Re: [Chrysler300] Palo Alto

["JERRY LINDSAY" <jerrylindsay.300h@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

even then you could foresee the 300 seats
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From: "John J. Hertog" <crossram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'rob kern'" <robkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <jfreddie@xxxxxxxxxxx>; 
<Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <lettercars@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 7:45 PM
Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] Palo Alto


> it IS the Norseman that's in the Andrea Doria.  One of the most 
> fascinating
> things, about this concept car, is that precious few pictures even exist 
> of
> the car!  It had the most beautiful, cantilevered roof .  The Imperial 
> Club
> has one picture of it on their site:
> http://www.imperialclub.com/Articles/GhiaStory/Ghia222-reg.jpg
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> The roof line / front windshield, while quite similar to that of a 57 300,
> differs because the windshield is a one-piece curved affair, with  no 
> posts
> at all.  The rest of the car is rather ugly, in my opinion.
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> As far as the car's current condition, yes, it HAS been seen since the 
> ship
> went down. Here is an excellent "cut and paste" from a relevant web site:
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> http://shipwreck.blogs.com/shipwrecks_historical_tim/andrea_doria/index.html
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> February 06, 2006
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> Prototype Car of the Future Lost on the Andrea Doria - Norseman
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> One of the "casualties" of the Andrea Doria sinking has received quite a 
> bit
> of attention in the past decade; however, this casualty was not a person 
> but
> a beautiful automobile called the Norseman. The Norseman was a special
> prototype car that was a joint project of Chrysler and Ghia. It is thought
> that the complete development of this automobile cost more than $100,000
> 1956-dollars. Normally, all passenger cars were placed in the garage 
> section
> of the Andrea Doria that is slightly aft of the collision point where the
> Stockholm impaled the Doria underneath the bow wing bridge. These cars 
> would
> have been placed on to the Doria by use of a crane and meticulously parked
> in the garage and arranged strategically for stability. However, the
> Norseman was no passenger vehicle and was specially packed and treated 
> with
> extra care. The Norseman was put into a wooden crate and placed in the
> number 2 cargo area. While looking for a lost diver, I had an opportunity 
> to
> see the Norseman for myself in the cargo hold. The crate had disintegrated
> and the car was in very, very poor condition. The ocean's salt water 
> invaded
> the Norseman's metal and most of the car is rust, corrosion and a heap of
> indistinguishable junk. The tires are still there and have assisted to its
> identification.
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> I have been back to the cargo area several times (it is pretty scary in 
> the
> cargo hold because the ship is lying on its starboard side) and visited 
> the
> Norseman on a couple other occasions. I contributed to an article authored
> by a New York Times reporter that appeared in the Hemmings Motor News in 
> the
> early 1990's. In 1996, a website in Germany translated part of this 
> Hemmings
> article and added additional information. The link to this article is:
> http://riekmann.prohosting.com/magazin/chrysler_norseman/chrysler_norseman.h
> tm
> I have been interviewed about my dives to the Norseman several times since
> the original Hemmings article appeared. I have not been back to this cargo
> site since 1994 and with all the decay that the wreck has had over the 
> past
> 10 years, it is doubtful if I will ( or anyone else) ever get a chance to
> see the remains of the Norseman again.
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