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A bit of History!

 

 

Hours after Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941,

the Secret Service found themselves in a bind. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt was to give his Day of Infamy speech

to Congress on Tuesday, and although the trip from the

White House to Capitol Hill was short, agents weren’t sure

how to transport him safely.  At the time, Federal Law prohibited

buying any cars that cost more than $750, so they would have

to get clearance from Congress to do that, and nobody had time

for that. One of the Secret Service members, however, discovered

that the US Treasury had seized the bulletproof car that mobster

Al Capone owned when he was sent to jail in 1931. They cleaned it,

made sure it was running perfectly and had it ready for the

President the next day.

 

 

Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac V-8 "Al Capone" Town Sedan

Became the President's Limo December  1941

 

 

 

Mechanics are said to have cleaned and checked each feature of the

Caddy well into the night of December 7th, to make sure that it would

run properly the next day for the Commander in Chief. And run

properly it did. It had been painted black and green to look identical

to Chicago’s police cars at the time. To top it off, the gangster’s

1928 Cadillac Town Sedan had 3,000 pounds of armor and inch-thick

bulletproof windows.

 

 

 

It also had a specially installed siren and flashing lights hidden

behind the grille, along with a police scanner radio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 “Previous Owner…”

 

 

Footnote:  The car was sold at auction in 2012 for $341,000.

 

 

   

[LifeHiscost]

 

 

 

 

A bit of History!

 

 

Hours after Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941,

the Secret Service found themselves in a bind. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt was to give his Day of Infamy speech

to Congress on Tuesday, and although the trip from the

White House to Capitol Hill was short, agents weren’t sure

how to transport him safely.  At the time, Federal Law prohibited

buying any cars that cost more than $750, so they would have

to get clearance from Congress to do that, and nobody had time

for that. One of the Secret Service members, however, discovered

that the US Treasury had seized the bulletproof car that mobster

Al Capone owned when he was sent to jail in 1931. They cleaned it,

made sure it was running perfectly and had it ready for the

President the next day.

 

 

Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac V-8 "Al Capone" Town Sedan

Became the President's Limo December  1941

 

 

 

Mechanics are said to have cleaned and checked each feature of the

Caddy well into the night of December 7th, to make sure that it would

run properly the next day for the Commander in Chief. And run

properly it did. It had been painted black and green to look identical

to Chicago’s police cars at the time. To top it off, the gangster’s

1928 Cadillac Town Sedan had 3,000 pounds of armor and inch-thick

bulletproof windows.

 

 

 

It also had a specially installed siren and flashing lights hidden

behind the grille, along with a police scanner radio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 “Previous Owner…”

 

 

Footnote:  The car was sold at auction in 2012 for $341,000.

 

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1 minute ago, LifeHiscost said:

$341,000.

 

 

Sorry the original photos wouldn't paste.

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