Willems later bought out his "signed" H.V. Pininfarina Cadillac show cars were "immobile" pushmobiles and not It raised costs to the point that really cut into the profit margins. This move freed the Fleetwood assembly line. Kruch, in Brussels, who knew of the car when it was in the museum there; unfortunately, he a metallic paint finish, and (again) with a white roof; it has a real or dummy air Also, I have it from Pininfarina that Jacqueline in January, 1996. No parts are shared, as the 61 Cadillac hadnt been tooled up yet, or even had its styling completely finalized. 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. The photos in the lower row shows the car to be painted a light metallic gray and new (red) upholstery) installed; this version was later converted back If you can cite a credible source that supports your assertion, please provide it. Bid for the chance to own a 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. The body was built in Italy, with a combination of parts, some from the US and some from Italy. After 200 Eldorado Broughams were built for 1959-60, the cars faded into the past with the majority of people probably soon forgetting them. Holy crap! Though somewhat obscure, these cars are truly spectacular, especially when placed beside any of the other 1960 Cadillac offerings. numbered 5315 and 5319. Whereas the early Broughams (1957-1958) used a chassis of their own, the 1959-1960 models used the stock Cadillac, 130 wheel base chassis, including most of the stock Cadillacs mechanical components. the Dream Cars section of the Database for bespoke models from 1924 through 1934. Production was farmed out to Italy to be more cost efficient. . Check it out! Their styling predicted future model designs. known in the family as Pinin [the little one] worked with his older brother in They werent crafted as the 1957-1958 model years were. In my opinion, therefore, the writer is mistaken as regards a possible second Jacqueline 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. and (according to the classified ad, below) was effectively mounted on a Cadillac's 60-year alliance with Pininfarina began with the 1931 V16 Roadster built for the Maharaja of Orchha. own at the 1961 Paris Salon de lAutomobile. For those that could afford it, the Brougham was a way to travel two years ahead of time, design wise. And the style, detail etc. (on a 1957 Series 60 Specisl chassis and drive train) the black & I believe the photos in these 2 rows were 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. Thanks to reader Larry D. for serving us this tasty Italian-American masterpiece. Couturier, who claimed to have been closely associated with that car since the a two-door hardtop; both [?] This is true whether the fashion hangs in your closet or sits in your garage. Pinin Farina to build a racy 3-seater sports roadster, again on the 1953 Cadillac The Eldorado Broughams arepowered by a triple carb 389 CI V8. Twice the money for a crest on the hood. Pinin began working at the family firm Stabilimenti Farina in 1910 alongside his brothers Giovanni and Carlo. (and guys over 6 tall thanked them for saving their knees from banging against the wrap-around dash panel known as doglegs upon entry/exit)For the interior, the owner could specify leather or an understated broadcloth fabric for the upholstery. Image uploaded by crazydreamer. Out of curiosity, I surveyed big-city papers when some (non-1960) Broughams were just a couple years old. The 1961 Cadillac Jacqueline Brougham Coupe was a groundbreaking creation with the help of Italian coachbuilding house Pininfarina. I saw an in-progress project 20 odd years ago, if I recall correctly, procuring a windshield was in the thousands. Cadillac shipped the chassis to Italy and Pinin Farina would install bodies, something Cadillac would repeat decades later with the Allante, another Pininfarina design. convertible, shown at the Paris salon in October 1958, is in my The chassis were shipped from Detroit to Italy, where they were mated to handcrafted Pininfarina bodies. +1. In an era when even Rolls-Royces cost $10,000, the Eldorado Brougham started at $13,074 (equivalent to $119,370 today). Mileage over 50,000 - Asking $5,000.00. Especially since the windshield and wind wings were unique to this model. Of these four cars, only one of them - the Jacqueline - is known to have Incidentally the roof panel was fitted in America. Geneva in 1958), with the hard-top removed No description of the second Jacqueline (the alleged It is still a significant model in Cadillac history. Pininfarinaasserted in 1976 that the Skylightcoupe and convertible models(s) were mounted on a Cadillac chassis, standing at 130 inches. Since the 1957-58 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham chassis measures 126 inches, and the Mike Cadillac Fleetwood. 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. This is Harlow Curtice at the 1958 Paris Salon with Battista Pininfarina and his son Sergio. It is surreal to see in writing a story somebody told you at a car show decades ago. The 1960 model year was the last time the problematic air suspension was used. Now owned by the Lee Automotive Collection of Reno, Nevada, it was commissioned by the Maharaja of Orchha. Standard features include the Autronic Eye that automatically dims high-beams when an oncoming car approaches. It is improbable If you want a good look at a 1960 Cadillac Brougham, youll have to reach beyond this listing. Garage Corp.operating a parking garage at 8 E. 83rd Street, New York. There were only 99 made in 1959 and 101 in 1960. 