Handcrafted million-dollar V-16 Cadillacs have coming out party at Pebble Beach.
A pair of one-of-a-kind Cadillac Fleetwood V-16s that were available, but never ordered by customers during the Great Depression, will be among the cars on display at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance this week. Cadillac’s exhibit, open to the public August. 16-19 at Peter Hay Hill, features Cadillac’s newest cars along with the two custom-built Fleetwood Convertibles from 1934 and 1937. Each has a historically significant pedigree.
A 1934 rumble seat roadster model 5802, above, and a 1937 Phaeton model 5859, below, were part of Cadillac’s made-to-order Fleetwood collection, featured in the “build books” that customers used to select options for their cars. All other body styles were built for customers, but these two lavish models went unselected.
Decades later, noted automobile restorer and coachbuilder Fran Roxas built the Phaeton 5859 and Roadster 5802 from scratch, relying only on the original blueprints of Cadillac designer John Hampshire. Both have won best-in-class awards at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
Each recently sold at auction. The Phaeton 5859 sold for $962,500 and the Roadster 5802 for $1,001,000. Both vehicles are powered by Cadillac’s legendary16-cylinder engine. Cadillac designers recently used the original drawings as inspiration for the Ciel Convertible concept car shown for the first time in the Cadillac exhibit at Pebble Beach in 2011. It will be on display again this week. Cadillac will also showcase a 1953 LeMans at this year’s event. The LeMans, a relatively small and athletic design, is one of the famed Motorama show cars of the 1950s.
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