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How rare?

Frankie..I know of two and only one of which I have seen in person..these and the Town Sedans are not your most common body styles...both are quite unique..the TS shares chassis with the D24 but the Limo...she big much larger framed vehicle..

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just look at the size of that back door and glass..is that a seat back you see in the glass itself..I believe you have found yourself a limo...the luggage rack is a give away also as these puppies were used as depot hacks shuttling people and baggage to and from hotels and railheads...very much surprised too see the rack still on that car..

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I think this one is still in a yard in the area. Not much left of her though

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Tim, is the way the doors open also a giveaway??

Town sedan front and rears would open the same way???

Limo and others, suicide doors???

Yes Shel, TS opens same direction all doors, that is the give away plus the absence of a rear quarter glass..

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I second James Douglas' motion. The first junkyard car is a Suburban. You can see the top of the full-size second seat through the window.

The Suburbans had a full-size second seat. Post-war Suburbans had a jump seat in the back. 49 and later had a full size third seat that folede forward like a station wagon.

The other Mopar long wheelbase sedans were either 7-passenger sedans or limos, with a full back seat and jump seats in the middle.

(A limo is a sedan with a glass partition between the front seat and the back. Actually only the top part of it is glass. The Cadillac Series 75 sedans had a partition behind the front seat, but no glass. Funeral parlors would have the long wheelbase sedans.)

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My book shows, 46-48, 27,800 Town sedans, and 3,698 7 passenger sedans produced, compared to 333,911 4dr Custom sedans, and another 61,987 Deluxe sedans.

1 Town sedan at the yard. Some 4dr. 1 Club coupe. Saw no 7P.

I have a 41 and a 47 town sedan in captivity here on the ranch..

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Back about either 02 or 03 a guy offered me a 48 Chrysler Limo for free, just come get it. He only lived about 10 miles from me. Said it ran when he got it. He was going to restore it but had not touched it in about 4 years or so, so just wanted to get rid of it. I did do a little thinking about it for about a day, then decided I didn't want it. Just wasn't my cup of tea, so I passed on it. Don't know what ever became of that car.

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Where I saw one of the Dodge or Chrysler limos in years past was in the fleet of a local

funeral home. A "family car".

This is just a regular Chrysler sedan.....big but not as large

as a limo.

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