This is about as far away from a bread-and-butter classic Cadillac offering as it’s possible to get. Located here on eBay, near Portland, Oregon, it’s a senior trophy winner, a 1935 370-D Cadillac V-12 seven-passenger leather-back town cabriolet by Fleetwood. It won Pebble Beach three times and has a long list of awards from shows around the country. Multiple show winners in Concours condition don’t usually sell for a song, but by September 29 this one had bid only to $50,000, obviously far below the reserve. Classics.com shows an average sale price for V-12 Cadillacs between 1931 and 1935 of $138,157. And this is a very special car, far better than average. It was ordered in January of 1935 by wealthy industrialist Julian Leigh Perkins of Springfield, Massachusetts.

It seems Perkins’ wife, Mae, had been in several auto accidents and he wanted her to get chauffeured. A live-in “man” was hired. The car served the family well, but with 35,000 miles on the odometer at the start of World War II it went into gas-rationing-mandated storage in an aircraft hangar. It remained there until Mae Perkins died at 95 in 1967. It took until 1973 before a Los Angeles contractor, Jack Frank, bought it, with four flat tires, out of the warehouse.

The Cadillac, now in California, went to the legendary Santa Monica restoration shop Hill and Vaughn (featuring race driver Phil Hill) as one of that company’s first five projects. The work went on for three years, and the car was comprehensively restored, including a V-12 rebuild. The work was done in time for the 1977 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, where it was First in Class, Most Elegant, and runner-up for Best in Show. Class wins also happened at Pebble in 1993 and 2014. Sixty more shows followed, with the most recent being a 2013 First in Class at the LeMay Museum Concours in Tacoma Washington. It’s a Classic Car Club of America senior car.

In 2004 the Cadillac was bought by a close friend of the Frank family, who’d been there when the Hill and Vaughn restoration wrapped up in 1977. It’s reportedly still a car that would score in the high 90s at any Concours d’Elegance. The odometer shows 43,10 miles.

The rear upholstery is still soft, and the original carpeting and headliner are in place. The rear hardware was gold plated by Fleetwood, and all that’s there too. The original intercom is still in place, and still not hooked up (by order of Mr. Perkins, who didn’t want his wife bothering the chauffeur). The black paint looks good, all the glass is intact, as is the front-seat leather. Even the rubber seals are supple. A secret compartment still holds the chauffeur’s umbrella. The V-12 starts right up, and the three-speed manual shifts smoothly. The vacuum-assisted brakes work as intended. All the gauges work, too.

The vendor asserts the car could not be duplicated for less than $250,000, which may be true—though it doesn’t mean it will bring that much in today’s market for 1930s cars. Only eight of the 370-D Fleetwood leather-back V-12 town cabriolets were built for 1935, and this is apparently the single example extant. Another may lurk somewhere undiscovered, the vendor says. The car comes with copious amounts of original literature, as well as piles of trophies and a gallon of Hill and Vaughn touch-up paint. The vendor: “If you are looking for a truly one-of-a-kind Full Classic Cadillac with an impeccable restoration and 40+ year major show-winning history, this is the one. It is ready to return to the show circuit and garner more trophies for the new owner, or just be enjoyed as a rolling work of art.” It’s hard to argue with any of that. It’s a top-drawer show car, and ready to go.