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Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac V-8 Town Sedan is a beauty. Painted black and
green, the gangster's Sedan had 3,000 pounds of armour and nearly inch-thick
bulletproof glass with a flip-down bulletproof backlite making it - according
to RM - one of the earliest known examples of armored sedans.
It also had a specially installed siren and flashing lights hidden behind the
grille, along with a police scanner radio.
In 2008, Mr. Richard 'Cappy' Capstran, mentioned to a friend that as a young boy he helped his dad install some of the armor plating on Al Capone's Cadillac. In a recent recorded interview, Mr. Capstran recalled in great detail the circumstances surrounding this unusual job. Ernest Capstran's auto body shop had performed a high quality repair on another vehicle owned by the Capone syndicate, which prompted delivery of the brand new 1928 Cadillac to the shop shortly thereafter. Says Capstran, when the scope of the work was explained, "My dad said, 'we don't do that kind of work here.' And they (Capone's men) said 'you do now.'" At one time exhibited in carnivals across America and in England as a Capone car, the Cadillac eventually returned to the United States in the mid-1960s and passed through a number of museums - the Niagara Falls Antique Auto Museum, the Cars of the Greats museum, and the Smoky Mountain Car Museum - before the late John O'Quinn added it to his collection in 2006. Offered at the RM auction at St. John's with a $300,000 to $400,000 pre-auction estimate, the Cadillac sold in 2012 for $341,000, including the 10 percent buyer's premium. NADA's stated value for a 1928 Cadillac Model 341 four-door town sedan was $41,200. |
Al Capone's business card said
he was a used furniture dealer.
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