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One of the highlights at this weekend’s auction at The Inn at St. John’s, presented by RM Auctions, is a unique 1939 Pontiac Plexiglas Deluxe Six ‘Ghost Car’. Built at a reported cost of ,000, the ‘Ghost Car’ was a pioneering Plexiglas collaboration between GM and Rohm & Haas, and holds a special place in the history books as the first full-sized transparent car to be built in America. Made of Rohm & Haas’s new Plexiglas acrylic material, fitted to a 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six chassis, the Plexiglas body exposes the car’s innards for all to see. Structural metal underneath was given a copper wash and all the hardware, including the dashboard, was chrome plated.

A highlight of the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair, the ‘Ghost Car’ went on a nationwide tour immediately after its display, later spending several years at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C before passing through a succession of Pennsylvania Pontiac dealers. Today, remarkably preserved and the only known surviving ?Ghost Car’ of two built, it is fresh to the market, offered at RM’s St. John’s sale for the first time since the early 1980′s. (Est. 5,000 – 5,000).

Held in conjunction with the renowned Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s, the upcoming RM sale ? formerly known as the Meadow Brook auction ? will provide a wonderful celebration of America’s rich automotive history with some 70 collector cars set to go under the gavel. Among the star attractions – no less than 13 Packards; nine Cadillacs; seven Fords; five Oldsmobiles; two Duesenbergs; and the eye-catching Pontiac ?Ghost Car’.
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