Old Cars Weekly

Chauffeur's Plymouth

After Lee Korejwo’s 1936 Plymouth De Luxe convertible coupe proved to the wrong car for its first owner, everything fell into place and its future became safe.

“This car was originally purchased by a family for their daughter to go to finishing school,” Korejwo said. “She took it in the fall and then she came home for the holidays. She really didn’t like it because (with) one seat, her friends had to sit in the rumble seat. The big kicker was that it didn’t have a radio, so they got her another car to go back to school.”

In the most-typical scenario, the Plymouth would then have been sold as a used car to a new owner or traded in — with a

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