Re: Gen. MacArthur's 8-45 limousine

Posted by su8overdrive On 2012/7/29 23:54:56

Thanks. I'd heard the 1946 or '47 Super or Custom Super sedan Harry and Bess Truman used as their personal car in Washington was dark blue, but don't know whether Packard, Coral, Atlantic blue. The above sounds interesting, but it's hard to imagine a car used by the Trumans not having some surviving documentation, some scraps of paper, something.

If not for some family investments, Truman would've been in the poor house or old soldiers' home, his only income after leaving the White House his old Army pension of $112.56 a month.

Truman was a class act, made some of the toughest decisions in Oval Office history, including the toughest single decision in human history. You'd think a grateful nation might've let him keep a used Packard.