As of May 20, 2024, this is the information we have about this car:
[Jun.01.2009] Car #314 came out of the woodwork after 47 years and seems to be in very good shape. It is a 2-owner car, with just over 60K miles on the odometer. It was offered for sale at auction [on the Internet site, 'eBay', in November 2004]. Interestingly, the vendor (in Chicago) is selling separately a full set of the Brougham vanities[from this car ?] and is referring potential buyers to the CadillacDatabase © page that relates to them. With all the facts available there(including some previous auction results just for the 'Arpège' perfumeatomizer), I am guessing he won't be selling the set cheap! Late extra [2/2006]: check out the photo of the'vanities', below; the perfume bottle and atomizer alone are up for sale for...$7,000 !!! Sheesh! There was a time when I could have bought TWO EldoradoBroughams, with complete vanities, for less than that! Later[3/2006]: Bidding on the atomizer topped out at $5,151 ...but did NOT meet the vendor's reserve !!! Later still [Jan., 2009]:the car was offered for sale again on EBay with a starting bid of $123,975 and a'Buy-it-Now' tag $100 bucks short of $135,000 [the financing terms are'awesome': put $30K down and pay the car off over 12 years; this would add'only' some $50K to the price tag!] The ad says this vehicle has been meticulously gone through in 2006 after coming out of an 18-year long ownership... [the last vendor mentioned 47 years in storage]. Work performed includes a completely new airconditioning system, power seat motors and relays, power trunk pull down relay and motor,and a complete engine-out rebuild and detail, recored radiator, fuel lines, exhaust system, complete Pertronics ignition [modern, non-original system] and more. The car is also on coils and leaves, not the original air-ride. Aside from that, the presentation and photos on the EBay ad are superb! Have a look: here.As to the vanity items [that were actually sold separately], the vendor says: Admittedly,some of these items have no longer survived with this particular vehicle, but efforts havebeen taken to replace a few of them with modern equivalents [pity about thesenon-original (wrong shape) drinking goblets!]. By the way, the St. Louis Car Museum that placed the ad is where I bought my 'Black Pryncess,' a 1942 Cadillac Fleetwood 75, style 7519F 5-pass limousine - one of only 65 built. Even Later [Feb. 2009]: Not surprisingly, at that price there was not a single bidder on the car. IMHO, owing to its restoration with non-original parts, this is at most a $75-80K Brougham. Although such models have been known to fetch over $120K at auction, to achieve such an amount, the vehicleneeds to be close to perfect. And 'perfection' in a 50-year-old Eldorado Brougham is almost unachievable today ...except at VERY great expense! Latest [June, 2009]: A further sales attempt on Ebay again garnered no bids. It may be wiser for the seller to put this car in the hands of a professional auctioneer, like RM, Gooding, etc.
[Jun.01.2009] Car #314 came out of the woodwork after 47 years and seems to be in very good shape. It is a 2-owner car, with just over 60K miles on the odometer. It was offered for sale at auction [on the Internet site, 'eBay', in November 2004]. Interestingly, the vendor (in Chicago) is selling separately a full set of the Brougham vanities[from this car ?] and is referring potential buyers to the CadillacDatabase © page that relates to them. With all the facts available there(including some previous auction results just for the 'Arpège' perfumeatomizer), I am guessing he won't be selling the set cheap! Late extra [2/2006]: check out the photo of the'vanities', below; the perfume bottle and atomizer alone are up for sale for...$7,000 !!! Sheesh! There was a time when I could have bought TWO EldoradoBroughams, with complete vanities, for less than that! Later[3/2006]: Bidding on the atomizer topped out at $5,151 ...but did NOT meet the vendor's reserve !!! Later still [Jan., 2009]:the car was offered for sale again on EBay with a starting bid of $123,975 and a'Buy-it-Now' tag $100 bucks short of $135,000 [the financing terms are'awesome': put $30K down and pay the car off over 12 years; this would add'only' some $50K to the price tag!] The ad says this vehicle has been meticulously gone through in 2006 after coming out of an 18-year long ownership... [the last vendor mentioned 47 years in storage]. Work performed includes a completely new airconditioning system, power seat motors and relays, power trunk pull down relay and motor,and a complete engine-out rebuild and detail, recored radiator, fuel lines, exhaust system, complete Pertronics ignition [modern, non-original system] and more. The car is also on coils and leaves, not the original air-ride. Aside from that, the presentation and photos on the EBay ad are superb! Have a look: here.As to the vanity items [that were actually sold separately], the vendor says: Admittedly,some of these items have no longer survived with this particular vehicle, but efforts havebeen taken to replace a few of them with modern equivalents [pity about thesenon-original (wrong shape) drinking goblets!]. By the way, the St. Louis Car Museum that placed the ad is where I bought my 'Black Pryncess,' a 1942 Cadillac Fleetwood 75, style 7519F 5-pass limousine - one of only 65 built. Even Later [Feb. 2009]: Not surprisingly, at that price there was not a single bidder on the car. IMHO, owing to its restoration with non-original parts, this is at most a $75-80K Brougham. Although such models have been known to fetch over $120K at auction, to achieve such an amount, the vehicleneeds to be close to perfect. And 'perfection' in a 50-year-old Eldorado Brougham is almost unachievable today ...except at VERY great expense! Latest [June, 2009]: A further sales attempt on Ebay again garnered no bids. It may be wiser for the seller to put this car in the hands of a professional auctioneer, like RM, Gooding, etc.