« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!  (Read 1210 times)

Offline John Morris #23947

  • Posts: 819
Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« on: February 02, 2010, 02:34:10 PM »
Logged
71 Olds 98 LS, 66 Fairlane 500 XL Convertible, 55 Packard Clipper Super, 58 Edsel Ranger, 72 Cheyenne Super, many 49-60 parts cars, abandoned "House Of Doom" full of 49-60 parts. Huge piles of engine parts, brackets, tin, Hydramatic & Jetaway parts,  thousands of stainless moldings, dozens of perfect sedan doors.

Offline okccadman

  • Posts: 474
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2010, 02:45:09 PM »
I believe a fellow CLC member is the proud new owner.
Logged
Jim Jordan CLC# 5374
Oklahoma City, OK

1954 Series 62 Sedan
1956 Series 62 Coupe (2)
1956 Fleetwood 60 Special
1956 Fleetwood 75 Derham Limo (Rockefeller)
1956 Superior Beau Monde Hearse
1970 Coupe de Ville
1974 Eldorado Conv.
1976 Fleetwood 75 Sedan
1990 Brougham d'Elegance
1991 Sedan de Ville
1993 Allante
1996 Fleetwood Brougham
1958 Olds Ninety Eight
1972 Olds Cutlass Conv.

Offline Otto Skorzeny

  • Posts: 3854
  • 1956 Coupe de Ville aka Bismarck
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2010, 02:46:13 PM »
That's the best looking color I have ever seen on a Brougham.
Logged
fward

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for YOURSELF

HUGE VENDOR LIST CLICK HERE

Offline Gergely Szentmartony 25603

  • Posts: 122
  • 1988 Cadillac Brougham d'Elegance
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2010, 03:00:32 PM »
I do not understand this at all.
I have never seen any '57 or '58 Eldorado Broughams having been sold cheaper than $100,000 on eBay.
Additionally, I respect but do not completely understand if somebody buys a car only because that particular vehicle was used by e.g. Elvis Presley. OK, it can be sold more expensive a couple of years or decades later.
However, this is a very nice car. It is a rare car (only 304 were built). It is a kind of non-plus-ultra car of Cadillac. Additionally, it was owned by somebody who is still a real legend.
I do not understand this. ???
Logged
"Brougham - For all the reasons you have ever wanted a Cadillac"

www.cadillaclasalle.hu

Offline Mike Josephic CLC #3877

  • Posts: 1038
  • CLC #3877
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2010, 04:13:51 PM »
A really great looking Brougham in a lovely, rare color.  I loved the story about Frank being
stopped by the traffic cop.  I can almost hear the expletives flying!  He was known
to have a short fuse.

I'm also a bit surprised that a nice original car with that kind of provenance did not
gather more $$$ especially at an auction!

Somebody got a bargain!

Mike
Logged
1955 Cadillac Eldorado
1973 Cadillac Eldorado
1995 Cadillac Seville
2004 Escalade

Offline Chris Conklin #25055

  • Posts: 671
  • CLC Number: 25055
  • Name: Chris Conklin
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2010, 04:41:58 PM »
Quote from: okccadman on February 02, 2010, 02:45:09 PM
I believe a fellow CLC member is the proud new owner.
If so, please feel free to brag about your new purchase here. Though well above my pocket book and in the realm of rarefied air - a good bargain. You must be a very happy person!
Logged

Online 76eldo

  • Posts: 1232
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2010, 05:33:58 PM »
It's the state of the economy.  Now is the time to be buying.

Brian
Logged
Brian Rachlin,
Huntingdon Valley, Pa
CLC # 22443
Current collection:
1960 62 Series Convertible
1976 Eldorado Convertible
1980 Hess & Eisenhardt Eldorado Convertible
1981 Hess & Eisenhardt Eldorado Convertible parts car
1985 Eldorado Convertible
1999 Eldorado Touring Coupe

Offline Ross Morgan #22943

  • Posts: 156
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2010, 05:35:25 PM »
I thought it was a good price - perhaps sometimes you can get lucky.  Soon to be seen driving the streets of Western Australia!  The sabres will immediately be changed for the correct Brougham wheels though.  Regards, Ross.
Logged

Offline David Smith

  • Posts: 690
  • 1968 Eldorado & 2007 DTS
  • CLC Number: 17592
  • Name: David Smith
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2010, 05:53:20 PM »
That's a beautiful car.   Congratulations!
Logged
Do people get more out of life because they own a Cadillac?

Or do people own a Cadillac because they get more out of life?

(1972 ad copy)

Online 76eldo

  • Posts: 1232
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2010, 06:11:50 PM »
Ross,

As they say on TV, "Well Bought".

$117,000.00 is still a whole lot of money for a car, but a beautiful Brougham with that pedigree?  what an investment.  I am surprised the Imperial Palace or Jay Leno didn't snap it up, but sometimes these auctions come up and not everyone is looking at that exact moment.

