Vehicle Description
1966 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham- ONLY 12,843 Miles! -429cid/340hp
4bbl Automatic Full Custom If you are searching for a one of a kind
Customized Cadillac with a really interesting history and build...
Well, the pictures tell the story! At the time of the build at
Custom Craft, President Nixon's Limousine was being built at the
same time and coincidentally, the initials "RMN" belonged to both
the owner of this Cadillac and Richard M. Nixon. The car has been
looked over by a mechanic and addressed any needs it has. Please
note the image of the Newspaper article in the Detroit Free Press
from Sunday, August 29th 1971 in the image gallery. This is simply
a well kept, "one of a kind" 12,843 mile 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood
Brougham "as it was built" with noted minor flaws from age. A note
about the company who built this car: "Custom Craft" was a thriving
company specializing in building cars for those who wanted
"personalized cars" in Detroit, Michigan. Many clients had Custom
Cadillacs built by Custom Craft purportedly including Richard M.
Nixon, Steve McQueen, Tom Jones, several English Rock Groups
(including "The Who"), Smokey Robinson, Liberace, and the King of
Saudi Arabia (to name only a few!). The Custom Craft Company was
owned by Heinz Prechter, Who founded ASC (American Sunroof
Corporation)- who is well know for creating the Sunroof Market for
Vehicles in the United States. By 1967, Prechter relocated his
company, now known as ASC Inc., to Southgate, Michigan and began
expanding beyond sunroofs to custom-tailored vinyl tops, building
prototypes and other customized vehicles. At its peak, ASC grew to
employ more than 5,300 at 60 sites across the U.S., Canada, Germany
and South Korea. Prechter was inducted posthumously into the
Automotive Hall of Fame in 2004, where he had been previously
honored as their Industry Leader of the Year in 1990 and given a
Distinguished Service Citation Award in 1996. Finally, he was
elected to the German American Hall of Fame in 2014
