Or, like me, you could have been drawn not by celebrity but by the stunning proportion and coach-built detail of a 1947 Cadillac that quite literally was brought back from the dead.
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The closest Mr. Moeller came to doing any sort of formal design sketch was taking a photograph of the car in profile, slicing out sections from the center and putting the two ends together until he found proportions that pleased his eye. Then he went to work, cutting and welding. He replaced the hearse?s tall top with the roof from a ?57 Chevrolet station wagon, grafted on rear fenders and tailfins from a late-?40s/early ?50s Cadillac, split the one-piece rear hatch to create a wagon-style clam-shell door and installed it all over the chassis and powertrain from a ?67 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham sedan.
Inside, the car is customized with leather, oak and birch. The wood on the exterior is ash and mahogany.
The woody wagon drives, said Mr. Moeller, like a ?67 Cadillac. It looks like something Detroit designers only might have dreamed of building. It sold at Barrett-Jackson for $52,800.
