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1933 Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5357, a large open touring car, possibly unique and possibly built for the 1933 NY Motor Show; this one has survibed [2008 information] Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5408, a convertible coupe for 2 passengers on the V12 chassis (only this one was built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5412, a town car for 5-7 passengers on the V12 chassis (only this one was built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5425-C, a town car landaulet for 7 passengers on the V12 chassis (only eight units were built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5430-FL, a limousine style for 5 passengers on the V12 chassis (only seven units were built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5455-C, a limousine-landaulet "Madame X" style for 5 passengers on the V12 chassis (only this car was built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5457, an open touring car style for 7 passengers on the V12 chassis (only this car was built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5457-A, an open touring car style for 7 passengers on the stretched V12 chassis [156 inch wheel base] (only this car was built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5475-FL, a limousine style for 7 passengers on the V12 chassis (only five of these cars were built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5475-H4, a limousine style for 7 passengers on the V12 chassis, with 4" additional interior headroom (this is the only one built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5481, town coupe for 5 passengers on the V12 chassis (only three were built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5482, so-called Sedanette for 5 passengers on the V12 chassis (only this one was built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5485, a convertible Victoria style for 5 passengers on the V12 chassis (three units were built) Fleetwood (USA)  Style #5491, town brougham style for 7 passengers on the V12 chassis (eight units were built) Fleetwood (?), (USA)  This car offered for sale at a Kruse auction venue in Bolo, IL, on October 2000.  It was lot #166 but I have no photo nor any indication if it was sold or not.  It was described thus in the Kruse catalog:   Ray lites, dual sidemounts with metal covers, chrome metal wheel discs, side curtains, top boot, heron radiator ornament, rear divider window, total frame off professional restoration, engine re-machined, 117 miles since restored, CCCA premier winner, one of 5 built and one of only two with rear roll-up window, one of Cadillac's finest examples of a majestic V12 phaeton in the world. A famous marque in the history of classic rolling sculpture. [Unknown, USA] Mildly customized Victoria (V8 or V12?) with the "Brush" lights made popular by the Ruxton automobile        Dansk Karrosserifabrik, (Denmark)  A 1933 V-8 chassis was supplied to this Danish coach-builder who put on it a touring car body for King Christian X of Denmark. Owned at one time by collector enthusiast Palle S. Jensen, it was acquired circa 1975 by the late Roy Warshawsky of  J.C. Whitney in Chicago.  This information was supplied kindly by auto enthusiast-appraiser, Stuart Brainerd of Brainerd's Garage. He also pointed to this Internet link which is an excerpt from a Christie's auction house catalog offering the car for sale in August, 2001. According to the catalog description, the car was advertised for sale by Mr. Jensen in the CLC Self Starter for February, 1974; I believe this is a mistake; that is the issue in which was published my own account of the 1937 V-16 roadster with body by Hartmann of Switzerland, and I could not find the classified ad to which Christies refers. [ Photo: © Simon Clay, courtesy Christie's auction house catalog ]   [Unknown, Europe?] I believe the license tags on this custom (?) 1933 V8 or V12 roadster are from the tiny Principality of Andorra in the Pyrenees, the mountain range between France and Spain. Does any Database user know this car?   [Unknown, USA] I am told this is a conversion from a regular Fleetwood sedan body style; I photographed the car in the collection of best-selling author Clive Cussler, in Denver, CO      [Photos: © 2001, Yann  Saunders]   1933 (V16) click here [Clark, USA]       One V-16 engine (left) from the 1932-33   production run was used to power this streamlined Clark "AutoTram" shown at Chicago's "Century of Progress" fair, circa 1933-34   Fleetwood (USA), style 5508 2-passenger Convertible coupe on 143" wheel base V16 chassis [4 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5509 2-passenger Coupe on 143" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5512 5-passenger Town car on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5520 7-passenger Town car with quarter windows