Equipment
Chrome wire wheels, dual sidemounts with mirrors, Pilot Rays, Gray leather padded roof, rollup divider, smokers kit, outside head pipes, mesh hood sides. Reputedly chassis 2574 but no numbers are discerble on the frame or the firewall. Concours older restoration now showing some age, particularly the interior trim around doors. Drivers door rattles. Shadowed windshield frame chrome, yellowing whitewalls, some paint lifts in creases and joints. First owned by Shirley Burden, with known history since. Restored for the Imperial Palace in the 90s.
Market commentary
Sold at the Hershey Auction in 2007 for $945,000 and variously described as a Berline and Formal Sedan before being gussied up with the present Torpedo Berline terminology. The only one of its body style. The restoration, however, is coming apart and with no sign of any numbers except on the engine mount its componentry is suspect. That makes this price a reasoble reconciliation among rarity, condition and history, even if it falls short of the consignors hopes.