“I saw this car on one trip to Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday, 18 September 1976 when the Lennon’s were heading back to NYC after staying at the Copley Plaza Hotel. I was only able to take a couple of pictures of John and Sean through the Chrysler wagon’s windows.”
— Harold Montgomery, Photographer
“We went to a garage located in the basement of the adjoining apartment building, the Mayfair, where we picked up the ‘company car’, a battered, dark green Chrysler station wagon.”
— Fred Seaman, Former Assistant
“John and Yoko were thinking of leaving the city altogether and Greenwich, Connecticut was discussed..
My wife’s parents lived there then, so my wife and her mother arranged for a real estate agent to show them some houses in the area. I drove John and Yoko there in their station wagon.”
— Bob Gruen, Photographer
“I remember that car very well as I did a lot of driving in it.”
— May Pang, Former Assistant
“In the summer of 1978 or '79, I was making a road trip west with my family when a station wagon went roaring past us on the interstate. At the wheel was a white man with glasses, a beard, and hair past his collar; in the passenger’s seat sat an Asian woman with long black hair; and in the backseat frolicked a little boy about three years old. ‘That's John Lennon!’ I exclaimed.”
— J.R. Jones, Writer
“Once John was in the car, it was surrounded. The driver managed to take off only to be caught by a red light 30 feet away. Everyone madly ran out into the street and surrounded them again. I’m sure the people driving in the back of John’s car are still wondering to this day just what the chase scene was with the green station wagon in front of them!”
— Tempy Snow, Writer
“Way back in the spring of 1978, I was crossing West 116th St and Broadway when I noticed that the large green station wagon, sitting at the red light on West 116th St, had three people sitting in the front seat, two heavily bearded men, with a small Asian women between them. I suddenly recognized the Asian woman. It was Yoko Ono! I looked at the guy riding shotgun and I realized I was staring at John Lennon. As the station wagon turned downtown onto Broadway, without thinking, I gave chase. John saw me running alongside the Chrysler. He waved and gave me a look that said, ‘Please, cool it. You’re gonna cause a scene.’ Ooops, sorry, John, you’re probably right.”
— Binky Philips, Fan
“Thus it was that one day in the second half of May, 1972 John and Yoko piled into the back seat of their dark green Town & Country station wagon and headed west, with their assistant Peter Bendry at the wheel.”
Yoko Ono & John Lennon, Montreal 1969
“We were going to withdraw. And we were withdrawing while we were going cross-country. Can you imagine that? It was a station-wagon Peter Bendry, our assistant, was driving, and we were trying to get off drugs. And it was really frightening! So we’re standing on a corner looking at each other and saying, ‘OK, we’re going to get off drugs.’”
— Yoko Ono
