No, for the 86th time, Gen. MacArthur did not have a Clipper staff car

Posted by su8overdrive On 2025/3/21 19:31:28

Noting one of today's Photo of the Day, this was thoroughly debunked in the late, great, much missed Special Interest Autos and elsewhere back in the late '70s. It seems a new, equally gullible generation has joined those losing their minds/memories or thinking so-and-so having ridden in a car like theirs makes it better or worth more.

Abetted by down home museum displays of olive drabbed, blacked out Clippers--some of them postwar models at that -- and the internet, a new generation of buffs, or a forgetful older one, believe MacArthur had a '42 Packard Clipper staff car. If not riding in a Jeep, MacArthur was occasionally chauffeured in a '42 Cadillac Series 75 limousine belonging to the owner of a Philippine sugar plantation.

Ike, Bradley and some other high brass in Europe did get '42 One-Sixty Clippers.