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AllAboutCams · 07-10-2012, 08:30 AM

Been sat in your bedroom thinking up plans for a Prohibition-era style crime syndicate, but lacking a suitable car? You're in luck. Professional naughty boy Alphonse 'Al' Capone's bulletproof car is about to roll (slowly) onto the auction block.

The 1928 Cadillac V-8 Town Sedan is one of the earliest surviving bulletproof cars. It's fitted with inch-thick glass and lined with nearly 1,360kgs of armor plating. Being made of asbestos-wrapped steel plate with pieces of lead embedded, it's heavy-duty stuff - just the job for bug deflection as you drive down the M1.

"So, what's powering this monstrous brute?" you ask, re-adjusting your fedora and scrambling for the cheque book.

Well, it's a 90 bhp, 341 cubic inch L-head V-8 engine, so it's not exactly going to be fast. But that power goes through a three-speed manual transmission, and you've got beam front axle and full-floating rear axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs, and four-wheel mechanical drum brakes - so handling should fall into the field of ?interesting'.

But check the gangster gadgets. Things like a rear window that can drop quickly allowing occupants to shoot baddies. It's also got a circular cutout large enough to accommodate the muzzle of a machine gun for when things get serious. And to top it all off, we've even seen a photograph from 1933 that shows the car equipped with a tow bar, so you can even take your Buccaneer caravan with you.

If you fancy this chunk of gangsters paradise, you'll need somewhere between $300,000 and $500,000, as that's what it's expected to go for when it will go under the hammer in Monterey, California, next month...

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brassmonkey · 07-10-2012, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by xxxupdate

Been sat in your bedroom thinking up plans for a Prohibition-era style crime syndicate, but lacking a suitable car? You're in luck. Professional naughty boy Alphonse 'Al' Capone's bulletproof car is about to roll (slowly) onto the auction block.

The 1928 Cadillac V-8 Town Sedan is one of the earliest surviving bulletproof cars. It's fitted with inch-thick glass and lined with nearly 1,360kgs of armor plating. Being made of asbestos-wrapped steel plate with pieces of lead embedded, it's heavy-duty stuff - just the job for bug deflection as you drive down the M1.

"So, what's powering this monstrous brute?" you ask, re-adjusting your fedora and scrambling for the cheque book.

Well, it's a 90 bhp, 341 cubic inch L-head V-8 engine, so it's not exactly going to be fast. But that power goes through a three-speed manual transmission, and you've got beam front axle and full-floating rear axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs, and four-wheel mechanical drum brakes - so handling should fall into the field of ?interesting'.

But check the gangster gadgets. Things like a rear window that can drop quickly allowing occupants to shoot baddies. It's also got a circular cutout large enough to accommodate the muzzle of a machine gun for when things get serious. And to top it all off, we've even seen a photograph from 1933 that shows the car equipped with a tow bar, so you can even take your Buccaneer caravan with you.

If you fancy this chunk of gangsters paradise, you'll need somewhere between $300,000 and $500,000, as that's what it's expected to go for when it will go under the hammer in Monterey, California, next month...

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run for cover when you see that car coming.

Vapid - BANNED FOR LIFE · 07-10-2012, 08:42 AM

MediaGuy · 07-10-2012, 08:46 AM

I bet the horn goes "AHOOOOGAAAH"

:D

campimp · 07-10-2012, 08:50 AM

that is badass

Vendzilla · 07-10-2012, 09:53 AM

I remember this on the history channel, car is heavy as hell

brassmonkey · 07-10-2012, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Vendzilla

I remember this on the history channel, car is heavy as hell

you were in the military you know the armor is heavy

Rochard · 07-10-2012, 10:09 AM

That is bad ass. And I bet you it was pimp for it's time. Look at the stance of the car.

Spunky · 07-10-2012, 10:40 AM

That would be awesome to add to the collection

xNetworx · 07-10-2012, 10:45 AM

So sick. That is a wicked car

Yngwie · 07-10-2012, 10:55 AM

at least now when someone is tail gating you, you can get your passenger to jump in the back, open up the back window and shoot the driver of the car behind you. Problem solved. lol

J. Falcon · 07-10-2012, 11:02 AM

That is a piece of criminal history.

Danny B · 07-10-2012, 02:57 PM

That car will sell for way more than half a mil.

John-ACWM · 07-11-2012, 06:54 AM

Damn cool, I'd buy it.

Vendzilla · 07-11-2012, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by brassmonkey

you were in the military you know the armor is heavy

I didn't have anything to do with Armor, we were more of a stealth operation. On a submarine, they had to find us first, then it was too late for them.

Aidoru · 07-11-2012, 12:32 PM

It might be bulletproof but anyone wanting to get you won't have a hard time following you in that thing haha.

AlCapone · 07-11-2012, 01:06 PM

Buy my car.

dirtydiablos · 07-11-2012, 01:07 PM

Truly Gangster!!!

Scott McD · 07-11-2012, 01:08 PM

Pretty cool. Just out of my price range though. Dammit!

SPP · 07-12-2012, 01:35 AM

I love it! love it!

travs · 07-12-2012, 02:11 AM

are the wheels bulletproof too?

07-10-2012, 08:30 AM	#1
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