Scattered about the presidential limousine

 

All who live there on Pennsylvania Avenue to follow the inauguration of new President Barack Obama will be impressed by the Cadillac limousine-called "beast" that fans Car-called "four-wheel tank".

Car limo of the new U.S. president Barack Obama is certainly very serious. Weight is how much exactly? Both GM and Secret Service are not disclosed, but presumably, when the vehicle using the tire Goodyear Regional RHS. It is commonly used for Vietnamese cars and heavy mid-field. Car fans the expected weight of about 10 tons (!).

All those interested to know that this car up to 20cm thick doors, bullet resistant - standard military also said on the RHS tires Run-flat type - that can allow vehicles add tens of km even after being shot hole. Car windows to 15cm thick.

The limo is enough room for 7 passengers, including the president. Seat and seat in cabin, separated from the chamber followed by a glass. Every Monday is the third seat facing the rear, while the third line has two seats - one for president and one for others. The two seats can be adjusted independently. Between the two seats in the chamber after a folding table.

The car-called "beast", or "four-wheel tank", the legacy of the best from the limousine made for ventilation America during the past 70 years.

The first limousine vehicles are not standard on the car market is made for President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939, the nickname "Sunshine Special" (sunshine), because the hood is almost always open.

This car by Brunn & Co. company. manufacturing, with the goal of giving the safety and high comfort. With more than 4m wheelbase, the car 'Sunshine Special' with an armored body, the oversized door opening to back flip (like the Rolls-Royce of the UK) and the bulletproof glass.

Date 8/12/19 41, a day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, United States Secret Service has used an armored limousine once owned by the mafia boss Al Capone to take the president to Capitol Hill speech, "National hatred," the famous . The car was seized the U.S. Treasury from Al Capone and after the catch is stored in a parking lot until this day.

No information is confirmed officially, but it is another disaster that begin after Roosevelt died, President Harry S. Truman not like GM products, because he had refused to use the car's automotive manufacturers in the campaign for president in 1948. Thus, he replaced the Cadillac 'Sunshine Special', opening up the brand's glory Lincoln - Owned by Ford.

Ford ordered production of a 1950 Lincoln Cosmopolitan limousine style (with 3.7 m wheelbase) and the Secret Service to buy cars for clients as normal. Still convertible models to facilitate the serving president in the parade on the streets, but the sample Lincoln has had some changes in 1954, with the transparent roof. This zone type can be designed at the request of President Dwight Eisenhower, after a rain he encountered in Richmond . Then, the hood is raised that the people lining the street can not see the president.

Best known perhaps to include the Lincoln Continental 4 door convertible 1961 President John F. Kennedy when he was murdered on 22/11/1963. The car, called X-100, is considered one of the most beautiful presidential limousine in American history. The car is the company Hess & Eisenhardt in Ohio "degree" from a 1961 Lincoln Continental, which lasted more than 80cm to look like limousine. However, the car can not bulletproof.

Metal belts in the rear seat is right place to hold the president to stand up in the parade (like Kennedy did in a visit to Germany in summer 1963). Also, can raise the rear to the crowd saw a better president. The engine is a V8.

After the tragedy in Dallas, a bullet-proof armored vehicles; welding sedan; furnished a new, more modern air conditioning system, electronic communications, bulletproof glass; painting the outside to remove traces of the murder.

After decades of Lincoln occupancy, Cadillac again for the White House in the early 80's, under President Reagan. It pairs two 1983 Fleetwood life, also by the company Hess & Eisenhardt in Ohio "Degrees". As first-line treatment of the Cadillac Fleetwood, the Hess & Eisenhardt car lasted more than 40cm high and raise the roof nearly 8cm.

Whether the form is not pretty, but two presidential Fleetwood sitting in good visibility, thanks to large windows, but safe as thick bulletproof glass 60 li.

Upon "retirement," one of two Fleetwood returned to GM, Cadillac's parent corporation. Later, in 1993, GM for the crew, "In-range bullet train" (In the Line of Fire) loan. The rest are on display at the Reagan presidential library in the state California .

The president's limousine Obama is the most secure, in terms of structures and equipment. It can disable most of the offensive chemical and biological, as well as conspiracy to attack by grenades. It is also rumored that the car carrying dozens of generators.

"Not a car that can compete with this car," the spokesman said David Caldwell of Cadillac.

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