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Huge hangover for copper car from Freddy Heineken En route

It really looked like last week that Freddy Heineken’s former Cadillac was put up for sale by the online auction house. The lot contained information about the history of the car and even included a photo of Heineken. Moreover, all kinds of old stories surfaced about this particular car, from a car dealer who bought the model in Belgium years ago.

Doubts

But research by Quote shows that this car, for which someone has deposited 56,000 euros, never belonged to Freddy Heineken. Shortly after publication on their website, the medium received messages expressing doubts about the history of the car. Those doubts were confirmed by Ton Thies, the former owner of a company specializing in VIP transport.

“A gross scandal,” Thies told Quote. “This car was once mine and is worth 3500 euros at most.” The real Cadillac of Heineken is according to him and others Heineken green. This copy is dark blue. Repainted, perhaps?

Multiple Cadillacs

No, because it now appears that there are several armored and Dutch-supplied Cadillac Fleetwoods. Ton Thies has indeed sold the original Heineken car to a Russian minister (incidentally with the permission of Heineken himself), but this specific model belongs to Thies himself. At that time he ordered two Cadillacs that he had armored in Italy. He used the cars as a VIP transport with personal security. The cars were never rented to the Heineken group, according to Thies.

Quote then immediately contacted BVA Auctions, but the latter has not yet responded. Rumor has it that the auction house hired a detective to investigate the matter further.

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