Sopranos Cars Cross the Block

I’ve never seen one measly minute of the Sopranos. I also have never seen any of the Godfather movies, and I found Goodfellas only mildly interesting. So I don’t know squat about this Paulie Walnuts or Patsy Parisi. Nor do I care.

But I do know that $18,000 for a 2003 Cadillac CTS with nearly 100,000 miles on the odometer is about twice what any similar car without HBO provenance should go for. Then again, the Barrett-Jackson auction over the weekend where the car sold at no reserve did take place in Palm Beach, Florida, the epicenter of God’s Waiting Room–or, as a friend of mine calls it, America’s Wang. Plenty of well-off retirees were on hand all weekend, so maybe one of their like snapped it up.

As for the other six cars that formed the Sopranos collection at Barrett-Jackson, a 1997 Mercury Villager sold for $3,100 (normally $4,000-$5,000); Vito’s 2000 Cadillac DeVille, complete with front-end damage, sold for $7,500 (normally $8,000-$9,000 without the front-end damage); each of Patsy’s bullet-hole-ridden 1993 Cadillacs sold for $2,500 (normally $2,000-$3,000 sans ventilation); and each of the 1999 Lincoln Town Car “hit man” cars sold for $2,600 (normally $4,000-$5,000). Thus, save for the Paulie Walnuts Caddy, collector cars these weren’t. Two more pics after the jump.