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marilyn monroe's 1961 dodge polara 500 convertible

The website that describes this car is in error. They think it's a 1955 model whereas is is really a 1959 model - not the same thing at all.

Quote: Nor will visitors be able to ignore the bright pink 1955 Chrysler Crown Imperial Convertible (€28,000-40,000), formerly the property of Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, and first among a number of machines formerly owned by the likes of Mick Jagger and Elton John!
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You have any more pictures of this car so we can see it in its glory? Anyone?

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Actually Ward Cleaver didn't buy MoPar until the third season. He was strictly a FoMoCo man in Season One and Two (1957 Ford). The 1957 Ford's tailfins were tiny in comparison to what was being offered by the 1957 Forward Look line.

I agree with the recommendation of the movie "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, World." It was a 90 minute advertisement for Chrysler Corporation, and the plot was pretty funny too.

You can find some clips of the "Peter Gunn Show" on the 59 Plymouth web site:

http://www.59plymouth.net/ephemera/video/tvshows.html

I don't think the stories hold up all that well but the cars are great. The series has been released on DVD.

It's probably still there too. Hemingway was admired in Cuba.

He should have taken the car then and not the plane on his last Midwestern tour.

Nelson A. Rockefeller's '60 Chrysler Imperial Ghia limousine, ordered when he became governor of the state of New York.  Replaced in 1970 by another Chrysler limo.   He later became Vice President of the US.   This is a one-of-one built in 1960 with the 4-window body and a small oval back glass.

In more recent years the car was in the Jay Stream collection.  Mr. Stream was Wayne Newton's manager.

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Most of the Highway Patrol programs are now being streamed on Hulu. Here is the web site; "http://www.hulu.com/highway-patrol"

Shown here is Carl Kiekhaefer, owner of Mercury Outboard Marine, with the accumulation of trophies won by the Chrysler 300 racing team during the 1955 and 1956 racing seasons.   He is leaning on the 300B used as a promotional car having won the Flying Mile at Daytona Beach Speed Week in 1956.  While the many race cars would probably properly be said to belong to the corporation, the '56 Imperial Ghia limousine in the background on the driveway was Carl's personal family car.  He drove a black 300B to "work"!

Note on the roof of the car is promoted the fall NASCAR road race at Elkhart Lake, WI, nearby to Merc Marine.   In '56 and early '57, NASCAR briefly actually tried a road racing series.

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I think we are seeing an accidental trick played on the film by the reflection of the steps or whatever off the top of the glass.  The reason I say that is every OTHER angle taken around that time and that day as shown on this page:

http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1960/Kennedy/index.htm

Particularly click to open the first photo and then, when open, click it again to enlarge it.   The Kennedy windshield appears to be as flat as the Rockefeller windshield, only curving enough to butt horizontally into the gasket at the roof line.

The NAGS glass catalog only shows ONE windshield for ALL 1957 through 1963 Imperial body styles: W465.  There simply was not any other piece of glass to fit these cars, nothing for converts or limos or sedans.  W465 was the ONLY windshield and it has to be in both of those cars.   Even though the photo is a year earlier, there was no other glass available for that car!

In 1964 a new glass, W648 came out for all Imperials except convertibles with continued to use the W465.

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