Dirk Pitt's Private Collection

Note: [Book(Chapter)] indicates the book in which an item first appears,
and the reference to being acquired is made in another book.
 

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Dirk Pitt receives a considerable inheritance from his grandfather. After paying the estate taxes, he chooses to invest in classic cars and aircraft.

 Inca Gold (25)
Flood Tide (24)

The ground floor of the hanger houses his classic automobile/aircraft acquisitions and acquired souvenirs.

The collection includes:

1947 Ford club coupe, the first car purchased in his collection. Color: Maroon.

Dragon (35)

1936 German Maybach-Zepplin town car. An acquired souvenir. Color: Silver with black fenders.

 A Mediterranean Caper (5,TALLY)
Vixen 03 (50)

A 1929 Ford Tri-motor plane known as the Tin Goose.

[Iceberg (12), (19)]
  • Purchased in Keflavik, Iceland.
  • Raise the Titanic! (25)
  • Pitt is flying the plane in an air show benefit for disabled children when attacked by Omo Kanai flying a WWI Red Fokker Tri-wing.
  • Valhalla Rising (23, 24)

    • 1912 Renault open-drive landaulette. An acquired souvenir from the Titanic.

    Vixen 03 (50)

    1966 AC Ford Cobra. Color: Red.

    Night Probe! (26)

    1950 Jensen four-door convertible. Color: Straw and beige. Purchased at a car auction for $45,000.00.

    Night Probe! (37)

    A railroad Pullman car with the letters Manhattan Limited painted in gold on the side.

    		[Night Probe! (83)]
  • An acquired souvenir.
  • Deep Six (22)
  • Sits on a short section of track.
  • Treasure (23)
  • Uses it as guest quarters when friends and visitors stay with him.
  • Valhalla Rising (44)
  • Giordino often borrows it for the night when he wants to impress one of his string of lady friends.
  • Valhalla Rising (44)
  • Becomes the residence of Summer and Dirk Jr.
  • Trojan Odyssey (15)

    • 1948 French Talbot-Lago sports coupe with coachwork by Saoutchik. Color: Blue. The car is worth $200,000.

    Deep Six (15)
  • The car is nearly destroyed in an explosion.
  • Deep Six (44)
  • Dirk Pitt is working on restoring the car.
  • Cyclops (8)
  • Color: Metallic blue.
  • Dragon (26)

    • 1921 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost with coachwork by Park-Ward.

    Deep Six (22)

    1925 Isotta-Fraschini. Color: Red. Italian built, with coachwork by Cesare Sala, the red torpedo-bodied touring car sports long, flared fenders, a disappearing top and a coiled cobra on the radiator cap.

    Deep Six (22, 66)

    1951 Daimler convertible. British with Hooper coachwork. Color: Silver-gray with metallic maroon fenders.

    		 Cyclops (8)
    Inca Gold (25)

    An antique cast-iron bathtub with an outboard motor attached.

    		[Cyclops (36)]
  • An acquired souvenir.
  • Treasure (23)

    • 1930 L-29 Cord towncar. Color: Burgundy body with buff fenders and a buff leather-covered roof over the passenger's compartment that is separated from the driver seat by a divider window.

    Treasure (26)

    1932 Stutz towncar. Color: Turquoise-green.

    Dragon (20)

    1939 540-K Mercedes-Benz sedan.

    		 Dragon (26)
    Flood Tide (24)

    A Messerschmidt Me-262A-la Luftwaffe jet fighter. An acquired souvenir.

    Dragon (74)

    Avions Voisin sedan, built from 1919 until 1939 in France by Gabriel Voisin. Color: Bright rose-magenta. An acquired souvenir.

    		 Sahara (65)

    1953 Allard J2X sports car. Color: Fire engine red.

    Inca Gold (25)
  • The car has been entered in vintage car races and driven by Dirk Pitt in men's events and Loren Smith in women's events.

  • Inca Gold (25)
    		•

    1984 Jeep Grand Wagoneer.

    Inca Gold (26)

    1936 Pierce Arrow berline (sedan body with a divider window).
    Color: Dark blue.

    Inca Gold (32)

    1936 Pierce Arrow Travelodge house trailer. Color: Dark blue.

    		 Inca Gold (32)
    Shock Wave (27)

    A tall Haida Indian totem pole. A gift from Mason Broadmoor.

    Shock Wave (59)
  • A beautifully carved eagle with spread wings graces the top. Then, in descending order, is a grizzly bear with its cub, a raven, a frog, a wolf, a sea creature, and a human head at the bottom that remotely resembles Pitt.
  • Shock Wave (59)
    		•

    Marvelous Maeve, a trimaran built by Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino and Maeve Fletcher. A souvenir retrieved by Al Giordino.

    Shock Wave (59)
  • Resembles the upper half of a sailboat tied to the buoyancy tubes of a rubber boat (a mast rises in the middle with palm fronds woven into a sail) and rests next to the small bath tub.

    • Flood Tide (28)

    1929 Duesenberg convertible sedan. Color: Orange body with brown fenders.

    Flood Tide (24)

    1936 Ford cabriolet hot rod. Color: Metallic plum maroon.

    Atlantis Found (25)

    1938 Packard towncar. Color: Dark green.

    Valhalla Rising (36, 58)

    1931 Marmon town car with V-16 engine. Color: Dusty Rose.

    Trojan Odyssey (15)

    1918 V-8 Cadillac.

    Trojan Odyssey (15)

    1955 Rolls Royce Hooper-bodied Silver Dawn.

    Trojan Odyssey (15)

    1906 replica of the Vanderbilt Cup racer, an antique Staney steamer. Color: Red.

    Polar Shift (36)

    Additional autos referred to without specific details/different year:

    1952 J2X Allard

    Shock Wave (26)

    Bugatti.

    Shock Wave (27)

    1931 L-29 Cord.

    		 Shock Wave (27)
    Flood Tide (24)

    Delahaye.

    Shock Wave (27)

    Hispano-Suiza.

    Shock Wave (27)

    Marmon (possibly the car addressed in Trojan Odyssey).

    Dragon (20)

    Another Packard.

    Shock Wave (27)

    Another Pierce Arrow.

    Shock Wave (27)

    Another Rolls Royce (possibly the car addressed in Trojan Odyssey).

    Shock Wave (27)

    Another Stutz.

    Shock Wave (27)

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