vicmar Garage, 8 E. 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. B&W Skylight coupe that was on display at the Geneva salon in March 1958; 4-door model) was given in that article. well-known French carrossier (coachbuilder), Henri Chapron [above] They If you have some other info, link to it please. Nonetheless, the B&W photo I have of the car, taken at show the dark colored "Skylight" coupe that was on display at the Geneva I acquired two different sets of photos of the "headliner" consisting of four articulated metal panels which, when not in use, Required fields are marked *. As explained in the previous paragraph, it seems possible that this and the PF had a large cadre of panel beaters that could create small scale body panels for much cheaper than in the US, where panel beating was a dying art. These, however, didnt sell as well as the 1957-1958 Detroit built Broughams. They could do the mile @ 83 mph in 17.7 seconds. There are protective splash pans and flanges under the car to prevent the rocker panel from scraping on steep driveways. at the Paris Salon in 1961 was NOT white and referred me to a photo in a book on Cadillac Comparing a current 2020 list price to what a random three year old car goes for isnt the right way to do it. telephone number listed is 212-650.0675 if anyone is interested! 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). 69 chassis (Eldorado Brougham). was a special three-passenger roadster commissioned by an Indian potentate, the Maharajah above]. and new (red) upholstery) installed; this version was later converted back Switzerland, in 1991, that I found it to be an engineless shell [a pushmobile] effectively Keep me in the conversation via email. Drivmedel Bensin. The Brougham meant to assert Cadillac at the top of the car-world's pecking order while delivering a good, hard slap to Lincoln and its premium-priced Continental Mk II. [ B&W photo (above): The Autocar, week ending 21 March 1958, +1. And the style, detail etc. When it comes to fashion, theres a huge difference between designers ready-to-wear collections and their haute couture lines. 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.. the black coupe with white roof and no air scoop on the hood, Here is the second set of photos, obtained straight tri-power unit (Frank Tetro of Harbor Auto Restorations in Florida, who did the Beautiful car! I believe the photos in these 2 rows were This is the first GM car with the crisp Bill Mitchell look. [even impossible] that the latter could have been mounted on the 1959 Eldorado John, I didnt say it was exact, but you can see the influence in the 61 model. This unique car was built on the rare sixteen-cylinder chassis of the Cadillac Series and (according to the classified ad, below) was effectively mounted on a The fenders and header panel were linked and stayed put when the hood opened ala Imperial, Lincoln, 57 Ford, etc. Battleship Brougham or anything with the prefix S.S. comes to mind when surveying the flanks of this 1960 Cadillac Series 6900 Eldorado Brougham in Las Vegas, Nevada. By 1964, a 1960 DeVille (which originally cost $5498) was worth $2275; a Sixty Special (originally $6233) was now worth a mere $2320. shocked to find that this "automobile" could not possibly move under its The was later repainted Youre probably the first person in the world thats ever commented about the depreciation of these. Pininfarina Cadillac show cars were "immobile" pushmobiles and not The roof line used in 61 and later standard production was taller so that the quarter Windows could remain fixed. Sign up for the latest automotive news and videosin short, everything for people who love cars. (image: 1958 The Autocar, week ending show in Paris was painted metallic silver-gray and had bright red leather upholstery; XD). All parts should therefore be removed carefully and re-used if at all possible. They developed a lifelong friendship and working relationship, albeit one that didnt go beyond a few one-offs for Hollywood magnates and movie stars until 1954, when Pinin Farina produced the Cabriolet Speciale, a lightweight roadster. 58L, 101 were built in 1960 and this is # 16. beat thinking that this car could be the missing 1959 Eldorado Brougham [#100?] What does a 2017 TL(X) go for, i.e. The cowl stamping is the single most complicated and expensive stamping. If the ad is true, I wonder where the car is now? There is a registry on these, with 54 out of the 100 1960 models accounted for. own at the 1961 Paris Salon de lAutomobile. We are largest vintage car website with the. () The golden [???] time in its life and carried a regular '59 engine with one single, 4-barrel carb - no two-door It is very nicely done, although I agree, the restoration took a few liberties with interior and a few other items. inspiration from the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham project. mistakenly - to have been built on Eldorado Brougham chassis. One was a four-door [??? The regular 61 and 62 GM Corporate wind wings and glass were much nicer looking, but since I trained in a 62 Dynamic 88 I guess Im biased. Should dogs put their heads out car windows? Old School Cars. 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. 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. No parts are shared, as the 61 Cadillac hadnt been tooled up yet, or even had its styling completely finalized. They both had the luxury length of 225 they were 80 wide with long 130 wheelbases. In any case to figure depreciation you need to know the original sales or at least the original list price. 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.