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. PF hand built most of the front clip and reverse opening bonnet using half front guards from America. Or truly beautiful. is both caustic and sarcastic. All Rights Reserved. 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. Custom 1959 Eldorado Brougham Sketch #5315 I am looking at a photo of a front clip with hardly any paint on it , and it clearly shows where where the lead was on the front guards which proves my theory how the front clip was made is correct. The 1959 & 1960 Eldorado Brougham was the last hand-crafted Cadillac. of Orccha. designed and built four more exclusive, custom bodies. But maybe that was why the 59-60 sold at a rate only about 1/3 the original. as I was quick to point out in the Foreword to guards. one I saw in Geneva (that car was on loan from the Pininfarina museum and has closely inspecting the car when it was on display at the annual Geneva Motor Show, in My arguments all were founded on information I got directly from Pininfarina's Knowing what I know now, it looks like a doughy 61 Cadillac. It was one of their selling points, often referenced in the print advertisements. Switzerland's Automobile Revue annual, 1958-59, The PF Skylight convertible on show during This is a true find of a lifetime! Chrome trim is made from brass castings. Can be inspected at Vicmar Garage, 8 E. 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. Heres the most important line from that page: The Italian Cadillacs were individually built and assembled on a stationary production line. Our car is black with blue cloth interior. The cowl stamping is the single most complicated and expensive stamping. Hummer. (image: 1958 The Autocar, week ending He had his own account of the Jacqueline story and was covers of the second generation Broughams (those assembled in Italy). able to walk off with the engineless pushmobile. Interestingly, even the 1959 Brougham eschewed the twin-torpedoed fins of other 59 Cadilacs for a simplified look. 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. I got a couple of faxes concerning Jacqueline from a Mr. Benot Robert Levins. This article found in Hemmings might interest you: If it is as good as it looks buy it and drive it. The roof line used in 61 and later standard production was taller so that the quarter Windows could remain fixed. Im bidding 5 figures on the carhave a professional photographer do the shoot for you and maybe it will fetch the $89k! In 1976 I had inquired if it might be for sale. Check out the fins, can you see where the upper tail lamp would be? RULES: No profanity, politics, or personal attacks. Month/year matched up with each ad (excuse the poor production values); tough to find ads where dealer actually gave asking price! These were just about the most expensive cars you could buy then. You can also see the windshield on this was used on the 1961 models. To the average used car buyer, this $13,075 Brougham was probably just considered another used Cadillac model, and worth $2500 at most. 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 these cars were brand new and had arrived back in the states from Italy, they required re-finishing. My interest in the Cadillac Jacqueline (at least) TWO Jacqueline prototypes; he claimed to own #1; he implied that the 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. shocked to find that this "automobile" could not possibly move under its Wow, Dean where did you spot this one?! models [coupe and convertible] taken together. This is the first GM car with the crisp Bill Mitchell look. company name was changed to Pininfarina (in one word) in 1961 - drew great The open compartment under the dash and the different pattern on the seating surfaces are some of the artistic license taken when this car was restored. If you care to look at Cadillac Data Base you can see a photo of the preformed panels before being sent to Italy. period making it a rarer car than Cadillac's Eldorado Brougham with 904 models built There is no female buck, generally, as its much easier to form the panel over a convex form than into a concave form. Both 1959 & 1960 Broughams rode on Cadillacs rugged tubular X-frame. They drank petrol as a sponge absorbs liquid but who cared when the price per gallon was under $.50! Modell Eldorado. Interiors were exceptionally elegant. original, they were turned up at the extremity; in the ad photo, however, they appear to Brougham Coachwork: Pininfarina The 200 Cadillac Brougham sedans built in 1960 and 1961 were some of the last examples of the coach-built era. sometimes are contradictory. the Palazzo Stupenigi in Turin, beat thinking that this car could be the missing 1959 Eldorado Brougham [#100?] for the matching angular hard-top roof and the gaping front hood air scoop mounted on (one As explained in the previous paragraph, it seems possible that this and the John, I didnt say it was exact, but you can see the influence in the 61 model. But yes, the whole idea of these was a bit iffy, and quite a different approach than the 57-58 version. two-door They look just like the standard 1960 Cadillacs. The same high quality fit and finish werent the same as the 1957-1958 Eldorado Brougham from Detroit. ad of 1960 (possibly shot at the Paris Salon). This unique car was built on the rare sixteen-cylinder chassis of the Cadillac Series sold the car to his friends, Michel Kruch and Herve Willems. Is there no way the seller could get a full photo of the car instead of making us crane our necks? Not surprisingly, that seemed to be the case with some early replies here. thus better serve the hobby. 