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The American Presidential Car Across the Decades
Marco Villa , Connecticut: Nov 21 2008
Made Popular Nov 21 2008
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The American Presidential Car Across the Decades

President Harry S. Truman in a Lincoln.

The American Presidential Car Across the Decades

President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a Eldorado on Inauguration Day 1953.

The American Presidential Car Across the Decades

The X-100 adapted from a 1961 Continental. President Kennedy was killed in this model car, after his death it has fitted with bullet proof windows and armor. The car weighed four tons and cost $200,000 even before the armor addition.

The American Presidential Car Across the Decades

1972 Lincoln used by Presidents Nixon, Carter, Ford and Reagan. Helping to shield President Ford from a 1975 assassination attempt took a bullet in a right side window during the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.

The American Presidential Car Across the Decades

1983 Cadillac Fleetwoods ended the decades long use of the Lincoln when it became the presidential care in 1984.

The American Presidential Car Across the Decades

The 1989 Lincoln used by George H. W. Bush.

The American Presidential Car Across the Decades

1993 Cadillac Fleetwoods for President Clinton.

The Cadillac 2006 DTS, current presidential limousine, went into service in 2001 and was updated for Inauguration Day in 2005.

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Jared
Montreal, Canada
Cool collection. I wasn’t knowing about the metamorphosis the top guy’s car had gone through. No doubt why known as the ”Cadillac One”.
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