History of Presidential Limos

[shagdrum]

From an email I recieved...

President Truman in the Lincoln made for President Roosevelt

1950 Lincoln with first bubble top - Eisenhower's idea

President Eisenhower in 1953 Eldorado

1961 Continental X100 - Kennedy was shot in this vehicle

1972 Lincoln - Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan

1983 Cadillac - Reagan

1989 Lincoln - Used by President George H. W. Bush

1993 Cadillac - President Clinton

2001 Cadillac DTS - President George W. Bush

Guess Who...

 

[Frasch]

haha nice very nice!!

 

[Titan]

Best ride goes to Kennedy.

 

[Calabrio]

Might as well just make this the distasteful Obama joke thread.


The Aging of Presidents
— Harvey Schwartz —

Much has been said about the aging of the President of the United States during their terms in office. Below are just a few examples (pictures on the left were taken their first year in office, pictures on the right were taken during their last year in off.

Eisenhower

Wilson

FDR

Nixon

Reagan

Clinton

George W. Bush


And now with state of the art computer imaging software, we can see what the future could look like after a term in office:

 

[TheDude]

The '01 DTS looks like it can take a pounding from an Abrams.

Redd Foxx wasn't distasteful, but funny.

 

[Joeychgo]

You got laugh out of me..

 

[2003lsv8]

childish!!!!!!! but funny.... I have to agree the DTS looks like it can take a beating. The Redd Foxx joke = ERROR 404 = FAIL!!!!!!

 

[foxpaws]

Kennedy's Continental always looks so different with the glass roof - everyone remembers it with the roof off, in Dallas.

 

[fossten]

"I'm comin' Elizabeth! It's the big one!"

 

[SoonerLS]

The '01 DTS looks like it can take a pounding from an Abrams.

It looks like it took a pounding from the ugly stick. I thought you couldn't make the DTS look any worse, and there they went...

 

[SoonerLS]

Kennedy's Continental always looks so different with the glass roof - everyone remembers it with the roof off, in Dallas.

AutoWeek had a few pictures of it in an article last year, with one taken from above and behind off the driver's rear quarter. You could clearly see the steps on the rear bumper and the hand-holds in the decklid for the Secret Service agents; from that angle, it just didn't look like the same car, although the caption indicated that it was taken not long before the assassination (JFK, et al, were in the car).