![]() As we bounced along in her pickup, she explained how her family’s farm had come to be the final resting place for so many automobiles. Ostensibly the family raises vegetables, hay, and horses, but their most conspicuous crop was vintage automobiles in every conceivable state of repair, which dotted the landscape.Ĭarey drove me down to the barn where the Chrysler in question was stored. ![]() Last November, I visited the Creason farm to investigate. She showed me an old Polaroid of the car, which, I had to admit, looked a lot like Harry’s. ![]() ![]() But at an event in Kansas City shortly after the book came out, I was approached by Carey Creason, an animal feed saleswoman from Kansas who insisted her father had bought Harry’s Chrysler back in the 1970s, and that the car was stored in a barn on her family’s farm. In Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure, my book about the trip, I mentioned that the ultimate fate of Harry’s 1953 Chrysler New Yorker, the car in which he and Bess undertook their excursion, was unknown. Unaccompanied by bodyguards or attendants of any kind, the former president and first lady drove 2,500 miles from their home in Missouri to the East Coast and back again. In the summer of 1953, Harry and Bess Truman, just five months removed from the White House, took a road trip. ![]()
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