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FDR preferred Fords exclusively for his personal use. They were outfitted with hand controls to overcome his polio handicap.

Harry Truman loved to drive his Chrysler Imperial that was garaged at Shangri La and his wife would purportedly point at the speedometer when he was speeding.

Lyndon Johnson used to drive at high speeds in Texas while drinking.

I think the one who doesn't drive is Trump. Given he is a New Yorker I wonder if he even has a driver's license. I lived without a car for eight years. It's a great feeling. Walking to work is the ultimate care free existence. However, that was back when the subways were in decent shape and still had express trains. I also commuted into New York City on the old Pennsylvania high speed mainline. The track paralleled the turnpike and I used to look out the window when the train was travelling 110 mph and the traffic jams.

Fortunately, today I live in a town were I can walk to any number of businesses so when I get home for the weekend the car sits which is good because the roads are so broken down driving sucks.

The Victory Parade of the Allied Forces on September 7, 1945. Packard Twelve passenger car Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov.
In the Victory Day parade on September 7, 1945, in addition to the Soviet troops, American, British and French troops, who were in Berlin to secure the occupation of Germany, took part.


source: albumwar2.com
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The commander of the U.S. Third Army, General George S. Patton, Jr., took no great pleasure in the end of the war in Europe; he already knew that despite his lobbying of many influential figures in Washington, D.C., he had no hope of being reassigned to the Pacific Theater to command combat troops there. As he put it to his III Corps commander, Maj. Gen. James Van Fleet, "There is already a star [MacArthur] in that theater and you can only have one star in a show."



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Some big ego's behind the scenes.

After presenting Zhukov and Patton on its own in a Packard, the below photograph shows the both alpha leaders united.
Therafter we have the honor to host another member of an European nobel house at PackardInfo. It is nobody less than Alfonso Battenberg, Prince of Asturias, who "died at the age of 31 as a result of a car accident." [Wikipedia]






images sources
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#2 - todocoleccion.net

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A couple of times we uploaded images, showing U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on an inspection tour of the Douglas Aircraft Company's factory.

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The following photograph claims to be taken at the same event but somehow FDR managed to change the vehicle.




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What year are these cars? 1939?

One has 120 on the side mount spare, the other is a twelve?

What kind of a hood ornament is that?

Not the best pictures, I posted these on the PAC forum.

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33000/m1/37/

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33000/m1/2/

And this video too,

https://vimeo.com/158415651

How many 1953 Henney did the US government use?

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/packard/executive/2265006.html

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/packard/patrician/2299276.html

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Let the ride decide, in front of the last pic FDR sits in a blue 1939 V12, furnished with special hood ornament. Today the car is shown at the Toyota Automobile Museum.




FDR or his staff had a partiality for individual hood ornaments. Take a look at this one, embellishing his 1932 Twin Six 905 (body style 570) with the New York governor's fleet insignia.




Sources
pic #1 - Wikipedia
pic #2 - Hemmings