New Yorker’s New Yorker
Jeff Gregrow had a somewhat specific car in mind when he bid on a 1960 De Soto, and losing that auction led him right to it.
“I had been looking for an Exner car for a long time,” said Gregrow, whose Virgil Exner-styled 1956 Chrysler New Yorker Newport is featured here. “ … I contacted [the seller] and I said, ‘Do you have any others?’ He said, ‘Yeah. I’ve got a garage full of them,’ so I went up and I bought it from him.”
Although he’d done styling work for several automakers, Exner is probably most widely remembered for the designs he created for Chrysler’s corporate lineup beginning in 1955. From Plymouth through Imperial, those cars were a collective shock when compared to the models they’d succeeded.
