This 1933 Chrysler CL Imperial Dual-Windshield Phaeton was bought new by racing boat legend Lou Fageol, “the world’s fastest man on water.” After about a year, Fageol had his shop fit the car with a 1930 Cadillac V-16 engine, no.

700132, along with associated adjustments to the chassis and suspension.

With its V-16 fitted, the Fageol Imperial next passed to Hollywood film actor Turhan Bey and subsequently to a student at Stanford University, who sold it in the early 1950s to the late, legendary Northern California collector and enthusiast Jack Passey.

Passey in turn traded the car to Earl Hill and Dick Wells, who sold it to Laurence Dorcy.

Better known to one and all by his favored nickname, Baron, Mr.

Dorcy was the grandson of Great Northern Railroad magnate James J.

Hill and lived the fabulous life of a millionaire eccentric.

Over the next 50 years, he would come to own the Chrysler two further times, always buying it back after he sold it.

Ken Daniel, a longtime friend and n...