nice video of this car driving in Paris streets !!
From my records/ notes 6 proper Royales #41-100 Either Packard bodied Proto. > Fiacre Coupe > Berline > Weymann Coach > Destroyed with total rebuild c1931 OR a brand new car in 1931 EITHER WAY 1933 Napoleon Coupe de Ville - Retained > Schlumpf Museum 41-111 Esders Roadster > Binder Coupe de Ville > Various owners > Harrah > William Lyon > VW 1999 approx. 8 mil. 41-121 Weinberger Cabriolet Fuchs Germany > Cheyne USA 1940's > Ford Museum 1950s 41-131 Park Ward Saloon Foster > Various > Shapespear USA 1940s > Schlumpf Museum 41-141 Kellner Coupe Retained > Briggs Cunningham > Miles Collier 1986 > Hans Thulin 1987 paid $10 mil. USD > Meitec Corp. 1990 > private Collector Spain 2002 41-150 Berline de Voyage Retained > Briggs Cunningham > Various > Bill Harrah > Jerry Moore > Tom Monaghan 1986 > Blackhawk 1992 > Lee Kun - Hee (been for sale several times from 1980's to 1990s and is it still for sale ? ) 1 possible Prototype chassis ? - ex. Harrah > Netheralnds/ Belguim ? 2010 being rebuilt 1 bitsa Esders Rep. - Built on a Alstrom chassis > Schlumpf Col. And a few replicas
Thanks for that. I also had the Binder CdV with VW and the Kellner car in private hands, though I didn't know where.
Fantastic car, the scale of it is impressive. Back in the 80's there was one I used to see in a private club in Burlingame, CA.
41141 (which I has the privledge of riding in once!) went to Collier, who sold it to Japan, then it sold again...no idea where now.
My parents were members of Briggs's museum. Annually he'd throw a members party and bring out the Royale, the ex-Fangio 250F, his 8C2300, etc and give rides (not in the 250F, of course, but Otto Zipper would blast it around a hastily laid-out oval in the parking lot. I really miss Briggs and his museum. All his staff- Joyce, Gene, Doug, etc. were with him for decades.
It was on the short list for my first LA trip back in the seventies. I still have the brochure and postcards. The folks there were so nice that I still remember them.
