Presidential Limousines

ChiefChief Registered Users Posts: 24 Big grins
edited February 20, 2007 in Holy Macro
Cars from Presidents
President Taft

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  • ChiefChief Registered Users Posts: 24 Big grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    Chief wrote:
    Cars from Presidents Taft, FDR, Ike and Reagan

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • ChiefChief Registered Users Posts: 24 Big grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    Chief wrote:
    FDR
    President Eisenhower
  • ChiefChief Registered Users Posts: 24 Big grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    Chief wrote:
    Ike
    President Reagan
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    Chief wrote:
    Cars from Presidents
    President Taft

    Nice lot Chief, they keep those old cars in good nick don't they :D
    They just don't make them to last these days ... and man do they crumble when you crash them ne_nau.gif

    Thanks for sharing......... Skippy
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  • Mr. 2H2OMr. 2H2O Registered Users Posts: 427 Major grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    Hey Chief - where is the museum with these limo's? I love presidential limo's - they are absolutely fascinating custom cars!

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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    Great subject for GW's Birthday. Is Ike's car a Thunderbird? That looks more like his sports car than a limo...
    If not now, when?
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited February 19, 2007
    I think that is a Chrysler. 1955 or 56 maybe??

    Anyone know for sure? I think it is a Chrysler Imperial convertible - one of only two ever made
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  • wholenewlightwholenewlight Registered Users Posts: 1,529 Major grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    pathfinder wrote:
    I think that is a Chrysler. 1955 or 56 maybe??

    Anyone know for sure? I think it is a Chrysler Imperial convertible - one of only two ever made

    It's a version of the Chrysler Imperial convertible called the Parade Phaeton - three made (but possibly a 4th, some claim), one for New York City, one for Los Angles, and a Presidential Limo.

    Stuff of very little value that I happen to know about . . . . ne_nau.gif
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  • ChiefChief Registered Users Posts: 24 Big grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    wholenewlight wrote:
    It's a version of the Chrysler Imperial convertible called the Parade Phaeton - three made (but possibly a 4th, some claim), one for New York City, one for Los Angles, and a Presidential Limo.

    Stuff of very little value that I happen to know about . . . . ne_nau.gif


    Vehicles were at the Peterson Auto Museum in L.A. about a year ago.
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,962 moderator
    edited February 19, 2007
    Chief wrote:
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Nice pic, but that looks like a 50s vintage Cadillac to me. ne_nau.gif
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited February 19, 2007
    Me too, RS. 1952, 53 0r 54 Caddy maybe??
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    Mike,
    Mr. 2H2O wrote:
    Hey Chief - where is the museum with these limo's?
    - Mike

    Most of this stuff - oval office, cars, even Air Force One - are now located in the Regan Presidential Library, located just a couple miles off Hwy 23 here in Simi Valley, CA.

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  • rosselliotrosselliot Registered Users Posts: 702 Major grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    I have a picture from the clinton library in Little Rock Arkansas, and his limo is there. I swear, those windows are at least 4 inches thick....INCREDIBLE.

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  • mmrodenmmroden Registered Users Posts: 472 Major grins
    edited February 20, 2007
    Taft's car doesn't seem large enough to have supported him :)

    There's a hotel in Riverside that has a chair made specifically for him-- both me and my wife could sit in the chair side by side perfectly comfortably. He was a big dude.
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