Bruce W sends us the Astoria Clown Car - a rusty 1948 stretch Chrysler created In 1955 by Jack Daly and a group of civic boosters who formed the Astoria Clowns in Astoria, Oregon and purchased the car from a mortuary, painted it yellow, and transformed it into their Clown Car. The Clowns originally used their beat-up Chrysler as part of their act  to promote Astoria and campaign for the construction of the Astoria-Megler Bridge across the Columbia river - connecting Oregon with Washington.  The car became a fixture in parades in towns along the Pacific Northwest coast.  Then the car disappeared.  In 2015, the Clown Car was found in the desert in eastern Oregon and was brought back to Astoria where it was given a second life.
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