on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5524 7-passenger Town car on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5525 7-passenger Town car on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [3 units]; one of these was acquired by screen star Joan Crawford and is still in existence. Fleetwood (USA), style 5530 5-passenger Limousine with opera seats on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5530FL 5-passenger Formal limousine with opera seats and leather roof covering on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5530H4 5-passenger Limousine with interior roof height raised 4", on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5530FL, 5-passenger Formal sedan, as above but with opera seats and leather roof covering, on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5530S 5-passenger Sedan on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [3 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5531 5-passenger "Madame X" Limousine on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [3 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5531S 5-passenger "Madame X" Sedan on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5533S 5-passenger Town sedan on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [6 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5540 5-passenger Limousine with opera seats and leather roof covering, on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5540S 5-passenger Sedan on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5555 "Madame X" Limousine with opera seats and leather roof covering, on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5555C, as above but with folding rear quarters [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5559 5-passenger dual-cowl Sport phaeton on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5561S 5-passenger Club sedan on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5565 7-passenger. "Madame X" Limousine on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [4 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5573 7-passenger Limousine, on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5574 7-passenger Formal Limousine with leather roof covering, on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5575 7-passenger Formal limousine, with jump seats and leather roof covering, on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [3 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5576 2-passenger Coupe with golf--bag doors each side, on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5579 5-passenger all-weather phaeton on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [8 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5579A 5-passenger all-weather phaeton, with trunk, on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5581 5-passenger Town coupe on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [4 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5583 2-passenger Coupe, with chrome radiator shell, on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA), style 5585 5-passenger Convertible Victoria on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5591 7-passenger formal Limousine brougham on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [4 units] Fleetwood (USA), style 5599 5-passenger Aerodynamic coupe on 149" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only]; this was the special Cadillac V16 Aero coupe built for the Chicago World's Fair "A Century of Progress", CS12, p.101; Sch40, p.134 (rear view). [Unknown, probably USA] A neat little pick-up wagon on the LaSalle chassis for 1933 [ Photo:  Internet, 2008 ]   [Unknown, USA] A modern recreation of a 1933 2-door coupe.     [Unknown, USA] Not a Cadillac but a Chrysler Le Baron dual-cowl phaeton powered by a 1930 Cadillac V16 engine [#700132] that left the factory in February, 1930.  It was installed in the Chrysler in 1934 by boat racing star, Lou Fageol in the appropriately re-engineered chassis that he bought, new, in 1933. At last news (8/2005), this unusual Cadillac-powered car was owned by Laurence (Byron) Dorcy [article in SS for 9/2005].      These three photos  courtesy of the late Gene Babow   1934 Chapron, Henri (France) 1934-35 two-door convertible coupe proposal [drawing #4437]; was it ever built (?). The artist's rendering resembles closely the Van den Plas design for the LaSalle chassis, mentioned above. De Villars (France) This Town car built on the 146" wheel base Cadillac V12 chassis resembles closely a proposal by Van den Plas of which I have a photo excerpted from a portfolio of proposed British body styles for the multi-cylinder chassis of 1934 [photographed in ZTV collection, 9/94]; the car appears to have been shown at the Paris salon or at one of the concours d'élégance. There is a report in the French bi-monthly La Vie Automobile #1068 for  June 25, 1935, on the Concours d'Elegance organized by