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Mystery Friday Foto #8 Solved: “Chrysler’s Chrysler”- 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 LeBaron Town Car
Can you identify this old car in an old garage?
Identify;
- The year, make and model
1937 Chrysler C-15 Imperial Town Car. A custom one-off Town Car ordered by Walter Chrysler for his wife Della.
- Approximate date
The photo, dated 2012 was around the same time when the car was removed from the garage and ownership transferred to Howard Kroplick on April 4, 2012.
- Location of the garage
The curator's cottage garage at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium.
- Where is this car today?
The Kroplick Waterfront Garage in Roslyn for the past 14 years. In that time, the beautiful, one-off Chrysler has been restored and has been awarded multiple accolades and trophies including winning the Pebble Beach Concours an astonishing 2 times.
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Congrats to Frank Femenias, JeRita, Ray K., Steve Lucas (You're welcome Steve!), Al Prete and 14 people on Facebook for correctly identifying Chrysler's Chrysler.
Greg O. and Howard Kroplick
2012 -As seen in the Curator's Garage at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport
2012-Waterfront at Roslyn, Roslyn, New York
Chrysler's Chrysler sees daylight for the first time in decades!
Chrysler's Chrysler the first time it crossed the award stand at Pebble Beach in 2014.
Crossing again in 2024.
Chrysler's Chrysler keeping pace with the 1932 Duesenberg Model J Rollston Victoria Coupe during the 2024 Pebble Beach Tour d'Elegance.
The Custom Chrysler C-15 Imperial in 1937
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Bob Greenhaus
Mrs. Chrysler's Chrysler.
Suffolk Museum Barn Find/Auction
Ed Hyman
Was this how you found The Chrysler's Chrysler that I judged at Greenwich - maybe 15 years ago (?)
John Cuocco
Remember it well
Steven Vilardi
It is not a Super Bee nor is it a Road runner, and not a 300 but getting close. Should we ask Mrs. Chrysler over at Kings Point? I would consider it an inspiration for the later PT Cruiser.
Donald M. Smith
Chrysler’s Chrysler at the vandebuilt in Centerport
Robert Soule
The magnificent 1937 Chrysler Imperial limousine built for Mrs. Chrysler. It sure landed in the right hands!
Robert Bisciotti
Sam working on it back then.
I know that car
Robert Bisciotti
Walter Chrysler made this for Mrs Chrysler. The custom made chauffeured car with her daughter's initials on the door
SUCH a discovery, going there that day. Howard Kroplick could spot Gold under that dust.
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It’s “Chrysler’s Chrysler” - The 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 Town Car custom-built by Walter P. Chrysler for his wife, Della. Foto is of the car in the garage at the Vanderbilt Museum, where it sat unrestored from 1992 until Howard bought it in 2012. Picture was likely taken in late 2011. The car now lives, restored, at the Waterfront at Roslyn.
Source of my information is newsday.com. I have seen the car up close, and it is beautifully restored.
Thanks, Greg, for the softball for us oldtimers. That’s the 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 Town Car with body by LeBaron. The garage is at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum. The date is probably late 2011 or early 2012, just prior to it being transported to another garage at 55 Lumber Road in Roslyn.
The year, make and model:
1937 Chrysler Custom Imperial Town Car built for Mrs. Della Chrysler by LeBaron.
Approximate date of photo:
2011
Location of the garage:
Curator’s storage cottage of Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport, NY
Where is this car today?:
It was restored to its original glory by Howard & Roz Kroplick and resides within their collection on Long Island.
1937 Chrysler Imperial sedan town car, custom built for Mrs. Delia Chrysler. It was found at the Vanderbilt/Suffolk museum in Centerport in 2012. It was restored and currently owned by Howard and Roz Kroplick and resides in the garage in Roslyn today.
This rare 1937 Chrysler Imperial barn find was found in 2012, rotting away for decades at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum’s garage. The Chrysler was fully restored 2 years later by Steve Babinsky’s dream team in Lebanon, NJ, and is fully operational today. This one-of-one find now sits at Howard Kroplick’s Hempstead Harbor garage
https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/chryslers_chrysler_in_the_news
Sorry, my comment posted earlier than expected : )
I remember getting the car out of the Vanderbilt museum very well. Both Steve Babinsky and I chose to wear plaid shirts that day - popular in that era!
Hauling the car up on a strap up that hill was scary - if that strap broke and the car went rearwards it would have gone through about 40 feet of trees and wound up in Long Island Sound! If you see me holding and using a triangular wood brace it was because the Chrysler had no brakes! 5,000 lbs plus, no brakes. that wood under a wheel was what stopped it from rolling. Getting the car to roll into the trailer was interesting too, again no brakes to slow/stop it.
This is the part most old car owners never experience.
Walt