1955 Chrysler C-300 Hardtop Coupe
Offered by RM Auctions | North Palm Beach, Florida | December 1, 2012
The John Staluppi Collection, also known as the Cars of Dreams Museum, is a very large collection of American cars of the 1950s and 60s (mostly). Well, the whole thing is going under the hammer at no reserve on December 1st. I really like Chrysler 300s and I wanted to feature one – but I couldn’t choose just one because there are a number of them – nine of them to be exact. They are the “Letter Series” cars – every year Chrysler tweaked the design and changed the letter at the end of the “300.”
This was the first of them, the 1955 C-300. Technically, Chrysler built it to dominate NASCAR, which it did, but they had to build road cars too. It uses a 5.4-liter V8 making 300 horsepower, hence the name. Only 1,725 were built. Estimate: $75,000-$100,000. For more info, click here.
Update: Sold $88,000.