Peter Rickinson came to our attention not long after buying his first American car, a 1954 Chrysler Imperial, which we featured in the September 2019 issue. As we reported at the time, he had mainly enjoyed classic Rovers before a holiday in Cuba opened his eyes to American cars. He was primarily drawn to the subtler glamour of the top-end models of the Forties and early Fifties. Even then, it wasn’t entirely by design that he ended up with the Imperial. He’d really been seeking something a little older, but he fell in love with it and that was that.
He still hankered after a Forties car, and he found a 1949 Buick Roadmaster Sedanet to fill his double garage. He’d seen a 1948 Chrysler New Yorker convertible for sale for some time which really took his fancy, though, and once he committed to buying it, he had to contemplate the matter of finding storage or parting
