Details

• Condition
  Pre-Owned Clear Title
• Engine
  V-8
• Drivetrain
  Rear Wheel Drive
• Interior
  Tan
• VIN #
  306449
• Mileage
  1111
• Transmission
  Manual
• Exterior Color
  Black/Green
• Stock #
  306449
• Warranty
  No-Warranty

1928 Cadillac Series 341-A Town Sedan - Al Capone's Armored Car
Celebrity Cars is privileged to offer one of the most significant surviving artifacts of Prohibition-era America: the armored 1928 Cadillac built for Alphonse "Al" Capone. Its ownership history is continuous and documented from 1932 to the present, corroborated by contemporary newspaper accounts, federal Bureau of Internal Revenue files, the descendants of the second known owner, and - remarkably - a living eyewitness to the armoring work itself.
Specifications Series 341-A Town Sedan 341 cu. in. L-head V-8, 90 bhp Three-speed manual transmission Beam front axle; full-floating rear axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs Four-wheel mechanical drum brakes 140-inch wheelbase Approximately 3,000 lbs. of armor plating as originally built Bulletproof glass approaching one inch in thickness The Chicago Connection
Emil Denemark ran one of the largest Cadillac dealerships on Chicago's south side and was related to Capone by marriage. His ties to the underworld were neither casual nor secret. His home and business were bombed in early 1927 - an incident he publicly dismissed as a political attack. In 1942 he was charged with selling cars without the required gasoline ration stickers. As late as 1950, his name surfaced in federal testimony before the Senate committee investigating organized crime in interstate commerce, where an investigator described Denemark as the dealer of choice for a succession of Chicago syndicate figures, noting that one of them had broken the pattern only once by buying elsewhere.
Denemark's most famous customer was Capone himself. On December 22, 1931, the Milwaukee Sentinel ran a story reporting that one of Capone's two Cadillac V-16s had been used to chauffeur Warden David Moneypenny of the Cook County jail, under a headline flatly calling it Capone's car and a subhead noting that explanations of the Chicago-Springfield trip...