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by HistoryBuff
Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:47 pm
Forum: Series 1
Topic: Joan Baez flat-floor 1961 roadster nabbed by IRS
Replies: 4
Views: 3597

It was theonly one delivered in Carmel working back

But the dealer was in nearby Monterey so, if the listings are based in city it the dealership was in, it should say Monterey. She bought it off the showroom floor so it was not built to order as it would be if she had ordered one with her choice of exterior & interior colors. I will check the number...
by HistoryBuff
Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:44 pm
Forum: Series 1
Topic: Joan Baez flat-floor 1961 roadster nabbed by IRS
Replies: 4
Views: 3597

I checked on the data base and found one delivered to Carmel

Fun to use that data base, I don't know if it had outside bonnet catch. Chassis number 8789531 flat floor LHD was delivered March 13, 1962 apparently was red when new but now opalescent silver maybe now owned by someone in Murrell's Inlet SC. I had heard she bought the car in 1961 and her car was so...
by HistoryBuff
Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:31 pm
Forum: Series 1
Topic: Lindner-Nocker Lightweight rebuild--is it on orig. chassis?
Replies: 1
Views: 3204

Lindner-Nocker Lightweight rebuild--is it on orig. chassis?

I know this car was rebuilt some years ago butI just dound a description on a site called imcdb.org which confuses me. Was the mangled wreck rebuilt or built atop an un-used chassis as this writer on imcdb,org suggests? That writer says " 7,000 hours of work (easily believable) and apparently 90% of...
by HistoryBuff
Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:13 pm
Forum: Series 2
Topic: Pirana show car--was it ever sold cheap from a used car lot?
Replies: 1
Views: 2461

Pirana show car--was it ever sold cheap from a used car lot?

I saw this silver Bertone show car myself at a lot in recent years in Palm Springs called Highway 111 Motorcars, I think for $76,000. In 1967, this prototype was made in conjunction with The Daily Telegraph on a new 4.2-litre 2+2., Marcello Gandini at Bertone redesigned the car into an "ideal car" w...
by HistoryBuff
Sun Jan 25, 2015 3:48 pm
Forum: Series 1
Topic: Joan Baez flat-floor 1961 roadster nabbed by IRS
Replies: 4
Views: 3597

Joan Baez flat-floor 1961 roadster nabbed by IRS

That "news" is 51 years old but I am car historian trying to find out what her dark gray LHD flat floor--which she bought new in Monterey Calif. in 1961--was sold for in '64 after the government nabbed the car, a house in Carmel-by-the-sea and acreage from the singer. Her crime? She was against the ...