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BTW Did you know that Mr. Nixon had been on a good footing with Soviet cars?



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Not sure I'd try that standing on the hood bit on a Packard. Must be the Russian cars were a bit more tank like after all.

In those early years Mr. Nixon hasn't been a political heavy weight.

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One or another tank would consider itself fortunate to be a bit more ZIS like.

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Good to know that he never walked alone.


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Oh no, there's more to come.


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I would like to construct a new hypothesis. There was one moment in time when the White House including several congressmen tried to control the fate of the nation from the hood of a Soviet car.
Do we see the moment of coining the term "nationhood"?


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Guscha

The "protective bonnet" of the Secret Service?

John Harley

John, as far as I see it is a common car without armoring. I think Howard (HH56) is correct in saying that the sheet metal was overproportioned in consequence of an underdeveloped technology along the lines of "a lot helps a lot".

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How to outperform two jetblack Packards One Eighty? Try to use a car twice as large!




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Before focusing on the above shown and doubtless wonderful Packards I would like to shoot a glance at the 1938 Cadillac V-16.

"...Two of these huge convertible sedans for 7-8 passengers were built by Fleetwood on a special chassis of 165" wheel base, powered by the mighty sixteen-cylinder engine. They were used up to the mid-fifties as parade vehicles and security cars by the occupants of the White House and their guardians..." [acc. to cadillacdatabase.org]

Dear Lord Keepers of the Privy Seal and especially sole heirs of Packard Twelve knowledge, if possible please spare me to tell that a Cadillac is just an opera showcase for bling bling but a Packard is a car for over-modest gentlemen and so on. Perhaps not for everyone but at least for me that turbine-smooth Cadillac is one of the crowns of US-built prewar cars.






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