If a 1959 Cadillac wasn’t long enough, this one (probably a Series 62) is said to measure 27 feet. That’s because it’s been converted into a stretch limousine. The work appears to be more recent than having been done by one of those conversion outfits that made ambulances and hearses back in the day. We’re told you’ll have to contact the seller in McKean, Pennsylvania to get the full story on how this limo came to be. For now, it’s available here on Facebook Marketplace for the lofty price of $99,000. Kudos for the larger than life tip, JDC!
The big Cadillacs got redesigned in 1959 (and updated in 1960). The tailfins got bigger and bigger and the ones on the ‘59s might be the loftiest of the era. They deployed GM’s C-body platform that the Oldsmobile 98 and Buick Electra would also utilize. The cars were 19 feet long and weighed in at around 5,000 pounds.
Though we’re told this limo has just 63,000 miles, its 390 cubic inch V8 (325 horses) has been rebuilt. And that motor is paired with a 4-speed Hydramatic (we’re assuming both pieces of hardware are numbers matching). About eight feet of length was added to the Caddy, presumably all in the wheelbase and the passenger capacity is said to be eight people. But does that include the rumble seat added where the trunk once was?
The bodywork, paint, and interior all look to have been done well to pull this project off. More recent work performed includes new batteries (there are two of them), headliner, the divider between the front and back, some of the upholstery, and a sound system. We’re told RGB lighting has also been added to the passenger arena. Facebook seems to be the least likely place to advertise a $100k vehicle, but free is free. I’d hate to have to parallel park this beast!
In a weird way, this beast works! Glad they chose the flat-top sedan to do such a project. Limits the blind spots! But I’d dump the circa `75 Caddy wire wheel covers and find a set of the `59-`60 Fleetwood wheelcovers–it wouldn’t look so cheesy. Whoever drives this will need to plan left turns 3 blocks in advance!
Very cool ……..Just not 100k cool
And a rumble seat!
The bill from the chrome shop as well as the paint shop would be more than the $99,000 asking price. Very classy looking Cadillac
Uncle Frank would say, ” When you only want to go first class “
How are you supposed to get into the rumble seat?
Very carefully.
Help me to understand why I like this so much! I might just marry my lovely wife again so I can have this Caddy in my wedding ‼️ 🤣
Having grown up and learning to drive a “Standard” ’59 Fleetwood limo. (Dad bought a low mile, inexpensive ex funeral coach for vacations as we always had additional family members along.) IIRC it was 20 or 21 feet long. But, Will Fox, it is easier to make left hand intersection turns than right hand ones! Take it from someone who drove a ’59 Limo in the City of Chicago! So the story goes, The ’59 Caddy limo was the longest one produced at the time. (Short compared to this custom unit featured here.) AND I was lucky in the fact that I never had to parallel park the limo!
WOW a mother in law seat !
Approximately $13.00 per pound. This doesn’t seem too steeply priced. I’m trying to talk the wife into it, she’s not having it.
Wonder if anyone’s sat/ridden in that rumble seat…the cushion looks extra short. Let alone, how to get in?
Wonder if anyone’s sat/ridden in that rumble seat…the cushion looks extra short. Let alone, how to get in?
What is that urinal-looking thing?
Champagne bucket!
Why isn’t this thing in Vegas? That seems like the most likely place for it at one of the many strip chapels.
Maybe the one that advertises “Joan Collins was married here!” Both are fossils.
Why would they pick the 4 window flat top design?
Interesting question. The formal roof like the one we had diffinatly gives you more privacy. Besides, all the casino “drive ups” have plenty of turning radius for this and others in like stretch form. Evidently this was for show and not privacy. PLUS, If it was in Las Vegas you would spend a fortune tinting the windows darker! Although I prefer this top treatment. It makes the car look sleeker!
@Wayne
It wasn’t THAT expensive when I had my windows tinted in Vegas. But that eas more than 10 years ago. But yeah, you would definitely need them tinted limo black for Vegas.
I guess on a limo the flat top is more formal looking than the sweeping coupe or sedan de Ville top. The factory limo had an even more formal top.
The flat top 6 window is what makes this conversion ‘work’.
One wonders why some people do some things!
now about that late 50s early 60s frame concept, make it an “X” with no side rails. Did the conversion shop just extend the center section? Have seen a number of those GM models that have not fared well when making unexpected side contact with stationary objects like a tree or power pole. Not a pretty site.
So just don’t go drifting with it. Drive it like a reasonable person.
One thing’s for sure, it would make an awesome prom/parade
vehicle. I would NOT like to see
“Hard luck Harry” Hinthorne driving this beast. Even though
you could’ve fit the whole band into it! The rumble seat is quite
ingenious, but I do beg the question: Just how DO you get into the rumble seat?!! Would be
a lot of fun over at Old Town in
Kissimmee if you can negotiate the cruise area there. Room enough for you and all your friends to ride in style! And yes
Angel, this obnoxiously over the
top machine should be in Lost Wages as we used to call Las Vegas back in the day. Or, for grins and giggles, you could take
it to Nashville, drive it around town, and look as obnoxious as
Webb Pierce did driving around in
his ’63 Pontiac Bonneville convertible with all the pistols and rifles affixed to the sides of it. He and Faron Young had this
Can you top this feud going on in
the 1960s. Now I was just a kid when those guys were doing that,
but the older men I played music
with told me all about it. That feud became the stuff of legend
Now lessee, Webb Pierce had the
tricked out Bonneville, and Faron
Young had the guitar shaped swimming pool. Yep, okay, I got
it right. Sometimes all my memories of that time run together and it takes me a bit of time to sort ’em out these days. A really cool and over the top car.
Well, here’s another one I can’t afford!
Silver’s an interesting color choice for this, you’d expect a ’59 Caddy stretched into a limo in (presumably) the ’80s to be pink.
It would make a good party limo but I don’t want to think about how hard it would be to get commercial insurance for it. The “Wild West” days for that business are long gone. It would almost be more useful to an actual car service business as a derelict shell for no more than 5 grand, then they could put it out front as a sign/mascot.
Awesome 59 damn!!!!
Interesting ~ but $99K?? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I can just imagine the drive shaft
on this thing. It’s more than likely
set up like the Chevy vans were in
the ’80s where you had a short shaft coming off the transmission with 2 U joints and
a carrier bearing behind that followed by 2 more U joints and
another carrier bearing further on
down the drive shaft in the center
with the last 2 U joints and a third
drive shaft feeding the rear axle.
Now just imagine having to change all 6 of them?!! At least
you could take out all your frustrations while you beat each
one out with a ball peen hammer
when you have to change them and beat the 💩 out the drive shafts when you have to drive the
new ones back in unless anyone
out there knows a better way to
do that. Last set I did was on am
old ’69 Ranchero that my 1st wife
and used as a beater truck to haul equipment from town to town after I left Midwest Entertainment in ’79. And yeah, I
felt pretty good after the whole
experience! I was sooo mellow
after that. Too damned bad I can’t do it anymore. Sometimes I
really need it. Can’t afford to go the driving range and hit a bucket
of golf balls, so what’s a fella supposed to do?