1941 60S truck!

[Steve Passmore]

What do you fellows think of the re-purposing of this 60 special? and 'Like new', he quotes!!!    Only 20K!!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1941-Cadillac-Fleetwood/162974535395?hash=item25f20a0ee3:g:SnkAAOSwBnZav-8w&vxp=mtr

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

This is Jack Miller's car that started out as one of my finds. After it's use in the funeral industry, the Lafayette, (IN) 40 & 8 used it as a parade car. When I first saw it in a field, I saw the windshield was not the Series 62 shape and wondered about the 60S body. When we found more of the car's history, the funeral home had several 60S cars used as units for the families. So they wanted their flower car to have the same fender lines and shape as their other vehicles. Jack worked for years getting this together and did a pretty good job. At first, I didn't see the pictures of the car (and Jack) in my back yard. Oh, that was a long time ago. Now we have grown pine trees fifty feet tall to the left of where the car was parked. (And a couple of the pictures were ones I took at Jack's home.)

[Steve Passmore]

Nice bit of history there Barry. Thanks for that.

[chrisntam]

It'd be nice if there were better pictures.

Who's the guy in pics?

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

That's my friend, Jack Miller. He's done a '52 convertible, then a couple of '41 convt. sedans, and a '41 convt coupe before the "truck."

[Steve Passmore]

What year do you think are the black and white pictures?

[35-709]

Better pics.
https://barnfinds.com/pampered-pickup-1941-cadillac-series-60/   

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

I couldn't read the license plate on the trailer, and I don't want to start rummaging through old S/Ss to see when I sold some of the parts. Only one skirt was good, as I found the other one in the drive behind the out buildings across the road. It had been run over several times. I'd think that it must have been in the mid-seventies when I had it. More of the tale about the car... I think the second time I came by to look at it, I was driving my '57 convertible I think. I had chosen to drive down the gravel road a little further when I was stopped by a Deputy Sheriff.

He wanted to know "what I was doing on "his" road." (Where he lived.) I told him that I was thinking of buying the old red car and was just driving down the road to see where it went. He seemed to be satisfied by my story, especially when I named the car's owner and that I knew Jim Senesac who lived on the main road nearby. It's strange what you remember when you see an old picture.

[35-709]

The more I think about this car the more I think the eBay auction is a scam.  The pictures are from an eBay auction back in May of 2016, the car was then in Terre Haute, Indiana and clearly exhibited Indiana plates.  Now the car, with the same exact pictures (but of much poorer quality) is back on eBay with a higher "Buy it Now" and (the red flag for me)it is now supposedly in Washington state.  I remember that there have been 2 or 3 Cadillac sales/auction scams, all from the state of Washington, in the past year or so.  I have bid on this car and fortunately have been outbid and will not bid on it again.  I may be wrong but a heads up!

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

Yeah, but were my old pictures included in that auction? Maybe I should call Charlotte and ask where the car went. I don't think that it went all that far. Jack is in a nursing home now, but his wife and son handled getting rid of the car. Good detective work. I'm glad you got outbid. They didn't mention that the interior seats are not leather. His upholsterer talked him out of the leather as Jack never skimped on his restorations in that regard.