[BITList] Roosevelt's Limo

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    */HERE IS A BIT OF HISTORY YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW.../*


                *Hours after Pearl Harbour 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 safe 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 armour *
                *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 sold at auction in 2012 for $341,000.00.*


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