[SOLD] 1957 Cadillac Series 62 Sedan For Sale

1957 Cadillac Series 62 Sedan

Only 28,920 Original Miles!
Freshly Restored
Special Order Color
In Storage From 1961-2011
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VIN: 5762105134

This ‘57 Series 62 has a particularly interesting history. We purchased the car from a gentleman who, in 2011, had winched it out of a barn where it had sat since October of 1961. The previous owner had put it away fifty years earlier in his backyard barn in a Chicago suburb, only to have a tree fall on the barn in 1966 and trap the Cadillac in there. The guy we bought the car from had handwritten records documenting the whole experience and the subsequent cleaning and wrenching to get the car back on the road. He did quite a bit of mechanical work, shampoo’d the hell out of the interior, then began adding mileage on the car. He didn’t tackle the bodywork and paint; which the car did need after fifty years of stuff falling onto it and rubbing up against it. We had the body restored and painted its correct, special order color shortly after purchasing it. We’re told that when the car was winched out of the barn, he first had to cut the trees blocking the doors of the barn. The car’s brakes were frozen, engine was initially thought to have been locked up (but was later freed), and the interior was packed full of random junk, having been used for storage space. When the car was taken out of storage it had just 26,400 original miles on it. Since undergoing a thorough mechanical overhauling after its release from extended storage, the car has been driven just over 2000 miles. As it sits, this is a truly impressive car. It runs and drives tremendously well and really does feel like the low-mile, largely-original car that it is. The car will be sold with a handful of service receipts from 1960, extensive handwritten records of its 2011 recommissioning, an owner’s manual, a receipt for the body/paint work, as well as some more recent mechanical service receipts.

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