I hope it arrives safely.

Brian
Logged
Brian Rachlin,
Huntingdon Valley, Pa
CLC # 22443
Current collection:
1960 62 Series Convertible
1976 Eldorado Convertible
1980 Hess & Eisenhardt Eldorado Convertible
1981 Hess & Eisenhardt Eldorado Convertible parts car
1985 Eldorado Convertible
1999 Eldorado Touring Coupe

jeff1956

  • Guest
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2010, 11:04:47 PM »
Very beautiful car...I just have one question.  If Frank had the sabres installed on the car..not sure if he did or not, but if he did.  Then why would you want to remove them and put the brougham wheels back on?  Like I said....maybe he didn't have them fitted, but if he did I'd leave them alone.

Jeff
Logged

Offline Dave and Deb

  • Posts: 26
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2010, 12:33:34 AM »
Quote from: Ross Morgan #22943 on February 02, 2010, 05:35:25 PM
I thought it was a good price - perhaps sometimes you can get lucky.  Soon to be seen driving the streets of Western Australia!  The sabres will immediately be changed for the correct Brougham wheels though.  Regards, Ross.

Well done!  Another great car on it's way down under.  Enjoy!

Deb & Dave
Logged
1958 series 75 9 passenger sedan
1959 series 62 six window sedan
1960 series 62 convertible
Hunter Valley NSW Australia

Offline John Morris #23947

  • Posts: 819
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2010, 10:02:51 AM »
Somewhere I heard the original color of Franks car was "Wimbleton Grey" or some other beautiful grey color.
Logged
71 Olds 98 LS, 66 Fairlane 500 XL Convertible, 55 Packard Clipper Super, 58 Edsel Ranger, 72 Cheyenne Super, many 49-60 parts cars, abandoned "House Of Doom" full of 49-60 parts. Huge piles of engine parts, brackets, tin, Hydramatic & Jetaway parts,  thousands of stainless moldings, dozens of perfect sedan doors.

Offline 35-709

  • Posts: 1546
  • CLC Number: 4719
  • Name: G. Newcombe
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2010, 10:52:34 AM »
Right you are, John!  The original color was mentioned in the link that you provided at the start of this thread.

"Finished today in a Cordovan Red (the body plate paint code is 116, Wimbledon Grey)....."

 ;D  Geoff
Logged
1935 Cadillac Sedan
1973 Cadillac Caribou

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Phil Metzger

  • Guest
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2010, 12:54:20 PM »

Ross,
Exceptional good buy!  Congrats on the purchase.   The last time I spoke with an Aussie collector, he told me that all cars had to be converted to right hand drive, even those of antique status.  I sure hope that isn't the case with your Brougham. If this is true, do you have plans for the conversion and how you would handle the dash modifications?
Thanks
Logged

Offline Otto Skorzeny

  • Posts: 3854
  • 1956 Coupe de Ville aka Bismarck
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2010, 01:01:32 PM »
That law doesn't apply to cars of this vintage unless you're modifying it. If you hot rod an old car the steering wheel has to be switched to the wrong side.
Logged
fward

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for YOURSELF

HUGE VENDOR LIST CLICK HERE

Offline Dave and Deb

  • Posts: 26
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2010, 02:30:26 PM »
Not sure about the rules in Western Australia but in New South Wales there's no restrictions with left hand drive as long as the car's atleast 30 years old - modified or not.  I would think WA would be the same as NSW as the rule makers down here want to get things uniform across all states. 

Dave
Logged
1958 series 75 9 passenger sedan
1959 series 62 six window sedan
1960 series 62 convertible
Hunter Valley NSW Australia

ray w.

  • Guest
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2010, 03:29:28 PM »
Anyone know what happened to the blue 57 brougham that Frank Sinatra once owned?
Logged

Offline srk1941

  • Posts: 64
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2010, 04:25:44 PM »
Or his 1941 Sixty Special

Or Greta Garbo's?



Logged
Steven Keylon
1941 Cadillac Convertible Coupe
CLC# 16658

Offline Ross Morgan #22943

  • Posts: 156
Re: Frank Sinatras's Brougham Sold For Only $117,000!!!!!
« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2010, 06:43:37 PM »
No, we don't have to convert to Right Hand Drive (I think that law ceased 20 odd years ago).  There are lots of left hand drive cars running around here in Perth.  I took my '59 Oldsmobile 98 coupe out last Saturday and there was about 40 LHD cars driving around together - it's really not a problem driving this way (but why did there have to be both LHD AND RHD in the world?).  Regarding the sabres, I'm presuming that they were changed but I'm endeavouring to contact previous owners to find out more information first.  Interestingly, the person who signed the Certificate of Title over to me was Genevieve (Jenny) Craig and was part of a collection owned by Sid and Gen Craig.
Ross.
Logged
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »