While the Ferrari was Lennon’s first car, it was not his most famous. He is probably best known for his multi-colored Rolls Royce Phantom V limousine. That car is currently on display at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, British Columbia. The staff had to remove the doors from the museum entrance in nineteen eighty-seven in order to bring the car in.

They put the car on display every year for a few months during the winter. They are unable to keep the car on display all year long because of its large size and the large crowds that come to see it.

On New Year’s Day, Braswell Galleries in the American state of Connecticut auctioned off another one of John Lennon’s cars. It was a nineteen seventy-two green Chrysler station wagon that once belonged to him and Yoko Ono.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono holding a 'bed-in' in Amsterdam on March 25, 1969. They were protesting the US war in Vietnam

The Braswell Galleries sold the car for only five thousand five hundred dollars. Braswell Galleries also auctioned off the white suit that John Lennon wore on the cover of the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album. That sold for forty-six thousand dollars. And the suit jacket he wore in the film “Imagine” sold for eighteen thousand dollars.

December eighth marked the thirtieth anniversary of John Lennon’s death.

Toni Morrison

DOUG JOHNSON: Our listener question this week comes from China. Jali Liu wants to know about Toni Morrison, one of America’s most famous and respected fiction writers. She has written nine novels, many essays and lectures and several children’s books.