Foreword

12/30/2017 Foreword
My brother and I in Geneva, on the occasion of my 70th birthday, in 2009; we found
the car sitting outside a garage near Geneva's restaurant, "La Perle du Lac";
Dad had paid $450 for the Chrysler in 1948; the current owner wants $90,000!
Repainted from silver-gray to baby-blue, she is nearing 80 years of age (2014) but is still going strong.
[ Photos (left): Yann Saunders collection; (right) © and courtesy J.-P. Schindelholz, Switzerland ]
Was it the many enjoyable rides I had on the back seat of the Chrysler, or - unknown to my father -
the secret driving lessons my older brother André (then aged 10) used to give me (then aged 9) at its
wheel? At any rate that first American car in my childhood probably was instrumental in guiding my
choice of automobiles in later life.
In 1952, I went back to school in Scotland where I attended the Vale of Leven Academy, then
Dumbarton Academy. As a matter of interest, so did F1 racing legend Jackie Stewart, born just a
couple of weeks after me! I mention him here because we have more in common than just high school;
like me, Jackie too moved to Switzerland ...but for different reasons! He and wife Helen moved into
beautiful Clayton House in Begnins, overlooking Lake Geneva, about 20 miles east of our own
[former] Eldorado in Chambésy. I used to bump into Jackie, with his sons Paul and Mark, at the
Geneva Auto Show held every year in March.
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