L'Auto (pp.229-232); on p.232 we see that a Cadillac with body by De Villars earned a 2nd prize in the coach-built category; I wonder if it might be this car (a 1934 model, entered in 1935). In an old issue of LVA it is erroneously captioned as a Fernandez coupe on the Renault Nervastella chassis. McC has it identified correctly as having a body by France's De Villars, but he puts it on the V16 chassis, which it was not. My guess is that Van den Plas licensed its design to De Villars. In the same Van den Plas portfolio are two other designs (also listed here): first a 4-passenger convertible Victoria, a design which may have been licensed to France's Van Vooren [see below in the section for 1935], and another 4-passenger convertible Victoria for the 1934 LaSalle chassis of which I have seen no photographic record but which bears a very close resemblance to a design I have seen by France's Henri Chapron for the 1935 Cadillac [also listed below]. This custom job was used also to advertize the French "Nitrolac" automibile lacquer (ads below).      Original designer's sketch (left).  The finished car (right), not so streamlined yet superbly elegant; the photo was taken in Paris in 1934, amidst other coach-built models; it was captioned in error as a Fernandez coupe on the Renault Nervastella chassis     Left: French advertisement for "Nitrolac" auto lacquers (detail at right); this artist's rendering is identified as Carrosserie de Villars; the paint colors are given as Iris black and Leda whitre   Fisher (?) (USA) Pace car for the Indianapolis 500 track race   Fisher/Fleetwood (USA) custom or prototype La Salle sedan? Fleetwood special V8 convertible coupe on 146" wheel base; photo SSA88, p.33 Fleetwood special V8 aerodynamic coupe   Fleetwood (USA) special formal sedan on V12 chassis built on the regular convertible sedan chassis but with a fixed, padded top, large "piano-hinge" chrome or stainless-steel door hinges ŕ la Gordon Buehrig, photo McC p.185.  The Fleetwood style number of this unique car is not known but I would hazard a guess, from the production figures researched by Carl Steig of the CLC, as #5788 or #5789-A, although both of these unique cars are listed as "coupe" (i.e. 2-door) styles. Holden (GM Australia ?) This is the '34 LaSalle 5-pass sedan, as built for the Australian market.      At right, the same car as marketed in the USA   Kellner (France) Special 4-passenger convertible featuring this coach builder's patented folding top design. This car appeared in a Dutch ad from 1934-35, by the Cadillac-LaSalle importer in Amsterdam and Utrecht, Mr. K. Landeweer. This photo is from an ad supplied kindly by Frans Vrijaldenhoven of  The Netherlands   Kurtis, Frank (USA) Race car specialist; he built this custom LaSalle speedster in 1934 nicknamed the "Black Lizard" by screen and TV star Doodles Weaver of Burbank, CA. He bought it from Don Lee around 1940. In a letter that was published in SS for 1/64, Mr. Weaver reported that he had the car's spacious boat-tail area fitted out for "camping"; he said that his car had been stolen a number of times; SIA58, p.22 and SCC pp.178-9.             Tuscher (Germany) Custom 4-door convertible [ Photos:  Z. Taylor Vinson collection ]   [Unknown] Formal-type sedan on LaSalle chassis   Unknown] (Russia) Not much is known about this one other than it was built on the chassis of a 1934 Cadillac V8 model.  The body style could be late forties or early fifties.  The photo was supplied by a Russian enthusiast, Evgeniy, who wrote in March 2008:  I bought a car  several weeks ago (Cadillac, 1934) but I don't know exactly the model because this car was assembled from different models; the VIN is 3104399 and it was assembled in Berlin, Germany; can you tell me the exact model of this car because I want to restore it to its original condition.   [Unknown] (Switzerland?) Special fire-truck body on Cadillac chassis.  The vehicle is located in Switzerland and I assume that's where the conversion was done.  It served for many years as a ladder truck for the Basel Fire Department.  It is currently in a Swiss museum.   Van den Plas (Belgium) proposal for Town car on 136" or 146" wheel base Cadillac chassis, excerpted from a portfolio of proposed British body styles for the multi-cylinder chassis of 1934 [photographed in ZTV collection, 9/94]; this proposed body style apparently was built by France's De Villars and possibly shown at the Paris salon or at one of the concours d'élégance. See "De Villars", above. Van den Plas (Belgium) proposal for 4-passenger Convertible on 128" or 136" wheel base Cadillac or La Salle chassis (1st photo, below); information excerpted from the same UK portfolio photographed in ZTV collection, 9/94.  At least one body was built on the La Salle chassis (2nd photo, below). The Belgian firm built a body on these lines on the 1936 Cadillac V8 chassis [see 1936 section, below]. The design may have been licensed also to Van Vooren and built by that French firm [see "Van Vooren" in the section for 1935, below].      (Left) The Van den Plas proposal; (right) one unit appears to have been built, but with "suicide" doors   1934  (V16)  click here REVIEW [initial digits "57" may appear also as "58" in certain sources; they describe the SAME models] Fleetwood (USA) special style #5712-LB, a town car for 5 passengers with leather covered roof ; only 5 units were built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5720-C, a town car with leather covered roof and small rear quarter windows, for 7 passengers; only this car was built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5725-MB, a town car for 7 passengers with plain painted metal instead of leather-covered roof; only this car was built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5730-FL, a limousine style for 5 passengers, with leather-covered roof; only three units were built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5730-S a sedan style for 5 passengers; only five units were built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5733-S a town sedan style for 5 passengers; only six units were built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5775-FL a limousine style for 7 passengers, with leather-covered roof; only three units were built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5775-S a sedan style for 7 passengers; only four units were built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5780-S a convertible sedan style for 5 passengers; this is the only one built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5785 convertible Victoria style for 5 passengers; three were built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5788 special fixed-top coupe style for 5 passengers; only this one was built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5789-A special fixed-top Victoria coupe style for 4 passengers; only this one was built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5791 town brougham for 7 passengers; three were built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #5799 aerodynamic coupe (fastback) for 5 passengers; two were built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #6030 limousine style, with flat windshield, for 5 passengers; only this one was built. Fleetwood (USA) special style #6075-FL limousine style, with flat windshield and leather-covered roof, for 7 passengers; seven units were built. Fleetwood (USA) style 5825 7-passenger Town car with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [4 units]   [Double check!] Fleetwood (USA) style 5830 5-passenger Limousine with leather insert top, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5833 5-passenger Town limousine with leather insert top, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5833S 5-passenger Town sedan with leather insert top, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5835 2-passenger Convertible coupe with "V" windshield on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5875 7-passenger Limousine with leather insert top and jump seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [9 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5875S 7-passenger Sedan with leather insert top and jump seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [5 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5875FL 7-passenger Formal limousine with solid quarters, leather roof covering, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5876 2-passenger Coupe with opera seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [5 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5880 5-passenger Convertible sedan, with secondary windshield, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [5 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5880S 5-passenger Convertible sedan, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5885 5-passenger Convertible Victoria, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5899 5-passenger Aerodynamic coupe, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [3 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 6275 7-passenger Limousine with leather insert top, with flat windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [9 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 6275S 7-passenger Sedan with leather insert top, with flat windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [5 units] Roxas, Fran and McMinn, Strother (USA), "Fake" 1934 style 5802 roadster built USA late 80s, based on actual drawings featured in 1934 "Book of Fleetwood"; cream-colored, V16 coupe [this model was never built by Fleetwood, therefore, the terms "replica" or "re-body" would be inappropriate to describe this  this special "modern classic"].   