1967 Ghia with Checker bones in HCC
Sunday-January 06, 2008
Dan Strohl's story on the Ghia Centurion with a Checker chassis had me wondering if maybe James Frey had ghostwritten this piece instead.
The Hemmings Classic Car (February 2008) story reads like fiction. Ghia builds a special one-off limo based on Checker's 129-inch chassis with a 327 V-8. Unlike virtually every product that Checker built, there's nothing utilitarian about the Ghia Centurion. The chauffeur rides on leather bucket seats. There's a liquor cabinet, a telephone, and a 12-inch black-and-white television for passengers in the back. (It they could've stuffed a widescreen TV into the back of this car, they would've had the air wrench in their hands.
It's nice to know that collectors have saved it from the Great Outdoors.
The Hemmings Classic Car (February 2008) story reads like fiction. Ghia builds a special one-off limo based on Checker's 129-inch chassis with a 327 V-8. Unlike virtually every product that Checker built, there's nothing utilitarian about the Ghia Centurion. The chauffeur rides on leather bucket seats. There's a liquor cabinet, a telephone, and a 12-inch black-and-white television for passengers in the back. (It they could've stuffed a widescreen TV into the back of this car, they would've had the air wrench in their hands.
It's nice to know that collectors have saved it from the Great Outdoors.