Parade Phaetons

["Rob P" <fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, then I saw the "Detroit" car in LA last summer. Anybody know how much 
Petersen paid for it? Just curious.


>From: Bob Schmitt <bsbrbank@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: IML: Parade Phaetons
>Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 05:13:26 -0700
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>Hi all -
>
>The "Detroit" car was sold from the Imperial Palace collection to Robert 
>Petersen and is now in the Petersen Museum collection (Los Angeles).  It 
>was at the "Spring Fling" in Woodley Park just a month ago.  The Los 
>Angeles car is still owned by the City of Los Angeles.
>
>Bob
>
>At 02:48 AM 5/18/04, you wrote:
>
>>There were three cars originally built as 1952 models. Then, they were 
>>redone
>>to modernize them to the 55/56 Imperial style. The New York car has always
>>been in NYC. The LA car was repainted for a movie in the mid 80s (I made 
>>the
>>missing letters for one side of the car as a favor to Chrysler Corporation 
>>as
>>they had disappeared over the years). The Detroit car was in the Paul 
>>Stern
>>collection for many years in Manheim, Pennsylvania until it was sold by 
>>his estate
>>in the earrly 80s.
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