[BITList] AL CAPONE'S CAR.

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> */A BIT OF HISTORY I BETCHA 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 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*
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> *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.*
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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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> *Footnote: The car was sold at auction in 2012 for $341,000.*
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