As of Jan. 20, 2025, this is the information we have about this car:
[Feb.01.2017] Car #149 is the one I saw in a small auto museum located in the former weaving mills adjoining the luxurious Grove Park Inn hotel in Asheville, NC, in May2002. The roster of survivors indicates that a blue car [code #122 - Lake Placid Blue], with blue cloth and white leather interior [code #248], like this one, was first delivered to North Carolina (NC) in 1957; the car I saw no longer had the white mouton carpeting [code #2]. There was a NC tax sticker on the windshield indicating that the car was last registered in that state in 1973-74. Unfortunately, the elderly attendant on duty was unable to give me any information about the car, other than that 'only 50 ofthese Cadillacs were ever built!' In May 2002 I wrote to the family of the museum founder to try to get the engine or body number of the car, but got no reply. In November 2003, I stopped by the main Cadillac dealership in Asheville, NC, where I chatted brieflywith the son of the owner; he later called me and confirmed the car's serial number to be 5770-100443, which does correspond to car #149. He believed his Dad's dealership had sold this car to the original owner in 1957 and taken it back in trade at a later date.
[Feb.01.2017] Car #149 is the one I saw in a small auto museum located in the former weaving mills adjoining the luxurious Grove Park Inn hotel in Asheville, NC, in May2002. The roster of survivors indicates that a blue car [code #122 - Lake Placid Blue], with blue cloth and white leather interior [code #248], like this one, was first delivered to North Carolina (NC) in 1957; the car I saw no longer had the white mouton carpeting [code #2]. There was a NC tax sticker on the windshield indicating that the car was last registered in that state in 1973-74. Unfortunately, the elderly attendant on duty was unable to give me any information about the car, other than that 'only 50 ofthese Cadillacs were ever built!' In May 2002 I wrote to the family of the museum founder to try to get the engine or body number of the car, but got no reply. In November 2003, I stopped by the main Cadillac dealership in Asheville, NC, where I chatted brieflywith the son of the owner; he later called me and confirmed the car's serial number to be 5770-100443, which does correspond to car #149. He believed his Dad's dealership had sold this car to the original owner in 1957 and taken it back in trade at a later date.