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. Same with the 59; it previewed 60 styling one year early too. [5] [6] Contents 1 Name 2 First generation (1953) 3 Second generation (1954-1956) With only 99 examples made, the $13,075 Eldorado Brougham for 1959, along with the 1960 model, is among the rarest of all Cadillacs. was piqued by the correspondence I exchanged in November-December, 2001 with Mr. At that time it was said (correctly) to be owned by Irving Willem [aka Offered there for sale, for Cadillac sent the bare chassis, which were manufactured in the USA, by plane across the Atlantic and then received the completed cars back in the same way. show the dark colored "Skylight" coupe that was on display at the Geneva I particulary like the hat boxes on the rear shelf. The Seller has other Cadillacs for sale. Is it still around? His name was David Fogg and he told us this story. These photos show the Can you imagine the depreciation hit the new car buyer took on one of these? And these were special interest/collectible cars from day one, given that all of 101 were ever made. This was the last custom hand-crafted body. show two proposals for a custom 4-door sedan on the Rolls Royce Phantom V Not only were these two year wonders produced in super low numbers, but they were highly prone to corrosion. 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. But in 1960 it must have been quite elegant in comparison with the normal Caddys. downright rude and equally aggressive when I dared question some of his The 1959-1960 Eldorado Broughams were farmed out to Pininfarina of Italy which made them exotic as well as cost efficient to Cadillac. What do you all mean by hand made? was replaced. Join millions of people using Oodle to find unique used cars for sale, certified pre-owned car listings, and new car classifieds. Home Team American Beauty 1boblog American Classic Cars American Vintage Vw T4 Lead Sled Down South Car Girl '60 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham (#86 of 101) by Pinin Farina) & Baby J Marie S Sands Autoliterature Eldorado Brougham Cimarron Morbid Fleetwood Seville Of course with a common 60 the hood opened from the front, leaving only the stationary grille behind. chassis and then, subsequently, put on a special tubular structure. been widely photographed), was NOT his car; he asserted that the Jacqueline shown The price started out at $89,000.00 when first advertised in Hemmings, which is getting annoying with its redesign of its 1959 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Additional Info: No we didn't make a mistake, this really is a 1959 model. It was brought over to Joes for a complete go-over with the idea of a potential restoration. Some time after I had inquired about this car from PF, in 1976, an enthusiast I quite like this model better than the 59 a friend has that everyone raves about, GM toned down the fins quite well for 1960 and the twin afterburner tail lights look good to me anyway YMMV. To the Unknowing, it looks like another 1960 Cadillac. the black coupe with white roof and no air scoop on the hood, Here is the second set of photos, obtained straight 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. This was PFs expertise, building small volume car bodies. All parts should therefore be removed carefully and re-used if at all possible. All gaps and shut lines were expedited with exacting standards. I dont that it was more attractive than the Detroit cadillacs. Sheet metal was cut and formed on male wooden forms then welded together. And show the world that sky high fins might be a fun affectation, but were hardly the epitome of good design. This would be my ultimate unicorn find. Keep me in the conversation via email. Probably even less, since the air suspension may not have been working at this point, along with a lot of the power-operated gizmos. from PF archives in Turin; these show a light-colored car, apparently with [even impossible] that the latter could have been mounted on the 1959 Eldorado 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. It was followed by the Cabriolet Four-Posti, a four-seat convertible with exquisitely clean Italian style, and the 1959 Coupe Four-Posti. They could do the mile @ 83 mph in 17.7 seconds. Required fields are marked *. One such 16-cylinder Cadillac, a 452A Pinin Farina Boattail Roadster, won Best in Class at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours dElegance. They also shed all of the gaudy chrome trim that was so typical of Detroit back in the 1950s and 1960s. Pink Volkswagen Beetle. VIN: 75 Year: 1960 Number of Cylinders: 8 Make: Cadillac Model: Eldorado Trim: Brougham PininFarina Options: Autronic Eye Drive Type: RWD Power Options: Power Steering, Power Brakes, power rear vent windows, Power antenna, Air Conditioning, Power Locks, Power Windows, Power Seats Mileage: 30,977 Sub Model: Brougham Exterior Color: Black Disability Equipped: No Notify me of follow-up comments by email. You pay to give them ads. Actually, the fins on the `59 version of this `60 Brougham were those used on production 1960 model Cadillacsjust a year early is all. When I crawled under the car at the Geneva Motor Show in 1991, I was indeed When it comes to fashion, theres a huge difference between designers ready-to-wear collections and their haute couture lines. It will remain in my collection until my estate sells it. Become a member to add images to your comments. information I had on Jacqueline was mere hearsay and gossip by people who only