AlamoPA Mailing List: Fw: Fwd: TIDBIT

[Sallie Carlson (wacsc11945]

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From: Robert Ahrenkiel <gp-bob11 [at] att.net>
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On Monday, December 19, 2016 7:51 PM, "krndlake [at] aol.com" <krndlake [at] aol.com> wrote:

 

 

>             Roosevelt's
>             Limo
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>             HERE
>             IS A BIT OF HISTORY I BET YOU DIDN'T
> KNOW... 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, 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.
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>             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 in December
>             1941. 
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> Mechanics
>             are said to have cleaned and checked each
> feature of the Caddy well
>             into the night, 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
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> gangster's 1928 Cadillac Town
>             Sedan had 3,000 pounds of armor and 
> inch-thick bulletproof
>             windows. 
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> It also had a
>             specially installed siren and flashing lights
> hidden behind the
>             grille, along with a police scanner
>             radio. 
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> "Previous
>             Owner." 
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> Footnote:
>             The car sold at auction in 2012 for
> $341,000.00
>