Chrysler’s Chrysler Honored with “The Amelia Island Award” at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance
Chrysler's Chrysler was honored with the prestigious "Amelia Island Award" last Sunday at the 20th Annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance last Sunday.
The award is given to "The Most Elegant Formal Sedan or Town Car." Photo highlights are below.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
A record 32,000 spectators came to see 310 classic and vintage automobiles and motorcycles.
The description for Chrysler's Chrysler.
The judges evaluating the automobile included Leslie Keno of Sotheby's and PBS' Antiques Roadshow (right) and Larry Moss, chairman of the Concours d'Elegance of America (left).
John Cuocco wore the perfect uniform for the show.
The automobile was a spectator favorite.
Roz and Howard greeted Dr. Fred Simeone of the Simeone Foundation Museum .
Howard and Long Islander GT Joey Limongelli
Driving to the awards tent.
Courtesy of Thomas Abbe.
Receiving "The Amelia Island Award" from Mark Becker, Vice Chairman of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.
Walter and Della Chrysler would be very proud.
Comments
Hi Howard:
Great job well done with your Chrysler Prize !!!
Cheers and Best !!!! Ron
Congrats!
Ron
Howard, The car looks amazing, great job and well deserved…...Wonderful time at Amelia.
See you soon.
GTJOEY
Howard, You have done a beautiful job restoring the Chrysler. I remember it when
it was in Centerport at the Vanderbilt home. Congratulations on your win at Amelia Island
Mazel Tov Howard. The car looks great in those surroundings. You must be extremely proud, as you should.
Rog
From Carlo C:
Congratulations on your award at Amelia Island.
Take care.
From Mark Dill:
Congratulations are in order for my friend Howard Kroplick. Now he has two big-time concours-winning cars!
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Howard,
Congratulatons and a big THANK YOU for all you do to preserve our automotive history in such a grand way !
Congratulations on a beautiful restoration. I would venture though that after restoring the Black Beast this was a snap.
Howard, Congrats on this award as you keep racking up concours wins. You have done a lot for the local history on Long Island as well collectable cars.
YEE-HAH! I KNEW you’d do it! Sam, III
Congratulations Commish…See you soon..Marty
The Chrysler looks fantastic on the field at Amelia Island. Cannot wait to see it back on the grounds of its original home at the Vanderbilt Estate. Congrats on a very well deserved award
Congratulations Howie & Roz: Glad to see that the Chrysler (& its owners) are so well preserved and continue to win prizes!
Congratulations & Well deserved! Walter Chrysler would be proud. Best regards, You Know Me, Barney Oldfield, Master Driver of the World & America’s legendary Speed King Great Great Nephew
Congratulations on the win and the continuing preservation of those GREAT AMERICAN cars.
From Rog P.:
Congrats on earning the CCCA and Amelia Island awards, Howard. Looks like you’re on a roll!
From Mike C.:
Congratulations on the Amelia Island show. Very exciting to see!
From Thomas Abbe:
It was a thrill to meet up at Amelia Island. Ethan and I had a great time.
Congratulations on your prize and the fine restoration of the Chrysler.
Here is a photo or two.
From Jan Hyde:
Great, well deserved.
Well deserved award for a great classic and to real gentleman!
The picture with GT Joey Limongelli. What car is behind you? It almost looks like yours,but I know it’ not,the license plate is different and so is the back window. It can’t be another 37 Chysler can it?same body style,maybe a Dodge or Plymout. If you see John,tell him he looks great,fits right in with the car,perfect. CONGRATS . Surprised to see Dr.Simeone.
Congratulations Howard & Roz for winning again! I’ll assume the Chrysler will be at the Greenwich Concours in May and I expect that Best of Show is certainly a possibility.
More than the awards which are great, I really appreciate the commitment to bringing these cars back to being a piece of art.
Thank you!
Congratulations - Good Show. After all that work we are glad you are being recognized for it. The car is a beauty.
Another Congrats for another win Howard!
While going through the results/award titles for Amelia Island show website, I was surprised to see they had the 1933 Dymaxion car #1 replica present. Hence, the connection to this week’s mystery photo! Another interesting Vanderbilt Cup link would be “The Camille Jenatzy Award”...
I also suspect if you were able to bring the ALCO as well you might have had a second award for the ‘Indianapolis Motor Speedway/Tony Hulman Award - FOR THE MOST HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT INDIANAPOLIS RACE CAR’.
Well done Howard I can’t wait to see it this summer Thank you for preserving and sharing all your treasures
Ted, the car in the back round behind Howard and Joey is a 1934 Packard V12 custom coupe body by Packard built to a LeBaron design. One of these coupes was sold new to a fellow , George Davidoff, who lived in Roslyn Estates (not the car in the photo) and that car is now in Bob Bahre’s collection in Maine. Approximately 3 of these custom cars remain.
Thanks Walt. I kinda though it was a LeBaron design,that’s why I said Dodge or Plymouth,didn’t know they do other cars too