1940 CADILLAC V-16 OPEN FRONT TOWN CAR. Black with tan broadcloth in rear and black leather in the front. This is 1 of only 2 V-16 Town Cars that were built in 1940. 1940 was the last year for Cadillac”s Flagship V-16 and these 2 cars cost approx 20% more than the next most expensive American cars made that year which was the V-16 Convertible Sedan. This car has 95 % original paint .The interior is 100% original and still in very good condition. It has had a new top installed and the front and rear chrome have been replated. The car also comes with much documentation and a known ownership since 1970. It has been known since the early 70s as the Eddie Cantor car and it is very likely that the entertainer was the original owner. The car also belonged to Singer/Songwriter Neil Young for close to 30years. The mechanicals have recently been serviced and new tires installed. It runs and drives well and is very useable as is. All books and history comes with the car.

$115,000

Introduced in early 1930 the first series Cadillac V-16 firmly positioned General Motors top brand at the pinnacle of the luxury automobile market. Cadillac made no secret of its ambitions sending a Salon of catalog custom bodied examples on a tour of Europe where they successfully took orders in competition with European luxury marques like Rolls-Royce Hispano-Suiza and Isotta Fraschini. The coachwork selection offered on the V16 chassis was vast and the entire automobile from the appearance of the overhead valve 452 cubic inch engine to the selection of interior appointments and accessories was carefully thought out designed and effected in meticulous detail and quality. The earliest Cadillac V-16s were bodied by Fleetwood in Pennsylvania a well-established firm with a record of bodying prestigious marques in substantial volume following semi-custom manufacturing techniques which had been acquired by General Motors Fisher Body in 1925. In mid-1930 the Fleetwood Pennsylvania shop was closed and all Fleetwood body production moved to its Detroit factories now incorporating 1.5 million square feet but the earliest Cadillac V-16s with their Pennsylvania-built bodies are regarded by experienced collectors as the best built and trimmed built using superior materials and methods by long-term skilled hands. This 1930 Cadillac 452 V-16 All-Weather Phaeton Fleetwood style 4380 is one of those few highly regarded Pennsylvania-bodied V-16s. Its All-Weather Phaeton coachwork displays many of the attributes which distinguish the best of Fleetwood coachwork particularly the straight-through body line rollup windows and division and the distinctive vee-windshield that only the Fleetwood-built bodies employed. It was originally delivered to Cadillacs Los Angeles dealer Don Lee and has been authenticated as complete and as-built engine drivetrain and body on its original chassis. It also has its original Cadillac-supplied luggage trunk an item that rarely survives with its original chassis and body. Equipment includes a set of full chrome Buffalo wire wheels dual sidemounted spares with mirrors radiator stoneguard Pilot-Ray lights and Cadillac heron radiator mascot. It is subtly liveried in two shades of green accented by a contrasting green coachline a LeBaron-style hood sweep panel tan leather upholstery and light tan cloth top with tan piping matching the upholstery. The restoration is to concours standards endorsed by its recent selection for display at the Meadow Brook Concours and it has been maintained in concours-quality condition by its owners. Documentation includes a copy of its original Cadillac data sheet authenticating its original as-delivered configuration owners manual Fleetwood Bodies owners manual and other historic paperwork. The interior woodwork is exquisite not only in finish and presentation but also in its intricate detail and the elaborate figure of the wood itself. This is one of the finest examples of Cadillacs legendary 452 V-16 with important Fleetwood Pennsylvania built All-Weather Phaeton vee windshield open coachwork restored and maintained to concours standards in beautiful contemporary colors a rare beautiful and powerful example of one of the finest and most exclusive chassis of the classic era.

$420,500