Lindsay's car collection
1937 Packard limousine, chassis: 138, Seven-Passenger Sedan body: CD1091, the first car of "custom
luxury in the lower price range" representing the transition of the long-wheelbase car from exclusivity to popularity,
one of four known to exist I found it in a barn in Northern Michigan in 2000.
1947 Spartan Manor, mobile home,
http://www.spartantrailer.com John Paul Getty's original creation to give working people the kind of elegant lifestyle that he enjoyed
1951 Studebaker Commander Starlight Coupe, the first modern car, an early "V8", manual transmission,
aqua color, streamlined with its bullet-nose, wrap-around rear window, designed by Raymond Loewy, Virgil Exner, and
Bob Bourke
1953 Spartan Imperial Mansion, riveted aircraft aluminum, I can honestly say that I live in a Mansion
once owned by John Paul Getty, and built by him with the most pride that he ever had in any of his enterprises.
1953 Royal Spartanette, the economy model of the Spartan line, built like an airplane but in the canned-ham
style.
1959 Airstream Land Yacht trailer, open interior, single axle
1965 Dodge Coronet station wagon , 440ci engine, a muscle car wagon, the beige color is
named: "Champagne", dad's car
1965 Oldsmobile Cutlass F-85 Holiday Coupe hardtop, white with red interior, an exemplary
clean design of the mid '60's, grandma bought it new and gave it to me, it has 30,000 miles on it
1969 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe, the "Stingray"modified with 1981-style front end, custom high-rise
hood, smoothed-over tail end, 350 engine, 4-speed, black, the essential Corvette design, all models since then have been derivative
of it
1970 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado, largest engine ever in a production car; 500 cubic inches, knife-edged
styling by Bill Mitchell's GM Design Studios, I call it "The White Camilia". With a black leather
interior, I've got a Black Angus cow hide to replace the vinyl top and a pair of black horns to mount on the
front, mine looks just like this:
http://www.chooseyouritem.com/classics/files/103000/103149.html
1972 Oldsmobile Toronado, 455 cubic inch engine, black, I'm going to cut the top into the Targa roll
bar style, open, with the windshield and side glass cut down
1973 Dodge Coronet station wagon, sky blue with blue interior, dad's other car
1977 Oldsmobile Toronado XS, last luxury-sized American car ever designed, a rare limited production
model, with sharp corners in its' wrap-around rear window glass, as though it were designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright, all black, with dual exhaust: mufflers plus resonators
1982 Chevrolet G20 "ChevyVan", white/blue interior, windowless cargo/party van
these cars are my ideas for future
projects
1912 Ford Model T
1929-31 Oldsmobile Viking, first mono-block V-8
1935 Cadillac Fleetwood V-16
1936 Packard V-12
1939 Ford (or earlier) chassis for a hot rod, 1939 was the last year that Henry held out with
his old-fashioned cable brakes: "the safety of steel from pedal to wheel". Hydraulic brakes are the most troublesome
long-term maintenance problem and I'd like to have one car that didn't have them
1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan 4-door sedan model 9EH, Lincoln's only fastback, I'd build the hidden headlights
that engineers planned but didn't have ready in time for production.
1955 Chevrolet Corvette, replica of the original body but with a tubular-steel frame and chassis components
from a late-model Corvette
1957 Chrysler Imperial with Hemi engine, Chrysler's "Forward Look"
1957 Mercury, the longer, lower and wider shoebox design
1959 Pontiac 4-window sedan, for its appearance of extraordinary width, accentuated
by its flat top, the one I want is in Needles, Calif. I'm just waiting for the owner to die so that I
can buy it from his kids.
1968 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine, my friend Dave Brown in Kingman, AZ, would sell this to me.
1970 Mercury Marquis convertible
