Just saw the New York Parade Phaeton-long

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

There were three cars, and all three of them were built around 1952, before the 
Forward Look symbol was used. All three cars were returned to Chrysler and 
updated to '56 style trim. The Forward Look symbol was added at that time. 

My recollection was that there was a car in Los Angeles, one in New York, and 
one in Detroit. I remember reading in the '60s that the New York car was 
destroyed by vandals, and consequently junked. Could this car be the one that 
was originally in Detroit or did someone actually find, and salvage the 
original New York car? The L.A. car has been showing up all over the place for 
years and was restored (I think) in the early 1970's. 

I also heard that during the 1960's Chrysler sold the L.A. car to the City of 
Los Angeles for $1.00. At that time it was known that only two of the three 
cars had survived.

Paul

In a message dated 5/17/2004 3:04:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
fristpenny@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

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> It's great that it's being restored. Even in this condition, it was still an 
> impressive car.  Another thing I noticed was that the car had the Forward 
> Look symbol on the front fenders. That's another reason I was (erroneously) 
> so sure it wasn't from 1952.  You could see it in the pictures on our web 
> site.
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