Re: carforce number one
Posted by 58L8134 On 2015/3/6 18:08:47
Hi Guscha
What a great FDR photo, just look at him beaming, fully in his element! He just exuded confidence and good-cheer at a time when the country was in sore need of it. FDR is riding in a 1934 Twelve seven passenger Touring of the White House garage fleet. Note the door handles are the old ring-type.
Interesting Pierce-Arrow follows, of 1936-1938 model years. Convertible sedans of those late cars have the rear doors hinged on the B-pillar but this one has them rear hinged, looks to have roll-up windows on the front doors only. No open tourings or phaetons were in the factory body offerings. This is definitely a custom bodied car. Derham bodied a P-A of these years as a phaeton, this may be that very car.
On the other hand, Rockefeller is campaigning in a 1932 Standard Eight Series 902 Touring, identified by the single-bar bumper, chrome radiator shell and smaller diameter headlights without the 'crown' at the top. Why its nose-to-nose with another pre-war Classic Packard is anyone's guess.
Steve
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