Al Capone’s armored 1928 Cadillac with gunfight window up for auction ...
The 1928 Cadillac V-8 of green body and black bumpers matched the colors of Chicago's police cars of the era, and it came with the first police-band radio in private hands. It held 3,000 lbs. of asbestos-wrapped steel armor plating and the glass windows designed to quick-drop for return fire were one inch thick. There was even a hidden siren.
There were questions about the car, which has been on display in museums for decades in Great Britain and the United States.
RM Auctions, the company selling the Cadillac this weekend in Michigan, did its own research and found a 93-year-old man who as a child helped install the armor for Capone in his father's shop.
"My dad said, 'we don't do that kind of work here,'" Richard "Cappy" Capstran says. "And they (Capone's men) said 'you do now.'"
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