As of Jan. 18, 2025, this is the information we have about this car:
[Feb.01.2017] Car #208 [NEW, 6/2009]is included in the numerical listing of survivors at the top of thefirst page of this section; I was contacted by one of the former owners, TerryBasey, who assumes the car is still out there, waiting to be 'found' again. Terry wrote: I was the owner of #208 for 14years; I don't see it mentioned. I was interested in Broughams since the age ofabout 10 and bought one of the original Revell models when they came out for a$1.00. #208 was complete, with all vanities, airsuspension and 37,500 miles on the clock. It had belonged to Howard Keck ... he hadseven, trading in four of them in 1962 for new Cadillacs. Bill Lerch purchased thiscar as the best of the bunch. I purchased it from him in 1975. I spoke with CyStrickler very frequently and bought my perfumebottle to complete the collection from the previous president of the BroughamOwners Association, before Strickler.I contacted Lanvinin the 80's (70's ?)who were sending me 6 atomizers they still had ... free!They were sent but never arrived ... Strickler was a pilot for Delta. He went to theLavin Company in France to find outwhat happened. They were very embarrassed and could not explain what happened to theatomizers that they did send. Likely someone in the postal service saw Lanvinpackagingand imagined valuable perfume worth stealing...I'd guess the atomizers wereviewed as junk and tossed out [In 1975, I too corresponded with the Parisheadquarters of the Lanvin organization and was able to get from them the'last' atomizer bottle.]
[Feb.01.2017] Car #208 [NEW, 6/2009]is included in the numerical listing of survivors at the top of thefirst page of this section; I was contacted by one of the former owners, TerryBasey, who assumes the car is still out there, waiting to be 'found' again. Terry wrote: I was the owner of #208 for 14years; I don't see it mentioned. I was interested in Broughams since the age ofabout 10 and bought one of the original Revell models when they came out for a$1.00. #208 was complete, with all vanities, airsuspension and 37,500 miles on the clock. It had belonged to Howard Keck ... he hadseven, trading in four of them in 1962 for new Cadillacs. Bill Lerch purchased thiscar as the best of the bunch. I purchased it from him in 1975. I spoke with CyStrickler very frequently and bought my perfumebottle to complete the collection from the previous president of the BroughamOwners Association, before Strickler.I contacted Lanvinin the 80's (70's ?)who were sending me 6 atomizers they still had ... free!They were sent but never arrived ... Strickler was a pilot for Delta. He went to theLavin Company in France to find outwhat happened. They were very embarrassed and could not explain what happened to theatomizers that they did send. Likely someone in the postal service saw Lanvinpackagingand imagined valuable perfume worth stealing...I'd guess the atomizers wereviewed as junk and tossed out [In 1975, I too corresponded with the Parisheadquarters of the Lanvin organization and was able to get from them the'last' atomizer bottle.]