Rob Hall Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 I had a fun afternoon...skipped B-J and went to the Gooding & Company auction--some incredible '50s-60s European cars (a stunning Fiat 8V, a couple Aston Martins, Ferraris, a couple Mercedes), a couple '30s Packards and Rolls Royces, a Shelby GT350R (raced by Pedro Rodriguez), a unrestored Tucker, a Maserati MC12, etc. A nice relaxed small event. Afterwards went to the Scottsdale Pavillions cruise in--huge--all sorts of cars from '32 Ford hot rods to suede '50s cars to oodles of muscle cars and '50-60s big cars and lots of Mopies..quite a variety of cars showed up..first time I've been to that..a lot of fun...then dinner in Old Town Scottsdale. Great weather today..going to try and go to Russo & Steele tomorrow.
Rob Hall Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 The "Kennedy" limo, a 1961 Lincoln Continental X-100 was rebodied after the assassination. The job took about six months. President Johnson saw that it was the same shade of blue as the Kennedy car, and refused to accept that. The car was then painted black. This car served many presidents as stated. There is no "Only now resurfaced" about this car; nor was it destroyed. IIRC, I saw this car in the Henry Ford museum about 20 years ago in Johnson configuration w/ a roof.
Joe Handley Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 IIRC the roof was permanently attached to the car because of Kennedy's Assassination during the rebuild.
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