Asking | $750,000 USD The first of 18 production cars; a highly significant mid-century ChryslerThe only example understood to have been finished in its particular black-and-red exterior color schemeAcquired in 2017 by the consignor from its second ownerExhaustively researched, retains numbers-matching engineFrame-off restoration to factory specifications completed in October 2023 while retaining original interiorThird in Class at the 2025 Pebble Beach Concours d’EleganceHistory file with copy of original build card, copy of first Swiss registration, correspondence, restoration documents, and copies of period Chrysler materials One of the first Chrysler show cars created by celebrated designer Virgil Exner and built by Italian coachbuilder Ghia, the appropriately named Chrysler Special debuted at the Paris Salon in October 1952.

Constructed on a New Yorker chassis shortened by six inches, the prototype featured smooth sides, unusually high wheel arches, round headlights, a broad, trap...