Roxas, Fran and McMinn, Strother (USA), "Fake" 1934 style 5859 dual-cowl phaeton; built USA late 80s, based on actual drawings in 1934 "Book of Fleetwood" [MH, p.275] [this model was never built by Fleetwood, therefore, the terms "replica" or "re-body" (as above) would be inappropriate to describe this special "modern classic"].   [Unknown, USA] (???) Special Cadillac V16 Town car conversion either on style 5830 (the only 5-passenger limousine built in 1934) or (much more likely) on style 5875 7-passenger imperial (9 built) or 5875S 7-passenger sedan (5 built). This car is reported to have been formerly owned by Admiral Byrd of polar expedition fame. Currently (eighties) it is owned by Count J.O. Raben, Aalholm Museum, Nysted, Denmark]. Odd as it may seem, this car was used to illustrate a postage stamp of the former Nagaland, a province of Eastern India, commemorating the centenary, in 1974, of Britain's grand old gentleman, Winston Spencer Churchill.   GM (Canada) convertible sedan; the only Cadillac assembled this year by these affiliates; previously owned by the Eaton family of Toronto. This car was offered for sale in 1991 at the Seroka auction in Canada [article in OCW, 22.8.91] Volpi [???] This interesting V16 "racer" by Volpi is located (and apparently registered) in Holland.  Photos were supplied kindly by enthusiast Anthony Hazelaar whom  I have asked for complementary information. A similar exercise was conducted in Spain on a 452-452A chassis that once belonged to a sedate town car.  I pray that this engine was not taken from some super-rare, Fleetwood-bodied sixteen !                         [ Photos: © 2004 and courtesy Anthony Hazelaar ]   1935 De Villars (France) There is a resemblance between the two artist's drawings, below.  The one on the left is described (above) as having been built on the 146" wheel base Cadillac V12 chassis.  It resembles also a proposal by Van den Plas.  The one on the right is from a flyer advertising "Nitrolac" automotive lacquers from France. There is a report in the French bi-monthly La Vie Automobile #1068 for  June 25, 1935, on the Concours d'Elegance organized by L'Auto (pp.229-232); on p.232 we see that a Cadillac with body by De Villars earned a 2nd prize in the coach-built category; I wonder if it might be the car on the right. Any help in properly identifying these two custom jobs would be graetly apprecietd.      Both these custom town car styles are attributed to France's De Villars; the one on the left is from 1934, the one on the right from 1935; the car on the right was finished in "Iris" black and "Leda" white Nitrolac lacquers   Fleetwood (USA) style 5730-S sedan for 5 passengers on the V8 chassis; only three were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5733 town limousine style for 5 passengers on the V8 chassis; only two were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5735 convertible coupe style for 2 passengers on the V8 chassis; only ten were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5776 fixed-top coupe style for 2 passengers on the V8 chassis; only ten were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5791 town brougham style for 7 passengers on the V8 chassis; only three were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5712-LB town car style for 5-7 passengers on the V12 chassis; only two were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5725-LB town car style for 7 passengers on the V12 chassis; only eight were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5725-MB town car style for 7 passengers, with plain painted metal roof in lieu of leather covering, on the V12 chassis; only this one was built Fleetwood (USA) style 5730-FL limousine style for 5 passengers, with leather-covered roof, on the V12 chassis; three were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5733-S sedan style for 5 passengers, on the V12 chassis; five were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5775-B limousine style for 7 passengers [special body feature, identified only by suffix "B"], on the V12 chassis; four were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5775-E limousine style for 7 passengers [special body feature, identified only by suffix "E"], on the V12 chassis; only this one was built Fleetwood (USA) style 5775-FL limousine style for 7 passengers, with leather-covered roof, on the V12 chassis; two were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5775-S sedan style for 7 passengers, on the V12 chassis; only this one was built Fleetwood (USA) style 5776 fixed-top coupe for 2 passengers, on the V12 chassis; eight were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5785 convertible Victoria for 5 passengers, on the V12 chassis; seven were built Fleetwood (USA) style 5791 town brougham for 7 passengers, on the V12 chassis; only this one was built Fleetwood (USA) Aerodynamic "fast back" coupe on V12 chassis (146-inch wheel base); eight units were built.   Of the twenty fast back coupes built to special order, from 1933 to 1937, on the V8, V12 and V16 chassis, only six are reported to have survived.  