As of Jan. 16, 2025, this is the information we have about this car:
[Feb.01.2017] Car #270 was in attendance during the Cadillac & LaSalle Club Grand National Meet in Denver, CO, in June 2001. I recall the irate owner physically pushing me out of the way away, while it was being judged, because he had overheard me chatting with another collector, saying that the paint and trim numbers on the body tag did not match the original specs and that some of the vanities on show with the car werenot original. Nice car! But not a nice owner ... at that time! Anyway, no sooner was the judging over than he advertised the car for sale, in situ, for ...$70,000! That was more than twice the posted market value for a 1957-58 Brougham in excellent condition at that time! Note that this car was offered for sale, earlier, at Kruse auctions in January andApril 2001. The Kruse ad stated that the car was Fairfax blue with gray leather and cloth upholstery; its original color was black (code #110) and the upholstery beige (code #414). The original mouton carpeting was white (code #2); the restored car has blue carpets (Kruse said also that the body was by Pininfarina, obviously confusing this Brougham withthe 1959-60 model!). The car was (reportedly) bid up to $52,000 but was not sold.Apparently the car did find a buyer at the next, annual Barrett-Jackson auction inScottsdale, AZ, in January 2002 [lot #377]; however, there are conflicting auction results showing a selling price of either $75,000 or $81,000! Jerry Jansson, my Swedish friend and a Brougham owner himself, reported that the car was up for sale again in Monterey, CA, a few months later. I saw it on the Russo & Steele web site in August that year andthought it odd that the car should be for sale again, just a few months after someone had reportedly paid BIG money to acquire it. In my opinion, the earlier transactions probably all were 'fake' ... (vendors have been known to 'buy back' their own car at an auction, in cases where they deemed the highest bid to be unsatisfactory). I know that Kruse finds no fault with this 'game'. Late Extra (2010): the car has found a new home in Atlanta, GA. It was one of the cars at an exhibition there entitled. The Allure of the Automobile, staged at the Decorative Arts and Design High Museum of Art.
[Feb.01.2017] Car #270 was in attendance during the Cadillac & LaSalle Club Grand National Meet in Denver, CO, in June 2001. I recall the irate owner physically pushing me out of the way away, while it was being judged, because he had overheard me chatting with another collector, saying that the paint and trim numbers on the body tag did not match the original specs and that some of the vanities on show with the car werenot original. Nice car! But not a nice owner ... at that time! Anyway, no sooner was the judging over than he advertised the car for sale, in situ, for ...$70,000! That was more than twice the posted market value for a 1957-58 Brougham in excellent condition at that time! Note that this car was offered for sale, earlier, at Kruse auctions in January andApril 2001. The Kruse ad stated that the car was Fairfax blue with gray leather and cloth upholstery; its original color was black (code #110) and the upholstery beige (code #414). The original mouton carpeting was white (code #2); the restored car has blue carpets (Kruse said also that the body was by Pininfarina, obviously confusing this Brougham withthe 1959-60 model!). The car was (reportedly) bid up to $52,000 but was not sold.Apparently the car did find a buyer at the next, annual Barrett-Jackson auction inScottsdale, AZ, in January 2002 [lot #377]; however, there are conflicting auction results showing a selling price of either $75,000 or $81,000! Jerry Jansson, my Swedish friend and a Brougham owner himself, reported that the car was up for sale again in Monterey, CA, a few months later. I saw it on the Russo & Steele web site in August that year andthought it odd that the car should be for sale again, just a few months after someone had reportedly paid BIG money to acquire it. In my opinion, the earlier transactions probably all were 'fake' ... (vendors have been known to 'buy back' their own car at an auction, in cases where they deemed the highest bid to be unsatisfactory). I know that Kruse finds no fault with this 'game'. Late Extra (2010): the car has found a new home in Atlanta, GA. It was one of the cars at an exhibition there entitled. The Allure of the Automobile, staged at the Decorative Arts and Design High Museum of Art.