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Lost but never found? (Upd. Yellow Peril still around)

Lost but never found? (Upd. Yellow Peril still around)

  • Lost but never found? (Upd. Yellow Peril still around)

Today it's exactly 75 years ago that famous aviatress Amelia Earhart became lost during a flight over the Pacific. Ever since that day in 1937 her disappearance continues to fascinate fans worldwide. According to one of the theories her plane was shot down and she was held captive at the Mariana-Islands on the charge of espionage. Some say she was buried in that prison. Others say disappeared to take on another identity. And there are many other theories. Perhaps we will never learn the truth although still attemps are being made to find her airplane.
Not many people know that Amelia also liked cars. When she sold her first plane she bought a 1922 Kissel Gold Bug, which she promptly nicknamed 'Yellow Peril'. Frequently she would let many children climb in and over the car while she drove slowly down the street.

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domenica luglio 1st, 2012

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02 Luglio 2012, 12:41
Ms Earhart's love of cars brought her to the christening of the 1932 Essex-Terraplane autos for Hudson Motor Co. and she was gifted serial number 2 in gratitude. She also owned a 1933 Essex-Terraplane convertible coupe and a 1936 Terraplane coupe.
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02 Luglio 2012, 02:35
Hidden in that photo is a story. Sometime in the 1940s, my late friend Fred Roe came across a Kissel Gold Bug in an orchard in eastern Massachusetts. It was reputed to have been Amelia Earhart's Yellow Peril. Corroborating the oral tradition was the fact that the car had no glass in the windscreen, as is the case with the car we see here. Fred purchased the car for some small sum of money, then sold it at a modest profit, all without moving it from the orchard. It is now restored and on display at the Forney Museum in Denver, Colorado:
http://www.forneymuseum.org/FE_AmeliaEarhartGoldBug.html

Amelia was never found, but the Kissel was...
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