Of the eight (seven???) units mounted on the V12 chassis, the car below is believed to be the sole survivor; it was owned for many years by Robert De Mars of Hollywood, CA   Fleetwood (USA) style 6030-FL limousine style for 5 passengers, with flat windshield and leather roof covering, on the V12 chassis; five were built Fleetwood (USA) style 6075-B limousine style for 7 passengers, with flat windshield, special rear treatment [indicated here by suffix "B"], on the V12 chassis; eight were built Fleetwood (USA) style 6075-D limousine style for 7 passengers, with flat windshield and unknown special feature [indicated here by suffix "D"], on the V12 chassis; only this one was built Fleetwood (USA) style 6075-FL limousine style for 7 passengers, with flat windshield and leather roof covering, on the V12 chassis; eight were built [Ramseier, Worblaufen, Switzerland] I have a photo [supplied by Paul Ramseier, nephew of Fritz] of an elegant, stock-looking V8 or V12 4-door convertible sedan. More details are sought. [Unknown, Europe] (???) V8 or V12 roadster with earlier horns and headlights and possibly "trumpet-tooter" hood ornament (Andorra license tags) [Unknown, USA] Mildly customized town sedan (V8 or V12 ???) with Brush wood lights. [Unknown, USA] La Salle "camper", SSA, 1978, p.26   Vanvooren (France): V8 Convertible coupe; LaC 1935. This car resembles very closely a design by Van den Plas which I photographed in a portfolio of proposals by the UK branch of the Belgian firm. It is possible that the design was licensed to Vanvooren who built it in France. Van den Plas built almost the same car on the 1936 V8 chassis the following year   1935  (V16)   click here Brunn razor-edged town car on 154" wheel base V16 chassis, Sch16, p.133 Brunn custom town car on 154" wheel base V16 chassis   Fleetwood (USA) style 5825 7-passenger Town car with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5830S 5-passenger Sedan with leather insert top, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5833 5-passenger Town limousine with leather insert top, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5833S 5-passenger Town sedan with leather insert top, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [4 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5875S 7-passenger Sedan with leather insert top and jump seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5875FL 7-passenger Formal limousine with solid quarters, leather roof covering, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5876 2-passenger Coupe with opera seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5880 5-passenger Convertible sedan, with secondary windshield, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [4 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5885 5-passenger Convertible Victoria, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5891B 7-passenger Town brougham with jump seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 6233S 5-passenger Club sedan with leather insert top, with flat windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 6275 7-passenger Limousine with leather insert top, with flat windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [7 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 6275B 7-passenger Limousine with metal roof, jump seats, with flat windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 6275H3 7-passenger Limousine with flat windshield, interior height increased by 3", on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 6275S 7-passenger Sedan with leather insert top, with flat windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units]   1936 Chapron, Henri (France) - this may be also a 1935 model - stylish convertible coupe proposal on Cadillac V8 or V12 chassis; the artists drawing below reads "#4437 Cadillac - Henri Chapron".  Was this one ever built?   Derham (USA) [This entry is from an Internet website devoted to Derham custom coachwork]  Derham started building LaSalle and Cadillac town car “conversions” as early as 1935 and Dick Kwak of Gloversville, (Albany) New York owns one. His is a 1936 Cadillac Model 60 Derham town car that was ordered through the New York City Cadillac Branch for Broadway producer Anthony Farrell. It was shipped to Derham with it's interior untrimmed  - as per it's build sheet - then modified to suit Mr. Farrell and his chauffeur. The Rosemont shops received lots of work from the New York City distributor after Fleetwood discontinued Cadillac's custom body program and the relationship remained strong through the early 1950s. [ no image ]   Fleetwood (USA) 5-door sedan proposals on LaSalle chassis      Note the stylish, enclosed headlights on the RH proto   Fleetwood (USA) Convertible coupe or roadster for Semon B. "Bunkie" Knudsen, son of the then President of GM, William "Big Bill" Knudsen. His son also was a GM executive, TQ5-6/87, pp.13-15. This super-streamlined car featured a flush disappearing top (first of its kind for GM), no running boards, special louvered trim on the sill plates, parallel spears on front and rear fenders, as well as chrome hood ports and headlight shells. It is shown below with two of GM's top stylists; Howard O’Leary and Steve McDaniel. O’Leary was part of Earl’s original 1927 Art & Colour team and McDaniel joined the team in the early ‘30s.      