Will appear at Bonhams’s upcoming Scottsdale auction.
The Bonhams description offers little about the ambulance’s origins, other than noting that Fleetwood originally bodied it as a 4375S four-door sedan, the most common of Cadillac V-16 bodystyles, with no center divider between driver and passenger compartments. Cadillac built 501 such cars and another 438 in a similar bodystyle with a center divider. Sometime after 1935, when Cadillac began to offer commercial chassis, an enterprising and apparently unknown coachbuilder rebodied this Cadillac V-16, chassis number 700731, into an ambulance, updating its appearance with a 1935 Cadillac grille, hood and fenders, and 1935 Cadillac wheels and wheelcovers. Bonhams has set an estimate of $65,000 to $85,000 on the ambulance ahead of its Scottsdale sale, which will take place January 17 at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa.
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The Bonhams description offers little about the ambulance’s origins, other than noting that Fleetwood originally bodied it as a 4375S four-door sedan, the most common of Cadillac V-16 bodystyles, with no center divider between driver and passenger compartments. Cadillac built 501 such cars and another 438 in a similar bodystyle with a center divider. Sometime after 1935, when Cadillac began to offer commercial chassis, an enterprising and apparently unknown coachbuilder rebodied this Cadillac V-16, chassis number 700731, into an ambulance, updating its appearance with a 1935 Cadillac grille, hood and fenders, and 1935 Cadillac wheels and wheelcovers. Bonhams has set an estimate of $65,000 to $85,000 on the ambulance ahead of its Scottsdale sale, which will take place January 17 at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa.
More pictures and full story here....