This is my Barbara Ann; an 89 Brougham, with a bare bones stock Oldsmobilde Rocket 307 small block. She was manufactured in GM's Arlington Texas facility, in April of 89, and is one of 12,212. She has the d’Elegance interior package, and came with gold emblems. I’ve been adding vintage Cadillac emblems as to display the heritage and history of the Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. In 89, there were a total of 28,926 Brougham's made without the d'Elegance package, but only 12,212 made with it.

Merlettes

Stock

Chrome can be dangerous with a nice shine

 

Before and after: I added a spear base to the hood ornament

I added a chrome centerline to the hood (used on the Cadillac De Ville line).

 

Oldsmobile Rocket 307

 

Classic V-crest, also used on the DeVille lines and the Fleetwood Brougham until 1975.

Before and After

I bought two hardtop pillar shields and cut out the emblem to rebuild the originals

 

I moved the rear quarter-panel Brougham script to the front, because thats were Cadillac put them in the early 70's.

1976 SeVille hubcaps that were an option for the Fleetwood Brougham. The emblem is custom gold to match Barbara Ann's gold emblem package.

Vintage Brougham d'Elegance quarter-panel script.

In the 1972 Cadillac stopped putting special designation on the Fleetwood Sixty Special, saying that all Fleetwood models were automatically Sixty Specials. In 86 the Fleetwood Brougham line separated into the Fleetwood and Brougham, where Brougham continued with the traditional chassis and body, and Fleetwood became front wheel drive and aerodynamic. My opinion is that the Brougham should have retained the Sixty Special designation (I jacked this one off a 91 Fleetwood). So anyone out there with a Brougham, if you see some prick driving an 87 or grater Fleetwood(FWD), steal his Sixty Special Bage, because it belongs on the trunk of YOUR Cadillac.

 

Everyone else does "Wreaths" under the locks.

Cadillac Motor Car Division, Heritage of Ownership

The original dealer badge: Barrett Of Youngstown

Gold Taillight emblem and marker light emblem, both takes on '40's hood ornaments

 

 

 

Upgraded the radio knobs because the wood grain fell off the old plastic ones. These are from an early ‘80’s Cadillac radio with the knobs on either side. The knobs aren’t interchangeable between the two styles, so I had to modify the older ones to fit and function.

Classic tunes for a classic ride

 

The square door lamp lens from an '80's De Ville RWD has the Cadillac crest, while the factory lenses for the Brougham just has a blank metal square in the center (look closely at the left hand corner of the other interior shot).

The owner's manual came with the car and had the original warrenty book and a Cadillac Roadside Service card.

The two on the right are the originals; the ones on the left were purchaced to make a complete set.

I use this former Cadillac Gold Key to jump the ALDL and pull DTCs. Why? Cause it's Gangsta as hell.

92,704 miles this Cadillac has been on the road and I've been behind the wheel for 21,376 of them.

 

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