Howard O’Leary (behind the wheel) with Steve McDaniel (in the pasenger seat)           [All photos:  courtesy of the late Dave Holls]   Fleetwood (?) (USA) V8 convertible sedan [possibly with custom rear trunk], TQ9-10/87, pp.5-6+16 Fleetwood (USA) touring sedan style #8019-S on V12 chassis; seven were built Fleetwood (USA) convertible sedan style #8029-D on V12 chassis; only this one was built Fleetwood (USA) touring car for 7 passengers, export model, style #8504 on V12 chassis; two were built Fleetwood (USA) formal sedan for 5 passengers, style #8509-F on V12 chassis; nine were built Fleetwood (USA) touring sedan for 5 passengers, style #8519-S [for export to Canada] on V12 chassis; only this one was built Fleetwood (USA) touring sedan for 7 passengers, style #8523-S [for export to Canada] on V12 chassis; three were built Fleetwood (USA) touring sedan for 7 passengers, style #8533-S on V12 chassis; two were built Fleetwood (USA) special coupe for 5 passengers, style #8589-A on V12 chassis; only this one was built Fleetwood (USA) special town brougham for 7 passengers, style #8592 on V12 chassis; only this one was built   Van den Plas (Belgium): V8 convertible Victoria, with broad belt molding and chrome-plated piano door hinges, McC p.202. This is the same design seen in a 1934 portfolio of body proposals by the Belgian firm.  Carlo Sente from Luxembourg tells me the photo was taken in the center of Brussels, the Belgian capital.  I was hoping that an astute Database user would be able to name the monument.   Well, that person is CLC member, Rik Gruwez (who happens to be also founder and moderator of the Cadillac Mailing List -CML); Rik tells me the picture was taken on the Place du Cinquantenaire [50th Anniversary Square]. The monument and accompanying buildings were erected by King Leopold II, to celebrate Belgium's 50th anniversary of independence in 1880. BTW, one of the buildings houses the Mahy auto museum.        The photo on the left is quite rare, showing the car with the top in position and the windows up   Van den Plas (Belgium): [seen ZTV coll., 9/94] V12 convertible coupe. Van Rijzwijk (Holland) built this special convertible with a sliding cloth roof on a 1936 Cadillac chassis; info from collector-enthusiast, Frans Vrijaldenhoven.      The photo at the right shows the basic sliding top design; that car is a 1938 Chevrolet [ Photos: SAH - Automotive History Review - courtesy Frans Frijaldenhoven ]   [Unknown, USA] boat-tail speedster; poor photo SIA 2/82; sold at auction 1994.  The car was owned by Lowell and Claire Lamdy of Scottsdale, AZ, in 1996.   [Unknown, USA] Custom sedan "hot rod" [ Photo:  The Huff Report ]   1936 (V16)   click here Brunn (USA) V16 town car; Sch16, p.133, McC p.203 Fleetwood (USA) V16, Fleetwood "V" windshield style 5825 [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5825 7-passenger Town car with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5825C 7-passenger Town car with folding rear quarters, "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5830FL 5-passenger Formal Sedan with leather roof covering, jump seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [3 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5830S 5-passenger Sedan with leather insert top, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5833S 5-passenger Town sedan with leather insert top, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [3 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5835 2-passenger Convertible coupe with "V" windshield on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5875 7-passenger Limousine with leather insert top and jump seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [24 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5875FL 7-passenger Formal limousine with leather roof covering, jump seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5875S 7-passenger Sedan with leather insert top and jump seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [2 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5876 2-passenger Coupe with opera seats, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [1 only] Fleetwood (USA) style 5880 5-passenger Convertible sedan, with secondary windshield, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [6 units] Fleetwood (USA) style 5899 5-passenger aerodynamic coupe, with "V" windshield, on 154" wheel base V16 chassis [4 units]

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